Dr. Shaun Duke, Professional Nerd

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Are Zombies People? — The Morality of Zombies

An unusual question rings its ugly head.  Earlier this week, I had a discussion with a guy who believed that morality in a post-zombie-apocalypse world was absolute.  That is that the lines are clearly drawn:  zombies are bad, humans are good, and “killing” zombies is not a moral issue.  There are huge problems with this […]

Video Found: Lazy Teenage Superheroes

(Thanks to SF Signal for the discovery). Amateur video meets Kick-Ass meets Heroes meets teen comedy.  Throw in some fantastic visuals and you end up with a pretty awesome short movie!  I’m so jealous… Here’s the video (after the fold): Awesome, no?

New Poll: If you had super powers, how would you use them?

The new poll can be found on the left (third widget down).  It is divided into the following fun categories: For good! For neutral purposes! For evil! Detailed answers are much appreciated, of course, but since polls make it hard to do that, I decided to test your morality (in the poll) and give you […]

Poll Results: Do you think SF/F is going to have a good year in 2011?

The results are in (obviously), and they are overwhelmingly optimistic.  Is that a good thing?  I sure hope so.  It’s early in the year, but I’d like to think that 2011 will be a year without someone proclaiming the genre dead (or something like that).  We’ll see how those thoughts pan out in six months. […]