Continuing marginalia

Charlie Stross writes a letter to spammers I’m sure we would all sign off on.

The “Austin Mayor” blog has an interesting take on crime and punishment.

There’s a new movement to bring Firefly back for a second season. (Via Novelhead). More details here.

The RAND Corporation think tank has compiled a list of “50 Books for Thinking About the Future Human Condition.” (Via boing boing).

Locus Magazine has posted its list of recommended reading in and about the SF/fantasy genre for material published in 2005.

If I’d lived my life by what others were thinkin’,
The heart inside me would’ve died.

“Up to Me,” Bob Dylan, Biograph

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