I recently toured the Toronto Zoo, exciting to me because I’ve never seen it, and exciting to our two-year-old, Alice, because currently her favorite story is a short adaptation of Disney’s animated adaptation of Tarzan, in which many of the characters are gorillas–and one of the Toronto zoo’s star features is called the Gorilla Rainforest. It’s …
Just found this. It appears to be legitimate. But then, it would, wouldn’t it?
In a way, I’m disappointed.
Wil McCarthy says what I feel about China’s manned spaceflight. Preach on, brother!
Good news from Iraq? Yes, believe it or not. And that’s good news for everyone. However you felt about the invasion (personally, I was torn) it’s in everyone’s interest that we succeed in turning Iraq into a stable democratic country. Those calling for the U.S. to get out (there are demonstrations planned to that effect), …
As I mentioned last week, I recently spent a couple of days at the Chateau Montebello, the world’s largest log hotel. Ironically, that same weekend, another famous log structure, the central building at the Minaki Lodge in northern Ontario, burned to the ground. Both Montebello and Minaki were built more than 70 years ago. But …
I’m back home from three weeks in Toronto and the Ottawa region and ready to resume blogging, with this story about monkeys learning to use a thought-controlled robotic arm–great news for paralyzed people and with all kinds of other potential uses. I can see couch potatoes clamoring for just such an implant so they can …
Orson Scott Card reacts to Harold Bloom’s reaction to Stephen King’s National Book Award–and says what I wanted to say, only better. (Scroll down to the bottom of the column.) And by the way, you should regularly check out these Card columns, in which, as promised, he reviews everything. You may not agree with him, …
But China won’t be telling us much until they actually pull it off.
May I have the envelope please… I normally do a column on these. Maybe I still will.
I haven’t been blogging for the last 10 days because I’ve been on vacation, but I am still alive and so is Hassenpfeffer! I’m in Toronto at the moment; look for a return to regular blogging when I get home in mid-October. In the meantime, why not visit one of the fine sites listed to …
I have an inherent interest, having experimented with e-publishing (with Spirit Singer), in the development of a truly useable (and loveable) electronic reading device. Electronic paper is one technology that may give it to us. Apparently it may give us even more.
