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Harlan Ellison Sues For "Star Trek" Episode 483

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday March 17, 2009 @07:31PM from the dangerous-visions dept.

Miracle Jones writes "The ever-quotable speculative fiction writer Harlan Ellison has launched a lawsuit against Paramount and the Writer's Guild West for rights to residuals surrounding his famous and award winning 'City on the Edge of Forever' episode for the original Star Trek series. Ellison, recently featured in the documentary 'Dreams with Sharp Teeth,' said that 'The Trek fans who know my City screenplay understand just exactly why I'm bare-fangs-of-Adamantium about this.' Regarding his lawsuit, he had this to say: 'The arrogance, the pompous dismissive imperial manner of those who "have more important things to worry about," who'll have their assistant get back to you, who don't actually read or create, who merely "take" meetings, and shuffle papers — much of which is paper money denied to those who actually did the manual labor of creating those dreams — they refuse even to notice... until you jam a Federal lawsuit in their eye. To hell with all that obfuscation and phony flag-waving: they got my money. Pay me and pay off all the other writers from whom you've made hundreds of thousands of millions of dollars... from OUR labors... just so you can float your fat asses in warm Bahamian waters.'"

Graphene Sheets Get Easier To Manufacture 81

Posted by kdawson on Sunday January 18, 2009 @12:42AM from the can't-be-too-thin dept.

grunaura writes "South Korean researchers have devised a way to create graphene sheets one centimeter square using a hydrocarbon vapor on heated nickel. It's touted as being more efficient than the current process where graphene sheets are pressed, and there is evidence that 'the quality of graphene grown by chemical vapour deposition is as high as mechanically cleaved graphene.' Graphene is relatively new, but not to Slashdot. This round of news highlighting the technology focuses on the bendable nature of graphene sheets, as opposed to the memory applications or capacitive properties discussed here previously. These films are the closest we have come to superconductors at room temperature."

Comment Cool, but... (Score 1) 215

by Castorvelu on Thursday November 13, 2008 @02:43AM (#25743673) Attached to: Saving Energy Via Webcam-Based Meter Reading?

What's the point of trying to save energy if you spend so much energy trying to know how much you spend? Having a webcam 24/7 online, probably a small computer behind, some router, PLUS the energy that was needed to produce all this stuff -- that's insane! Cool geeky idea, but think about it: why don't you make some real effort for the planet and give yourself a 2-minutes exercise a day?!?

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