Ruefull goodbyes

Firefly Support reports that a Firefly movie is now certain. Adam Baldwin, who played Jayne, has confrimed this on the Official Fox board (which is still around). Being a movie this will take longer, it is expected to be ready in 18 months.

A DVD release of the series is set for release later this year.

Or how to predict the succes of your Marriage in several easy equations. These researches believe they have a mathematical model of marriage.
Can Psychological applications of dynamic nonlinear models work? Apparently, because by now they are able to predict who will get a divorce with 90% certainty. From the Chronicle of Higher Eduction

Joss Whedon's 'anti-Trek drama' Firefly, by many called the best new sci-fi series, met with an untimely end last year despite making more money than Whedons two other shows Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. A hit with the critics and many internet users, the program was Foxed by being preempted, not promoted with episodes shown in a peculiar order (with the Pilot show as the last episode!) Several episodes weren't shown at all, but now the British ScifFi channel has bought the entire series and starts showing it beginning May.
The moderator of the official Sci-fi UK board confirmed this today. Fans are already hoping that the previously unaired episodes will leak across the pond.

A review of thousands of declassified government documents and interviews with former policymakers shows that U.S. intelligence and logistical support played a crucial role in shoring up Iraqi defenses against the "human wave" attacks by suicidal Iranian troops. The administrations of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush authorized the sale to Iraq of numerous items that had both military and civilian applications, including poisonous chemicals and deadly biological viruses, such as anthrax and bubonic plague.

Interesting - of course it's a bit of a downside that you can't even start using the stuff before they come running and take it back.

US Diplomate resigns over Iraq Policy

"Throughout the globe the United States is becoming associated with the unjustified use of force" says John Brown who joined the State Department in 1981.

Eh? Man arrested for wearing a Peace T-Shirt? fascinating....

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