I am thinking of doing a project. I don't want to talk details yet because I honestly don't have any. It's kind of a nebulous thing in my head (it's like a plan, but with more greatness). But as part of it, I wanted to ask you all ( Read more... )

5 Reasons It Sucks Being a Joss Whedon FanI don't consider myself a Whedon fan. I love Firefly/Serenity and I really like Dr. Horrible. Beyond that? Meh. Never could stand Buffy. Angel had some good bits but wasn't consistent enough for me to take the time to watch it regularly. The premise of Dollhouse made me throw up in my mouth a little bit so ( Read more... )

Two weeks this time because I wasn't on the Internet at all during Dragon*Con.

Entertainment/Media
See every trailer for all the new and returning sci-fi/fantasy shows. Just in case you wanted it all in one place or something.

io9's spoiler-free take on the pilot episode of Stargate Universe. Hmm...don't know. This is still very much wait-and-see ( Read more... )

Time for some links I collected over the week. I keep meaning to do this more often.

Science

Immortality improves cell reprogramming. Scientists have found that blocking an anti-tumor pathway in adult cells allows the creation of stem-like cells...which isn't surprising, since that's pretty close to what cancer cells are and cells can become ( Read more... )

Because everyone else is posting theirs:

( Which fantasy writer am I (plus some navel-gazing) )

Science/Biotech
10 Ways Genetically Engineered Microbes Could Help Humanity - an interesting and short overview of some recent biotech advancements using bacteria and yeast, with links to longer articles if you're interested.

New minor planet helps explain comets - The headline is misleading; the article is mostly just about the discovery of a new ( Read more... )

I'm going to try to start doing these again, only on a more regular basis. Maybe every Monday?

Science/Biotech
A virus that infects another virus - It's just a short little article but it's interesting. Also touches on the "are viruses alive?" debate.

Scientists a step closer to producing fuel from bacteria - But not that close ( Read more... )

I haven't been doing this every week, but I think this week's discussion question at creativefantasy could potentially be interesting, so I'm posting it here in my personal LJ as well:

So, let's talk popular fantasy authors. Or rather, a specific popular author, and who better to start with than the man many call the father of modern fantasy: J. R. R. Tolkien. ( Read more... )

Oh, going to this site was a bad idea.

I have just won 800 coins at the slot machine.

And here is a site Neil Gaiman linked to in his blog yesterday. It's very interesting and pretty and disturbing.

Saturn Awards nominees are here. Why is it that X-Men 3 is classified as science fiction, but Superman Returns is fantasy? Are those categories just

So I finally finished Perdido Street Station by China Mieville. This was one of those where I moved really slowly through it for a long time, and then finished off the whole last half last night. Needless to say, I thought it was pretty good.

( More under here (spoilers) )