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Stop the PERFORM Act, Save the Ability to Record Radio
Congress has reintroduced the PERFORM Act, a broadcast flag for radio. If it passes, you can wave goodbye to the idea of recording digital radio or Internet radio. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has a Web page to help you write to your Congresscritter to protest this. This bill aims to hobble TiVo-like devices for satellite…
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Robert Anton Wilson, RIP
Robert Anton Wilson passed away early yesterday morning. From his final blog post: I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread. I love you all and I deeply implore you to keep the lasagna flying. Please pardon my levity, I don’t see how to take death seriously. It seems absurd. Fnord
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“Look, You’re British, So Scale it Back a Bit.”
Eddie Izzard notwithstanding, Britain has announced that it may plan a couple of solo moon missions. Entitled, of all things, “Moonlight” and “Moonraker.”Link
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Titan Has Rivers and Lakes
Images shot last summer by the Cassini spacecraft provide the strongest evidence yet that Saturn’s moon Titan, one of the most Earth-like bodies in the solar system, is dotted with a multitude of liquid lakes, probably of methane or a similar substance.Link
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Cows, Minus the “Mad” Part
Scientists have finally got beyond the novelty of gengineering glow-in-the-dark tropical fish, and are working on some genetic engineering that makes sense. They’ve managed to create a prototype cow that doesn’t have the ability to manufacture the deformed prions responsible for Mad Cow Disease.Link
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The Top Ten Astronomy Images of 2006
The #1 picture just left me speechless. It’s now my desktop :-)Link
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Changes to the ISFDB
They’ve opened the ISFDB for editing by the general public. They would like to recruit beta testers for this effort.The ISFDB is a community effort to catalog works of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. It links together various types of bibliographic data: author bibliographies, publication bibliographies, award listings, magazine content listings, anthology and collection content…
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Team Films Live Giant Squid
A Japanese research team has succeeded in filming a giant squid live–possibly for the first time–and says the elusive creatures may be more plentiful than previously believed.Link
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Life Imitates Snow Crash…Again
I’ve previously written about Snow Crash-like technology coming to the real world. Now Google Earth is getting in on the act. Check it out at Technovelgy.com
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Print a New Hip Joint
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh have created a unique ink-jet printing system that uses “bio-ink” to lay down a pattern of cells that will differentiate into a designed pattern of both bone and muscle cells. They begin with a layer of nurturing proteins as a base, then use a robotic inkjet-style…