OK, this is a bit weird. Sound more like fiction than reality. But I love it!

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/26/us/crusaders-take-page-and-outfits-from-comics.html

..., or at least, beginning to plan to plan how to travel to other star systems. By The New York Times, mind you!! Now all I have to do is figure out how to live another 150 or 250 years, so I can see the fun stuff that's to come...http://www.nytimes.com/

What do you folks think about this story:

http://www.parentcentral.ca/parent/babiespregnancy/babies/article/995112--parents-keep-child-s-gender-secret
I think it's fascinating, but complicated.  It'll be interesting to see how it turns out.

I used to always read the newspaper every day, but recently I’ve been so busy, I’ve let the papers pile up.

( Our insane world, here )

Transparent Aluminum is created:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090727130814.htm

It's just a shame the inventor's name doesn't match up with canon...

... Rachel Maddow??

Well, maybe not.  But on tonight's show, there was a segment about Michelle Obama taking up the Judge Sotomayer defense fight in her husband's absense.  The crawl throughout the segment?

"Resistance is futile."

Wow.  A ST:VOY reference, right in the middle of my one of my daily political fixes.

Is good.

The philosophical debate between President Obama and former VP Dick Cheney is riveting. Rarely do we see such divergent views showcased so clearly. Values vs security. "Keeping true to our core beliefs" vs doing "whatever it takes" to feel safe ( Read more... )

I thought this was pretty interesting.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-bradley/star-treks-new-coming-of_b_200861.html

... so.  Does this mean we have a chance at a *new* Star Trek television series?  Do we want one?

I just have to get over my terminal disappointment that HBO or some other edgy cable channel never picked up DS9...

I can't believe it!  But here you go:  An article in Newsweek, of all places, about slash, slash fanfic, and specifically, K/S slash.  I knew this movie would bring ST back into the mainstream, but I never expected something like this!

http://www.newsweek.com/id/195963?from=rss

A fairly interesting, if brief, article on the possibilities of warp drive technology:

http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/090506-tw-warp-drive.html

Be sure to follow the links at the end of the article.  I loved the first video of a physicist talking about FTL travel, and the last link, to the Top Ten Star Trek technologies we now have.