Pink Raygun is a fan site that focuses on the modern fangirl, describing itself as “everything you’d expect from a genre site, but girly.” Editor Lisa Fary originally launched the site because she couldn’t find a place where women were having fun with science fiction and “just enjoying the sheer geekery of it.” Their argument…

First launched in 1999, SciFiSource bills itself as “The Ultimate Science Fiction Directory.” It’s a portal devoted entirely to SF Websites, with over 2,500 currently listed. The links are broken down into general categories, and there’s a basic search function. They’re about to roll out a redesign with more advanced search capabilities and even more…

Wired’s Threat Level blog has a report on a panel at the Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference in CT last week which explored how computers are setting social policy. Despite the crude heuristics available in current software, there’s an unsettling trend in the government toward letting computers make decisions that used to be handled by…

Japanese stone-processing company Ishinokoe has begun offering tombstones featuring QR Codes, bar codes that can be read by cell phones and linked to Web addresses. Scanning the code will allow visitors to view images of the deceased, watch video greetings from the chief mourner at the funeral, and browse the guest book. They can also…

This isn’t precisely SF-related unless you want to explore the whole somebody-tracking-your-every-move thing (which is a whole ‘nother post), but it’s such an insanely useful little link that I feel the need to showcase it. Bugmenot is a repository of usernames and passwords for sites that require registration. Want to view a story on the…

You already visit us for your daily fix of SF news. Did you know that the Other*Worlds*Cafe also offers science fiction chats every night? Well we do. So there. Our hosted chats begin at 10:30 p.m. (Eastern Time) and run until midnight. You can view the chat schedule here and find the chat room here.…

The Church of Scientology’s recent attempt to censor the Internet by trying to force sites to take down a creepy Tom Cruise Scientology video has roused the ire of a group of hackers, who are responding with extreme prejudice. A wiki set up for the project directs Anonymous members to download and use denial of…

Researchers at the University of Queensland have made the very first execution of a quantum calculation. By manipulating entangled photons, they calculated the prime factors of the number 15. In addition to being a major step towards building the first quantum computers, this breakthrough is of interest because it could potentially be used to break…

BoingBoing has posted their yearly charitable gift-giving guide, primarily concentrating on US, UK, and Canadian nonprofits that are concerned with electronic freedom. Electronic Frontier Foundation: EFF always gets my largest annual donation. Last year: No organization works harder, spends smarter and gets more done for your personal long-term technological liberty than EFF. I spent years…