A belated writing diary for Thursday and Friday. Both days, worked on Science Centre project; Thursday, accomplished little, Friday, finally got a handle on it and at least outlined it (“it” being a comic-strip script pertaining to sustainable communities) to the end; now I just have to finish fleshing it out. br / br /Both …

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A belated writing diary for Thursday and Friday. Both days, worked on Science Centre project; Thursday, accomplished little, Friday, finally got a handle on it and at least outlined it (“it” being a comic-strip script pertaining to sustainable communities) to the end; now I just have to finish fleshing it out. Both days also saw …

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…but here’s a report from a couple of days ago of the successful teleportation of particles of light over a distance of 600m across the River Danube in Austria.

This is one of the stupidest Olympic-related stories I’ve read yet. An athlete can’t blog about her (or his) Olympic experiences because the IOC says so? Stupid, short-sighted, dumb and offensive–that just about covers it.

Jim Carrey isn’t in sight, and it seems unlikely this 2,400-year-old golden mask is going to have mystical powers…but you never know.

Helicopter stunt pilots have been recruited to catch a falling stardust probe for NASA next month. Should be a nailbiting time for all involved; I hope it’s on TV!

Why indeed? Duncan Steel, writing in the Guardian, says, “No good reason.” (Note yet another Star Trek tie-in…)

Nobody mentions Star Trek, nobody mentions holodeck’s, but these smart tiles allow you to stroll naturally through a virtual world while really remaining in one place.

NASA is working on an early version of what may one day evolve into a main ship computer rather like those on the various Star Trek vessels.

Spirit finds more tantalizing hints that there may have been more water in the area of its landing site on Mars than previously thought.

Well, I blogged up a storm yesterday, and added nothing today until now. Such is bloglife. A rather disjointed day, writing-wise. This was Radio Dell’Arte day on CJTR, and today, as noted, we played the Arrogant Worms and talked about science fiction. Fun, but also non-paying. I walked to the studio but got a ride …

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A pretty good day today. The column took longer to edit down than usual, for some reason–too much good information I didn’t want to lose, I guess. I also got in a good hour on Death Tide, this time working at Starbucks, since I wanted to go down to that end of town anyway to …

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