…I read something like this. There are no Utopias, online or off.
This is a favour to Neil Gaiman…
…whom I’ve never met, although I was there when he won his Hugo Award at the World Science Fiction Convention in San Jose with the most direct and to-the-point Hugo Acceptance speech in history (“F**k, I won a Hugo!”): Penn Jillette.
I wonder if Second Cup would have let me get away…
…with writing a note on the furniture to mark the spot where I finished writing my new SF book?
My alma mater makes the news…
…albeit it in slightly embarrassing fashion: “Mayhem at Harding: Dancing Breaks Out.” Oh, and there’s video.
I finished it! I finished it!
I turned in the manuscript for Historic Walks of Regina and Moose Jaw to Red Deer Press last night. Whee! Of course, I still have several hundred photographs to take, apparently in the middle of a cold snap, but at least it will be a change from sitting on my…chair. Now maybe I can make …
Lazarus, Elvis, zombies and Jimmy Hoffa
Elvis lives! Well, kind of. Way back in 1991 I wrote a column on taxonomy–which is not, as you might suppose, the scientific study of taxes. (And yes, I used that same joke 16 years ago.) It’s just barely possible you don’t remember that original column, so first, a quick taxonomy refresher. Taxonomy is the …
Thank you. Thank you very much.
Still too busy to blog much, but here’s an interesting article on applause. Who invented it…and why? (To which the answers appear to be “Nobody knows” and “Because,” but it’s still an interesting article.)
Light blogging alert!
Frantically trying to finish off Historic Walks of Regina and Moose Jaw. Not much blogging today. Maybe not much the whole week…
Robert A. Heinlein’s legacy lives on:
This NASA story, about how the Moon bears witness to the early history of the solar system, and could tell us whether “extinction events” caused by heavy bombardments from outer space really recur every 26 million years on Earth as some have hypothesized, is headlined “The Moon is a harsh witness.” Somebody there has read …
Rise of the robots…
Next stop, the Terminator? Singapore is launching a contest to build “urban warrior robots.”
Huge water reservoirs hidden beneath the Martian surface?
The possibility has suddenly become far more likely. If…if…it pans out, a round trip to Mars just become both much more appealing and much easier. And the likelihood of life on the fourth planet much greater. (As an aside, note that the Mars atmosphere expert quoted at the end of the story is named David …
Electric sheep and the androids who dream of them:
“Biomimetic Technologies Project Will Create First Soft-Bodied Robots .”
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