Saskatchewan and the X-Prize

This story is an interesting description of Canada’s Da Vinci Project entry in the X-Prize, interesting primarily because of its description of Kindersley, Saskatchewan, as a “remote site.” Nothing remote about it, unless you live in Toronto; it’s simply an easy car ride along respectable roads. That said, even though it’s probably only about a …

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Evangelicals are not fundamentalists

Here’s an excellent article dispelling some of the bizarre theories prevalent among the non- or anti-religious derived from their (mis)understanding of George W. Bush’s religious beliefs.

The dreams of engineers

Humans like to build impressive things–witness the Pyramids. Today’s technology is making possible feats of engineering that would have seemed like science fiction just a few years ago. In the current issue of Popular Science, Carl Hoffman provides a round-up of upcoming engineering marvels. I’m just going to mention a few. One sure path to …

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Photos! Get your Willett photos here!

I’m experimenting with a photoblog; just a few scenic pictures of Regina up right now. Exposure Manager, the host, is currently in beta, but it looks promising, and it’s pretty cheap, too (the 30-day demo is free, but a year with unlimited storage is only $40 U.S.).

Television may drive kids to distraction

Apparently, watching too much television at too early an age may contribute to attention-deficit… I’m sorry, I forgot what I was talking about.

Too many awards?

There’s an award for everything these days, its seems, including the Ursa Major Awards for “Best Anthropomorphic LIterature and Art”. Seems a little odd to me, but I’ve never really understood “fuzzy” fandom.

Can 600 geeks equal one supercomputer?

That’s what they tried to find out in San Francisco today–although, oddly, this story doesn’t answer the question.

This is not an April Fool’s joke…

Britain once considered using chickens as “a form of heating independent of power supplies” in a plutonium landmine. No, really!

Yet another real-life story that sounds like SF…

Scientists have made an ultra-pure glass in a levitation lab.

Noam Chomsky deconstructed

Why does anyone still listen to this man?

Like, wow, man

Today’s news-story-that-could-make-a-great-SF-story-by-someone-other-than-me-because-I-don’t-know-a-thing-about-surfing-being-from-landlocked-Saskatchewan:hanging ten on Titan.

Worth a pilgrimage

I’ll be in Seattle next year for the North American Science Fiction Convention…and I’ll be going here for sure!