Some readers know that I have a slight obssession with Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cylce and the meta-series that began with Cryptonomicon despite the fact that I will probably never understand the maths that underlie the process. The Independent newspaper ran an interesting article on cryptography today which seemed of light hearted interest
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The London Forbidden Planet store has an intriguing event on July 12th. From the press release:
“Forbidden Planet are pleased to announce that we are the exclusive European location for the upcoming Gentle Giant World Tour celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Star Wars.
This landmark event will feature the demonstration of a real 3D scanner as used [...]
Driving to work this morning, I was listening to the Today programme on Radio Four and they had an article about the movement to consider robot rights as they become more autonomous, such as healthcare and housing.
As one of the commentators points out, this is slightly ludicrous as it doesn’t even consider the practicalities of [...]
Sometimes is fiction is better than fact. A mineral resembling kryptonite has been found in a Serbian mine. Now wehre did we put that underwear pervert to try it out on? It looks different so no “shiny, shiny!”
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An article on the BBC says that the corporation is to run a trial on releasing its archive with a view, one hopes, to releasing the whole archive to everybody via Freeview or IPTV.
In my wilder dreams, I hope that the BBC will allow free access to all so that users can either download or [...]
David Pescovitz has linked to this intriguing article with Jane McGonigal in the San Francicso Weekly. She is working on Alternate Reality Games, such as World Without Oil, which aim to harness the power of the larger community to begtin thinking about real world issues.
Literature has been doing this for a while and the latest manifesto [...]
Ariel, that busy bunny over at Genre Files and UKSFBookNews, has created a site for Joe Abercombie. If you’ve not read his fantasy, do so, it is a treat!
Joe Abercrombie
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I’ve just seen this hilarious (and if you reach the end potentially mind-boggling) crossover idea pitch on the Making Light blog. Go on, folks. Its certainly made my afternoon.
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Today, April 12th, is the anniversary of Vostok 1 launching Yuri Gagarin into orbit.
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Once again the BBC website has come up trumps with an intriguing article about a real estate agent in the USA who is selling plots of land on the moon. He has made millions out of, what frankly seem to me to be gullible, people.
This sort of reminds me of something Geoff Ryman talked about once: [...]