By way of DF on an evopsy mailing-list, this review by Matt Nuenke of The Robot's Rebellion. While I feel totally in synch with the author of the review, I particularly like the part about The four interrelated biases I have discussed in detail elsewhereMakes me want to read more ( Read more... )

In a previous post, I mentionned this page about the energetic challenge to any kind of interstellar travel. Since the page is currently unavailable (darn, is web.archive.org gone for good?), I consulted my pineal gland about something roughly equivalent. I thus found this nice articleon the topic, that explores more detailed challenges ( Read more... )

Izys' birthday party this friday was a very successful event with over twenty high-quality people present, most of them geeks of some sort, and over half of them computer geeks. Among other people, I was particularly happy to meet again our own local wonder-geek David MadoreThe female/male ratio was low, but the women were all quite desirable ( Read more... )