Maybe…just maybe. President Bush could be making an announcement refocusing NASA’s efforts on a return to the moon–and eventually, a journey to Mars–in an upcoming speech. Early days yet, but this sounds hopeful!

If you’ve been looking for edwardwillett.com, you won’t find it–I’m changing hosts and at the moment the site has fallen through the cracks. I hope it’ll be back up within a day, though.

This is cool! Who knew we could each serve as our own ethernet cable?

Bio-engineered superbug stirs debate. Hoo-boy…

Hal Clement died in his sleep last night. His very first novel, Needle, was serialized in Astounding 10 years before I was born, but I still remember reading and re-reading it as a kid. It was one of those works, along with Have Space Suit, Will Travel and other Heinlein “juveniles” that cemented my love …

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The Gender Genie analyzes text and tells you whether it thinks the author was male or female. It got it right with three different things of mine I entered.

I’d never heard of this before. Cool!

I gave a reading at the Weyburn Public Library last Thursday night. This is notable because, although I grew up in Weyburn and am a former editor of the Weyburn Review, I’ve rarely read in the city–only a couple of times at schools, and never (until last week) at the library. It was an interesting …

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A recent Canadian study proves that we’re not just wasting our time when we play video games.

Aside from the references to New Labour, this article says pretty much what I feel about the state of modern art.

It’s not quite Blade Runner, but it sure sounds science-fictional.