…from Paperback Swap: “Great story about two empaths from different species who must work together to find common ground and avert interstellar war. Enjoyed the character development (human and alien).” “This book was a very good read for me. The characters were good and well thought out. The author took the homage of walking in …
Tobermory Light, on Lake Huron. More photos here.
…why can’t they be used to search for Bigfoot and Nessie? See my post at Futurismic!
Behold the North Korean Random Insult Generator.
Islands in Lake Huron, between South Baymouth (on Manitoulin Island) and Tobermory, Ontario. More photos here.
…and make a list of some of the planets that may exist in other solar systems. I’ve posted about it at Futurismic. (Rather than copy my posts from there here, from now on I’ll just make a note when I post something over there–apparently the searchbots and webspiders don’t like duplicate content.)
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Good news for future space travelers: the world’s first demonstration of robotic surgery in a simulated micro-gravity environment takes place this week, in a collaborative effort between SRI International and the University of Cincinnati. On four parabolic flights September 25 to 28 aboard a NASA C-9 aircraft (nicknamed the “Weightless Wonder“), a human surgeon will …
Sunset over Lake Huron, seen from Thessalon, Ontario. (More photos here.)
In computers, we have software and hardware. Jokingly, the human brain is sometimes called wetware. Up next: pulpware! OK, technically it’s hardware–wires, sensors and computer chips–embedded in paper or cardboard. A spiral of conductive ink can be a speaker, or a touch sensor. Two layers, and a page can tell when it is being bent. …
I haven’t been posting a photo of the day because I took so many photos on our recent driving trip to Ontario that I’m a little burned out on photography. So instead, I’m going to start posting some scenes from our vacation, beginning with this view of a very small part of Lake Superior from …
Harlequin, the world’s biggest publisher of romance novels, is going to start making all of its new titles available for download on the Internet – 120 titles a month. Will more “respectable” publishers follow suit?
