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I have been on the following mass transit systems (think “subways” more than “buses”):

How about you?

We have a couple of Star Wars fans to thank for the following Jedi-riffic duel.

Help me figure it out by voting in the new poll on the Soul Cookie home page.

Then again, it looks like somebody’s looking for a sarcophagus:

Cooper: SG-1 will go on

Don’t count Stargate SG-1 out just yet. Though SCI FI Channel has cancelled the long-running series , the show’s producers are hard at work looking for a new outlet for the story to continue, executive producer Robert C. Cooper told GateWorld exclusively.

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SG-1 Ends Run; Atlantis Back

SCI FI Channel confirmed that it will not renew its record-breaking original series Stargate SG-1 for another season, but will pick up its spinoff series Stargate Atlantis for a fourth year. SG-1 aired its 200th episode on Aug. 18, and the SF series is the longest-running SF show on American television.

Read the entire thing here.

Coming on the heels of the brilliantly funny 200th episode, the sting is especially pronounced.

Break out the cigars: Scott and Jenn are parents to a newborn again.

Josh Wagner arrived today at 8:42 a.m. EDT via Cesarean.

Scott tells me that everybody is doing very well.

“Jenn’s in recovery now,” he said during a phone call minutes ago. “She’s already feeling a hundred times better than when [Josh's brother] Kyle was born.”

Josh’s arrival came several hours earlier than Scott and Jenn had anticipated.

Late last night the hospital called and moved the time of Jenn’s surgery up by several hours, Scott said. That meant they had to head out in the 5 a.m. hour.

Please join me in offering congratulations to Scott and Jenn!

The editor in me finds this hilarious:

TORONTO—It could be the most costly piece of punctuation in Canada.

A grammatical blunder may force Rogers Communications Inc. to pay an extra $2.13 million to use utility poles in the Maritimes after the placement of a comma in a contract permitted the deal’s cancellation.

The full scoop, including the passage of text with the extra comma, is available at the Fort Frances Times Online.

I would so totally go to a gym that let me do this:

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