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Fortunately, there’s a “Star Trek” quote for every occasion

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No, I DON’T want to “retire the redshirt way”

Billboard for Independent Health featuring one of their insurance agents in their trademark red shirt, with the headline "Retire the redshirt way."

Whoever came up with the slogan for Independent Health clearly didn’t watch any classic Star Trek, because the ways they retired “red shirts” on that show were horrifying…

By the way, if you haven’t yet read John Scalzi’s Redshirts, or better yet, listened to the audiobook version read by Wil Wheaton, do it!

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My favorite observation about RDJ playing Doctor Doom in upcoming Marvel movies

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AC/DC meets the attack on the Death Star

The video below has been making the internet rounds, but I wanted to make sure you saw it — two of the 1970s’ greatest cultural creations: AC/DC and Star Wars, with scenes from the attack on the Death Star from Episode IV and Thunderstruck from AC/DC’s 1990 album, The Razor’s Edge!

This video is only the latest of a long series of classic rock/Star Wars mash-ups…

But wow, Thunderstruck’s a favorite…

I’ll close with one of my favorites, Princess Leia’s Stolen Death Star Plans, a parody of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band:

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This wizard shreds

“A wizard never bails, nor does he wipe out. He shreds precisely as he means to.”

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If at first you don’t succeed…

Fortune cookie fortune that reads “If at first you don’t succeed, try two more times so that your failure is statistically significant.”
Thanks to Tracy Ingram for the find!
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Steamboat Willie’s trolley problem

The classic “trolley problem” meme illustration, but with Mickey Mouse as “Steamboat Willie” at the helm of the streetcar.

The Steamboat Willie version of Mickey Mouse has moved into the public domain, so why not the philosophical domain as well?