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Nautilus-Inspired Office
Game company Three Rings Design commissioned Jillian Northrup and Jeffrey “Toast” McGrew of Because We Can to convert some open office space into an environment modeled on Captain Nemo’s Victorian submarine.This is now at the top of my list of frivolous things to do when I get rich, supplanting my previous intention of endowing a…
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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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Bad Spock Drawings
I love blogs that are dementedly devoted to a particular, obscure subject. They’re the Internet equivalent of a museum dedicated entirely to shrimp forks. Bad Spock Drawings is just such a blog, and it’s devoted to just exactly what it says it is. I particularly like the first in their list of inclusion criteria: When…
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Denvention 2008
I made the happy discovery when I received the first newsletter from Denvention in the mail that, since I voted for site selection at LaConIV, I have a free supporting membership! I checked out the attending membership and it was only $80 (that was before June 1/07). After consultation with Starmom (who was griping about…
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Pac-Man Skeleton
Artist Le Gentil Garçon collaborated with a paleontologist to blend human and predatory animal skulls into this Pac-Man “skull.” (It’d actually be its entire skeleton, I believe.) Maybe he’ll do Frogger next. Link (via BoingBoing)
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Steam Trek: The Moving Picture
Any comment I could make would be entirely superfluous. (via Slumbering Lungfish)
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Asimov’s Three Laws for Cats
Defective Yeti has the right idea. 1. A cat may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. This includes transmogrifying from “adorable kitty enjoying a tummy rub” to “bandsaw” without warning. Link
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New Computer Virus Targets Calculators
Now it’s official: everything is infectible. Wired’s Threat Level blog reports that two new “proof-of-concept” computer viruses* target the TI-89 graphing calculator. They obviously can’t spread to another calculator directly, but instead wait for the user to move an infected file through the TI-89’s serial port, which can connect to a PC or directly to…
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Why I Love My Husband
(#2,387,492 in a series) After this story broke, Shadow and I got into a heated, hand-waving, take-no-prisoners argument about the likelihood of marginal life still existing on Mars. There was much quoting of statistical data regarding hard radiation on cell structure and much citing of extremophilic organisms on Earth, not to mention a protracted wrangle…
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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…