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Cool Filmz: Fire in the Sky Review — A Logger, a UFO, and One Very Bad Night in Arizona
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- Written by: Matt DeReno
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I recently came across an old review I wrote back in 2007 for CoverUps.com, and it felt like the perfect artifact to dust off and add to the Cool Filmz collection.
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TechGnosis: Could Consciousness Live Somewhere Else?
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- Written by: Matt DeReno
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There are certain ideas that feel normal only because we have lived with them for so long. One of them is the assumption that consciousness belongs to biology as we know it: brains, neurons, blood, oxygen, carbon chemistry, and all the familiar wet machinery of life on Earth.
But what if that assumption is too small?
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Bingham's Notebook: The Bingham Estate
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- Written by: Matt DeReno
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The House Where the Notebook Became a Warning
Filed Under: Locations, Lawrence Bingham, The Gold Box, Majestic Twelve, 1983 Murders
Related Entries: Dr. Lawrence J. Bingham, The Gold Box, Malcolm Kane, The Archive of Enlil
Spoiler Advisory: This entry contains lore details connected to The Midas Protocol and the hidden history behind Call of the Minotaur.
Some places in The Midas Files are important because of what they contain.
The Scratching Post: What Comes After the Minotaur?
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- Written by: Matt DeReno
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Finishing a book is supposed to create a sense of closure.
After spending years writing, revising, correcting, formatting, and finally publishing Call of the Minotaur, I expected to feel as though I had reached the end of a very long road. In some ways, I did. The book was finally out of my hands and available to readers, which still feels a little surreal after living with the story for so long.
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The Funny Newz: Tech Millionaire Opens Gentrifried Chicken Concept
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- Written by: Matt DeReno
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WILLIAMSBURG, N.Y. — Describing it as both a “personal calling” and “an enormous untapped market,” technology entrepreneur Preston Vale announced Monday that he is combating gentrification in Williamsburg with a new chain of luxury restaurants called Gentrifried Chicken.
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Cool Filmz: I am watching Star Wars in Machete Order and It Changes Everything
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- Written by: Matt DeReno
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I still remember sitting in a dark movie theater in the summer of 1977, clutching my popcorn as the words “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…” appeared on the screen.
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Funny Newz: Did Stonehenge Suffer A Y0K Problem?
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SALISBURY, ENGLAND — World-renowned scientist Dr. Frederick Diffendorfer of the Archaeological Institute for the Preservation of Pedantic Study plans to publish a groundbreaking paper this summer on Stonehenge, shortly after resolving what his legal team continues to call “an unfortunate plagiarism misunderstanding.”
The Funny Newz: Space Aliens Buying Up U.S. Beachfront Property — Officials Say Everything Is Fine
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CLEARWATER, FLORIDA — Interstellar aliens are rapidly buying up U.S. real estate and business holdings at what critics are calling an alarming rate, The Funny Newz has learned.
The Funny Newz: Mojave Officials Crack Down on Cheap Alien Monuments
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MOJAVE DESERT, CALIFORNIA — Adrian Covarrubias of the Mojave Desert Resource Conservation and Development Council was rattling across the desert Thursday in a government-leased Jeep Commander when he spotted yet another suspicious alien artifact on the distant horizon.
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The Funny Newz: Chattering Teeth Robot Wins $1 Billion Defense Contract
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BLACKSBURG, VIRGINIA — Dr. Emilio Disaronno, a one-armed senior robotics researcher at the Virginia Polytechnic School of Robotics, says the 2024 International Robotics Competition was rigged after a novelty chattering-teeth robot beat his highly advanced killing machine for a major defense contract.
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CoolFilmz: Is Die Hard A Christmas Movie? Yes—It's Home Alone for Grownups
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“Ho. Ho. Ho. Now I have a machine gun.”
That is not exactly the kind of line you expect from a cozy holiday classic. It is not Bing Crosby by the fireplace. It is not Jimmy Stewart rediscovering the meaning of life in Bedford Falls. It is Hans Gruber reading a message scrawled on the body of one of his henchmen after John McClane has officially begun ruining the Nakatomi Plaza Christmas party.
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Bingham's Notebook: Mortimer Vanterpool’s Powers Explained
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- Written by: Matt DeReno
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Welcome back to Bingham’s Notebook, where we explore the hidden corners of The Midas Files.
For this entry, I wanted to take a closer look at Mortimer Vanterpool, one of the strangest and most dangerous figures in The Midas Protocol. This may not be the flashiest topic for longtime readers, but clarifying Vanterpool’s abilities helps me understand how he works as a character — and how best to use him as the series continues.
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- Tech Gnosis: Boeing’s Starliner Returned Without Its Crew. What Does That Mean for NASA?
- Cool Filmz: Terminator 2: Judgment Day — An Action Sci-Fi Ace
- Bingham's Notebook: Building the Caves of Baghdad
- The Funny Newz: Space SUVs Here - 2024 "Abductors" Sighted
- Bingham's Notebook: Time Travel in The Midas Files — The Foggy Room Theory
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