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Eat your vegetables …
… or your vegetables eat you. Link
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Our Blogiversary
It’s our birthday. Our first one. We didn’t say anything earlier, because, well, we didn’t want to make you feel like you had to find a cute e-greeting card to send us. As of today, we’ve been blogging a whole year. Go, us! (Also, thanks to Chip’s tendency toward OCD, we’ve had a post every…
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Space Hotel to Open in 2012
A hotel called “Galactic Suites” is slated to open as early as 2012. Travelers will use Velcro suits to crawl around their pod-room walls and will be able to see the sun rise 15 times a day. All for a mere $4 million. Link SF Signal also lists 6 Secrets of the Space Hotel: If…
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Interesting Body Mod
Thomas Martel is a “big guy,” and he has trouble using the increasingly-small user interfaces on devices like his new iPhone. So he did what any complete nutjob reasonable person would do and had surgery to make his thumbs thinner. The procedure involved shaving down his thumb bones, carefully altering the muscles, and modifying the…
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List of SF/F Writers’ Blogs
SFSignal maintains a large list of science fiction and fantasy writers’ blogs. Time to update the ol’ blogroll.Link (via BoingBoing)
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Top Science Pop Songs
New Scientist Magazine is asking its readers to help compile a list of the top ten pop songs about science. From the threat of nuclear war: “You’d better watch out, you’d better beware, Albert says that E equals MC squared”; to the wonder of heterosexual love: “XX XY, That’s why it’s you and me. Your…
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Berserked
Via Harlan Ellison … Fred Saberhagen passed away in his home in Albuquerque NM on the afternoon of 29 June. The family will announce a date for a Memorial Celebration later this year. In lieu of flowers donations would be appreciated to any of the following – Doctors without Borders. Catholic Relief, SFWA Emergency Medical…
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The Philosopher’s Stone for Genetics
Craig Venter and his team have come up with a genome transplantation method that transforms one type of bacteria into another, dictated by the transplanted chromosome. In other words, one species turns into a different one. Venter said further: Now we know we can boot up a chromosome system. It doesn’t matter if the DNA…
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Year’s Best SF 12 Now Out
Joy/Pagadan mentioned this on her blog, and was kind enough to send it along to me: In case you’re interested, the anthology, Year’s Best SF 12, is out now; it has a good selection of stories, including Dawn, and Sunset, and the Colours of the Earth by Michael Flynn. A section of this story uses…
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New Theory Supports Martian Oceans
The geological inconsistencies in what were considered possible ancient Martian “shorelines” has been cleared up by a simple (although, to my mind, rather chilling) answer: At some point in the past Mars toppled over 50 degrees, deforming the edges of the ancient oceans. So it looks like there’s finally very good evidence that Mars had…