Texas Driver’s License – where not to wait
Let’s just call this a public service announcement. Like many, I am not a fan of waiting, nor the English perfected fine art of “queueing”. When I had to get my Driver’s License renewed...
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U.K. Daily Mail science editor Michael Hanlon and me on SF Signal
My friends at SFSignal.com invited me to interview Michael Hanlon about his new book Eternity: our next billion years. Michael is the science editor for the Daily Mail in the UK. His book goes...
Slate’s Armageddon Matrix
In a classic case of “I wished I’d thought of that”, the eZine “Slate” has created “Choose Your Own Apocalypse”, a cross between Jeopardy and Armageddon. With a matrix of 144 (that’s 12 x...
The Day the Universe told us NOT to Gamble
My wife has won trips to the Super Bowl and the Atlanta Gran LeMans, among many other prizes. She does this with a bit of luck, but mostly through the daily hard work of...
Olympic Gods assembled for Percy Jackson
Though I’d rather see Uma Thurman as Artemis, where she could employ her Kill Bill martial arts skills, this looks like an excellent cast. Featuring Uma Thurman as Medusa and Pierce Brosnan as Chiron,...
Asteroid impact via Google Maps
With news of asteroid 2009 DD45 near-miss of the Earth, what better time for a tool that shows the impact implications? Carlos Labs has released Ground Zero, where you can pick your location and,...
A million miles in the air
With little fanfare (other than self-generated) my local airline has informed me that my last flight (back home from Denver) put me over a million miles traveled with them. Coincidentally, my car turned over...
bookrev: Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse, edited by John Joseph Adams
A large percentage of science fiction writing is tied to some kind of apocalyptic event. And a large portion of the daily news actually portends such an event (for a lighter look, read The...
Dem hurricanes is humblin’
Insert your fav weatherman joke here…man cannot accurately predict the weather or the future. We are about to create black holes, and maybe Higgs bosons at the LHC in CERN, Switzerland…but we cannot tell...