It’s the Lake Superior State University 2007 List of Banished Words. My favorite: NOW PLAYING IN THEATERS — Heard in movie advertisements. Where can we see that, again? “How often do movies premiere in laundromats or other places besides theaters? I know that when I want to see a movie I think about going to …
I’ve signed the American version of The Euston Manifesto. Perhaps you’d like to sign it, or the original, too? (Via BuzzMachine.) Happy New Year!
*Sigh*. Attempting to finish the final review of my new SF novel so I can submit it to Sheila Gilbert at DAW Books this week. Just discovered the name of my planet does not mean what I thought it did. Had to change the name of the planet. (It’s now Marseguro, which means “safe sea” …
I didn’t…until now.
A pilot (with a great sense of humour) gets his first chance to fly a DC3, more than 70 years after the famous aircraft first took to the skies. Today, decades later, scores are still in operation. My favorite line: I was much taken by the crew escape hatch on the left-hand fuselage side, just …
It’s being seriously considered. There’s interest in asteroids for a range of reasons…for exploration, for pure science, resource utilization, as well as learning how to mitigate the threat from a sniping space rock that has its crosshairs on Earth. Neither Bruce Willis nor Clint Eastwood, I hasten to add, will be involved in any putative …
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, when a columnist can fill his allotted space simply by looking back on everything he wrote about in the previous 365 (give or take) days. However, it would be too easy to simply look back at the columns that appeared in the newspaper. Instead, here is “the …
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No one knows. But science fiction writer David Brin does an excellent job of summing up the possibilities in “Singularities and Nightmares: Extremes of Optimism and Pessimism about the Human Future.” It’s a long read, but well worth it. (Via Instapundit.)
Few people appreciate that medicine has advanced more since World War II than in all of earlier history. Read the whole New York Times article. Now, what was that about the “good old days”?
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Quite Impressionistic, isn’t it? More photos here.
