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7-Yr Old Arlington Boy with Leukemia Becomes Arlington’s Bat-Kid
The Everyday Heroes of A City Pull Together To Help A Superhero
President Obama and Star Trek’s Nichelle Nichols Flashing Vulcan Salutes. In the Oval Office.
When Nichelle Nichols, best known for her groundbreaking role as Lt. Uhura in Star Trek, visited the White House for Black History Month last February, she and the President didn’t just get their photo taken together in the Oval Office. They did one in which they gave Vulcan salutes.
LulzSec’s Ryan Cleary Back In Jail – For Contacting Sabu
Ryan Cleary, the British teenager arrested last year for his involvement with the notorious LulzSec “hacktivist” hacking gang, is back behind bars after breaching his bail conditions.
Dr. Peter Jensen Debuts Open Source Tricorder
Tricorders are devices used, among other things, to determine what ails a patient. Yeah, it is a pretty wild notion that one single device can do such a thing. There have even been applications previously on the market resembling a tricorder on your very own smart phone! Though once an organization by the name of CBS, found out it was not associated to Star Trek itself, it was discontinued on the Android market. There are still a couple of applications mimicking it for the iPhone and other such devices today, but they prove to not be as functional.
Could Romeyka (Ophitic) Greek Be Wonder Woman’s Dialect?
Probably not literally so, but this archaic Greek dialect, preserved in the folds and nooks of the rugged Black Sea side of Asia Minor, may be as close as any living person will get to hearing Themiscyran. After all, only a little over 100 kilometers west of Trabazon, the heart of the Romeyka-speaking area, is Aretias, the island formerly sacred to Ares, where Amazons were alleged to have worshipped; and another 200 kilometers along the coast is the river Thermodon (???????? or more recently, Terme), next to which the original Themiscyra was built.
Warner Bros., Seigel & Shuster Estate Duke It Out over Superman
Warner Bros. access to the iconic Superman comic book character is currently a matter of heated legal debate. Last Friday, Warner Bros., who wholly owns DC Comics, filed a brief before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals explaining why the estate of co-creator Jerry Siegel shouldn’t be allowed to execute a copyright termination notice on the studio’s rights to the iconic hero.
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