Douglas Adams fans: Does this mean it's now illegal to say "Belgium" in Belgium?

In 2000, I had a Monolith made in the correct 1:4:9 proportions (see userpic) in honor of the approaching year. This traveled to New Millennium party (which was held on the correct date, unlike the many sheeple who observed it a year early) and to Boskone's Art Show. Its home since then has been my living room ( Read more... )

Ray Bradbury has died at age 91.

Jonathan Coulton and John Scalzi discuss JoCo's songs, with special attention to "The Future Soon." happyfunpaul, you've seen this already, of course?

Recently I got Raumpatrouille Orion, "die Kult-Kollektion auf 3 DVDs," from Amazon.de, and I've had a chance to enjoy some of it while out on medical leave. Previously I'd seen the movie, "Rücksturz ins Kino," which is a rather dreadful job of pasting together clips from the episodes; the episodes themselves are much better so far. The science is ( Read more... )

Someone posted on Twitter today that April Fool's Day would be the best day for aliens to invade the Earth, but I can think of two other days that would be equally good for evading early notice ( Read more... )

Sign in front of a café on Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge.


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The mere fact that the present [glider] flight covered over fifteen hundred miles was not the principal reason for this; rather it was the fact that he should take such a flight as a matter of course, with no more concern about the possibility of failure than a man considers when he starts to drive from Honolulu to New York.
- Hal Clement, Cycle of ( Read more... )

I saw an iRobot billboard today on my way to the Boskone meeting, with the following text:

"Fiction made promises. Science is delivering."