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$\"\"$ A few things of interest. The Lead asked whether robots could ever replace clergy<\/a>. It\u2019s science fiction now, but will it always be?<\/p>\n

Some Turks took offense at what they perceived to be a patterning of a LEGO version of Jabba the Hutt\u2019s palace on the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul<\/a> (not Constantinople). It was, they suggested, an insult aimed at Islam, even though the Hagia Sophia\u2019s origin is as a church.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a mash-up imagining what the trailer for the original Star Wars movies might have looked and sounded like if J. J. Abrams had made them<\/a>. I don\u2019t buy it. I didn\u2019t see a single lens flare! But it is still worth looking at.<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AhPz-Hr4nQA<\/a>\n

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