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I have three or four book reviews I should/need to write and either lack the motivation to finish (or even start) or am simply in procrastination mode. Thus, it seems an appropriate time for a collection of miscellany: Steal This Wiki has been launched to update and revise Abbie Hoffman’s counterculture classic, Steal This Book. […] The head of NASA’s former Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Project has announced the formation of the Tau Zero Foundation. Named after a Poul Anderson novel, the foundation is intended to support “incremental advancements in science, technology, and education” leading to interstellar flight. (Via Roberson’s Interminable Ramble.) Speaking of being on another planet, evidently the Bible says […] SF author David Louis Edelman gives us 20 ways science fiction and fantasy are like Mozilla Firefox. The Space Program Archive is a new project continaing more than 50,000 historical newspaper pages about space programs and space exploration. The A.V. Club gives us classic movies it’s okay to hate. With the exception of A Clockwork […] I am just now starting to see the light of day from the material that accumulated while I was gone (although I have cracked only one of the six books that arrived in my absence). Most of my family is off in different directions this weekend, giving me a sparse and quiet house for the […] Posting will be sporadic in the near future as travel and related matters will leave me with limited or no internet access. Thus, a few parting tidbits: PC World gives us the 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time. I admit that I have dealt with those ranked 1 (AOL), 2 (Real Player), 4 (Windows […] |
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