Happy Fun Pundit: Top 10 Things I Hate About Star Trek (via Cincom).
2. The Holodeck
I mean, it’s cool and all. But do you really believe that people would use it to re-create Sherlock Holmes mysteries and old-west saloons? Come on, we all know what the holodeck would be used for. And we also know what the worst job on the Enterprise would be: Having to squeegie the holodeck clean.
A site about Noah’s Ark on Mt. Ararat. A sort of companion to reading Tim Powers’ Declare. Less luck looking up kim Philby.
Are aliens hiding their messages? – an article to be published in New Scientist speculates that interstellar transmissions might be using a method of encryption that hides the sender’s location. Sounds like a way to avoid a Forge of God scenario (here’s a review).
(link through Roland Piquepaille‘s weblog.
William Gibson’s blog is winding down, according to an interview in Wired. “The watched pot never boils,” he says.
A Colder War – a novelette by Charles Stross which crosses Cold War Espionage with Lovecraftian Horror.
Also from Stross is a short story collaboration between him and Cory Doctorow, it’s ongoing writing documented in a weblog: Unwirer.