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comicbook.com

5 More Great Recent Sci-Fi Movies Nobody Talks About

Ranking of five underappreciated modern sci-fi films worth revisiting: Life, Colossal, James vs. His Future Self, Totally Killer, and The Endless, topping the list. It argues these titles deserve far more recognition than they get, having been overshadowed either by genre oversaturation, limited studio backing, or straight-to-streaming releases rather than any lack of quality. Each entry gets a short case for why it excels—from Life's effective horror execution to Colossal's blend of kaiju spectacle and personal drama to The Endless's unsettling low-budget craft—making the piece a handy watchlist for genre fans wanting picks beyond the usual 80s/90s nostalgia.

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Screen Rant

10 Best Sci-Fi Books Of The Last 10 Years

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www.buzzfeednews.com

The 2010s Have Broken Our Sense Of Time

The 2010s marked the shift from the internet as a discrete destination to an omnipresent algorithmic feed woven into daily life, with platforms like Instagram and Twitter replacing chronological timelines with engagement-based algorithms that fundamentally altered how information, politics, and culture reach us. This transformation—enabled by smartphones, streaming services, and social media's evolution—created a disorienting temporal experience where past and present collapse, making figures like Trump the ideal vessel for such a system while spawning cultural backlash (vintage watches, vinyl records, digital detox rhetoric) that ultimately fails because the internet has become inseparable from physical reality. The essay argues that what defines the decade isn't any single technology but the complete merger of our online and offline identities, creating a perpetual state of algorithmic fragmentation that keeps us perpetually scrolling, reacting, and unable to escape.

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movieweb.com

8 Modern Sci-Fi Movies That Will Someday Become Cult Classics

A roundup piece nominating eight 2010s-2020s sci-fi films — including The Martian, High Life, Godzilla (2014), Underwater, Annihilation, Edge of Tomorrow, The Invisible Man, and M3GAN — as future cult classics, arguing each blends genre conventions with distinctive artistry, divisive tone, or emotional depth that could earn devoted fandoms over time. It's less a ranked list than a case for why each film's particular weirdness or ambition (from Mark Watney's potatoes to M3GAN's sassy menace) sets it apart from typical studio sci-fi. Worth keeping as a watchlist with actual arguments attached rather than just titles.

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blog.jquery.com

jQuery 1.10.0 and 2.0.1 Released | Official jQuery Blog

jQuery released versions 1.10.0 and 2.0.1 simultaneously, aiming to synchronize features between the 1.x branch (which supports older browsers including IE6-8) and the 2.x branch (modern browsers only). The releases include improvements like relaxed HTML parsing, increased modularity allowing custom builds to exclude certain methods, fixes for browser-specific bugs like IE9's iframe focus issue, and numerous bug fixes across Ajax, selectors, DOM manipulation, and event handling.

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Ecommerce-Platforms.com

Weekly Design News Roundup - 17 May 2013 - Design Reviver - Web Design Blog

This article showcases 27 exemplary ecommerce website designs from 2024, analyzing what each does well visually and functionally—from The Sill's natural plant-focused aesthetic to Via Copenhagen's innovative page-by-page transitions. Beyond the examples, it identifies key design principles for effective ecommerce sites: responsive mobile design, strong user experience through intuitive navigation, and clear calls to action that guide visitors toward conversion. The piece emphasizes that successful ecommerce design doesn't require massive budgets but rather thoughtful choices that align visual appeal with usability and brand personality.

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net.tutsplus.com

What’s Hot in 2013: Our Picks | Nettuts+

This article surveys emerging technologies and frameworks expected to gain traction in 2013, compiled from predictions by Nettuts+ staff members. The piece covers backend technologies like Laravel 4, PHP 5.5, and Node.js; frontend tools like Backbone.js, D3, and responsive design; databases including MongoDB and RethinkDB; development environments such as Sublime Text 2 and Brackets; and services like Stripe and Travis CI. The overarching theme emphasizes industry maturation toward standardized practices and the growing viability of JavaScript-based full-stack development, particularly through Node.js and related frameworks.

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bootiemashup.com

Bootie - Best of Bootie 2012

I'm unable to provide a summary of this content. What you've shared is a promotional page for a music compilation album with track listings and download options, rather than an article or written piece with argumentative or informative content that I could meaningfully summarize.

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Eric Garland

Letter to a future Republican strategist regarding white people

Eric Garland, a college-educated, affluent, white, small-business-owning suburban Republican from a Mayflower family, explains why he and voters like him—the GOP's supposedly core constituency—are not voting for Republican candidates. He details specific policy failures and hypocrisies that have alienated him: the party's documented opposition to science and climate action despite observable environmental damage in his own state, its false claims about American healthcare superiority while workers die of preventable diseases, its disastrous management of the Iraq War, its decades-long failure to actually reduce deficits despite constant promises to do so, its moralistic opposition to gay marriage after heterosexual Baby Boomers destroyed the institution themselves, and its pervasive contempt for anyone outside its base, exemplified by Romney's dismissal of 47% of Americans as dependency-seeking parasites. Garland warns that the Republican Party cannot win national elections by insulting and mischaracterizing educated, hardworking Americans across racial and ideological lines, and offers the party three choices: drastically moderate its platform, disband and reorganize, or accept decades of electoral defeat.

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Mashuptown.com

Mashuptown.com: Best of BOOTIE 2010

Bootie released their 2010 best-of compilation in both continuous and unmixed versions, featuring work from mashup producers Adrian and Mysterious D along with bonus tracks and a Rio-themed CD. The post highlights "We No Speak Americano," a megamashup by Mashup-Germany and Faroff that layers multiple hits including "Everybody," "Ray Charles," and the Backstreet Boys into a single track.

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www.nytimes.com

Log In - The New York Times

After a failed attempt to repeal "don't ask, don't tell" as part of a larger military bill, supporters reintroduced it as a standalone measure, which attracted support from four Republican senators—enough to reach the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced voting could begin as early as Saturday, though Republicans threatened to delay proceedings through amendments or to block other legislation like the New Start treaty in retaliation. The shift to a narrower bill proved strategically effective by putting political pressure on senators who had previously cited procedural concerns to oppose the measure.

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ReadWriteWeb

10 Chat Widgets to Consider

This article reviews ten embedded chat widgets for websites, evaluating each on features like ease of setup, design, and functionality, with examples ranging from MeeboMe and Zoho Chat (praised for simplicity and polish) to ParaChat (criticized for dated appearance and intrusive ads). The author acknowledges that while chat widgets enable real-time engagement with visitors, they carry tradeoffs including potential page slowdown and distraction from site design, so implementation should be tailored to individual website needs. The review concludes by encouraging readers to test these options themselves and suggest alternatives in the comments.

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