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Luxembourg has honored Hugo Gernsback, creator of Amazing Stories, the world’s first science fiction magazine (although he preferred the term “scientifiction,” and namesake of the Hugo Awards for best science fiction, with a postage stamp.

Today’s SF headline: Integrated Testing Of First Airborne Ray Gun Completed.

The Guardian takes a sneak peak at Sony’s remarkable new e-book reader. Hey, I like paper as much as the next guy–but what’s really important about a book are its words, not how they’re presented. I get impatient with people who dismiss e-books out of hand because “you can’t read them in the bath” (so …

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No, I don’t feel threatened. Why do you ask?

From Reuters: Mars Travel Hazard: Electric Mini-Tornadoes.

It’s spring, the time when a young girl’s (or boy’s) heart turns to thoughts of…swings, slides, and merry-go-rounds. At least, that’s the case with the young girl I know best, my daughter Alice, who has been talking about playgrounds ever since the snow started melting. I’m sure her desire to visit one is all part …

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It took 40 years–but it’s up!

Well, at least it will feel longer…

Has the “holy grail” of earthquake prediction been discovered?

Ray Bradbury speaks words of sense to a presidential commission reviewing George W. Bush’s proposal for returning humans to the moon and advancing on to human exploration of Mars.

Seems a new rock Opportunity has found on Mars has cosmic portent.

How can I not point you to The Geek Hierarchy, when I qualify for the pinnacle of geekdom as identified thereon?