Order your T-1000
We may have programmable matter in our near future.
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Betelgeuse may go nova
What was your worst vacation spot?
Astronomers have found the largest black hole yet, with 6.4 billion times the sun’s mass.
Author Archives: JD DeLuzio
Genre-Based Techno Video
Problematically-named fledgling Youtube star Fagottron makes trippy techno by chopping up films….
Book Review: Little Brother
In the wake of a near-future terrorist attack, some teens run afoul of the Department of Homeland Security—and become American revolutionaries in the process. Cory Doctorow’s novel, one of three YA books nominated for best novel at this year’s Hugo Awards, also serves as a primer of sorts.
Oddball Round-up
WolframAlpha answers inquiries about Skynet, altered primates give their offspring one to glow on, some nerdy observations needed to be made, and the founder of Cirque du Soleil will be the next Billionaire in Space!
Novel Review: Saturn’s Children
Today is the two hundredth anniversary of the final extinction of my One True Love, as close as I can date it.
In Charlie Stross’s space opera, nominated for a 2009 Hugo, the future brings wild adventures, interplanetary espionage, intelligent spaceships, and floating cities. Earth has established colonies throughout the solar system, and its inhabitants are now reaching for the stars.
Pity no human beings have survived to see it.
Weekend Review: Up
An old curmudgeon, faced with a difficult turn of events, waves the world good-bye in a manner only possible in fantasy. The old man does what we might do in the same situation, if reality allowed it to happen.
Of course, his escape doesn’t happen easily. An eager and somewhat nerdy Boy Scout Wilderness Scout gets stuck along for the ride, and adventure awaits them in a lost world.
Crossover Site at Bureau42
My old site has found a new home right here, at the Bureau. I’d like to think there’s some kind of grand design at work, since the Unified Field Crossover History of the Universe brought me here in the first place….
Infinitely Secret Civil Crisis in Riverdale!
In the latest much-ballyhooed gimmick that will have no long-term effect on continuity comic book development, Archie will propose to Veronica next September in a story that takes the gang (after sixty-eight years) out of high school. Michael Uslan, best known as a producer of the Batman movies, will write.
A special story. That means it won’t carry over into the regular Riverdale universe.
Your daughters and kid siblings can rest easy.
Part of Neighboring Galaxy Missing
Parts of Messier 87, a galaxy in the Virgo cluster, appear to be missing.
Other science-related stories (including the awesome Bat-Touch Gun)….
Novel Review: The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman has written another book for all ages. Despite its obvious antecedents, it ranks among his most creative and inventive works—and that is saying quite a lot.