"The Strangest Sights in Google Earth"…

…can be seen here, courtesy of PC World. The Badlands Guardian is the coolest, I think, although I also quite like the giant pink bunny and the World War II bomber caught in flight.

Nanotechnology marches on…

…to the soccer field. Near-microscopic robots playing soccer. Is this a great time to be alive, or what?

And the first shall be…first

A few years ago I wrote about the effect of birth order on personality, a topic of particular interest to me as the youngest of three boys. At the time I noted that birth order has been studied since early last century, when psychologist Alfred Adler suggested that an only child may become over-protected and …

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Photo of the Day: The Bubblesaurus

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More on Heinlein

Still more remark on Robert A. Heinlein, this time by NASA’s head of legislative affairs, Bill Brunner: The first real novel I ever read was Rocketship Galileo. After that, I read as much Heinlein as I could find. I can honestly say that, as a young black male raised by a single mom, RAH shaped …

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SF Canada site updated

I’ve posted the latest update to the SF Canada website. Our big feature this time around is an interview with Bantam editor Anne Groell, conducted by Celu Amberstone. There’s also a short piece of fiction from Ahmed A. Khan. Of course, you can always get the latest news from SF Canada members (now with more …

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Photo of the Day that Actually WAS Taken Today: The Cactus

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Photo of the Day that was Actually Taken on Canada Day: Lady Bug, Lady Bug

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The proposal for William Gibson’s new novel

Yesterday I submitted two novel proposals to my agent, Ethan Ellenberg (well, three, actually, but only two were new). One is for a sequel to my upcoming novel Marseguro, tentatively titled Terra Inseguro, and one is for a fantasy novel tentatively titled Magebane. (The third is for a sequel to Lost in Translation, which DAW …

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The Heinlein Centennial…

…is upon us! The celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Robert A. Heinlein takes place in Kansas City this weekend. You can find out all about it here. It’s certainly got an impressive guest list: NASA Administrator Dr. Michael Griffin Spider Robinson, co-author (with Robert Heinlein) of Variable Star and much more …

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Dragons and turkeys and midgets, oh my!

This week’s CBC Web column… ******* Did you hear about the 42 members of the Cambodian Midget Fighting League mauled in a match against an African lion? How about the mummified fairy discovered in Derbyshire? Or, closer to home, did you know the world’s last surviving scientist specializing in the study of dragons lives in …

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Sorry, Mom and Dad

“If you want to really hurt your parents, and you don’t have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts.” – Kurt Vonnegut Jr.(Via Ficlets Blog.)