…or at least your picture, in Bigelow Aerospace‘s test inflatable space module, launching later this year. If all goes well with Genesis II, as the spacecraft is known, your picture or other memento will orbit the Earth for years, with on-board cameras streaming images of the floating conglomeration of stuff back to the ground for …
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Photo of the Day: Glass, Light and Dark
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Aurora Award finalists
I’ve been remiss in not posting the Aurora Awards 2006 finalists for best Canadian science fiction and fantasy–but there they are now: Best Long-Form Work in EnglishMeilleur livre en anglais Migration (Species Imperative 2), Julie E. Czerneda (DAW Books, May/2005) Cagebird, Karin Lowachee (Warner Aspect, Apr/2005) Mindscan, Robert J. Sawyer (Tor, Apr/2005) Silences of Home, …
Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa, men have named you…
A Japanese scientist has recreated the Mona Lisa’s voice.
Another staple of science fiction becomes reality
If I had a nickle for every time someone in a science fiction story “opaqued the windows” at the touch of a button, or did something equivalent, instead of drawing old-fashioned drapes, I’d…well, I’d have quite a few nickles. Now electronic drapes have become reality. UPDATE: Technovelgy.com has the lowdown on an early SF reference …
Photo of the Day: The Tower
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A very cultured food
For the first couple of decades of my life, I didn’t know what yogurt was, nor could I understand why anyone would eat it. For a large swath of the world, this probably would have marked me as a barbarian, because yogurt has been eaten and enjoyed for a very, very, very long time. In …
Crib sheet on Christianity for confused secularists:
From holyoffice: “The time has come for some kind of crib sheet for the confused and frightened, a handy, easy-to-use reference guide for identifying some of the key denominations, terms, and concepts in Christianity.” Which he then goes on to provide. Hilarious!
A headline I never expected to see:
“Sting to Release Album of Lute Music.”
Belated Photo of the Weekend: The Best Seat in the House
A tender and touching moment (literally) from Regina Lyric Light Opera‘s production of Candide over the weekend, as I, playing the Governor, make my feelings known to Maximillian (played by Jeff Sawatsky), convinced as I am at this moment that he is a girl. No, really. (Photo by our director, Robert Ursan.)
Photo of the Day: Going to Seed
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Alien spaceships in northern Saskatchewan?
As a teenager I was quite Mulderish regarding the spaceshippiness of UFOs, but the older I get, the more skeptical I get. Thus reports of strange glowing vehicles skimming a northern Saskatchewan lake mainly make me think, “What the heck would alien spaceships want with a northern Saskatchewan lake? Pickerel?” But, nonetheless, northern Saskatchewanians are …
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