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Thursday, August 28th

New Who Movie, New Dwarf TV!!!!


According to this blurb (story seems a bit grandiose for such a tiny number of words) from the AHN, there may be a chance for a new Doctor Who Movie, the first in decades. This news came hard on the heels of the announcement that Doctor Who won Best Program of 2008 at the Edinburgh TV festival. There is also word that there will be new Red Dwarf episodes, at least four of them, playing on Dave TV in 2009. Time to go revisit the rebuilt Red Dwarf home page and look for clues!
Jerry on 08.28.08 @ 07:07 AM EST [link] TrackBack


Wednesday, August 27th

If Carter can do it, so can you!


What does Sheriff Carter do that you think you can't? Special Relativity, and if Carter can do it, so can you, as they explain at Discover Magazine. And then there is Technology that Out-thinks Us, a NY Times article on Verner Vinge and the coming singularity. Or perhaps we should just Re-Edit the way the world works for us.
Jerry on 08.27.08 @ 02:32 AM EST [link] TrackBack


Tuesday, August 26th

Trueblood


I just watched the first episode of Trueblood, the new series from HBO that launches on Sunday, September 7th. I plead Media Overdose for missing the panel at Comic-Con; my first response after viewing was to set my DVR to record the series, my second to do this posting. I saw it off of a promo (i.e., free) DVD that shared store space with this weeks releases; the artwork-title combination caught my eye first, then I noticed the smaller print where it said Thou shall not crave thy neighbor, and finally the bit about from the creator of 6 feet under, Alan Ball. It wasn't until I got it home and played it that I realized I already knew this world; the town of Bon Temps, Louisiana, the author Charlain Harris, the series all about the adventures of just another telepathic waitress hanging out in a world full of vampires, Sookie Stackhouse. If authors like Melanie Rawn will be watching, don't you think it's worth at least a few episodes to check it out?
Jerry on 08.26.08 @ 11:37 PM EST [link] TrackBack


Monday, August 25th

Doctor Who Links


Primarily for the new series, the Tardis and Torchwood Treasures link list has a number of excellent Doctor Who sites listed in one convenient location.
Jerry on 08.25.08 @ 01:31 AM EST [link] TrackBack


Sunday, August 24th

Science Translations


Issac Asimov was the king, and today there are many descendants of his style. By which I mean people or organizations who have the goal of translating fundamental science into something everyone can understand. It is not as easy as it looks; and for some topics, it can be very hard indeed. For instance, recently there was an advancement in materials with a negative refractive index; most popular science outlets didn't have a clue, and claimed it was the advent of cloaking technology as we have seen in Star Trek. A very few realized it was the advent of Super Lenses that had the ability to show us things no human has ever seen before, not at all the same thing. Then there was the article about Stellar Formation around Supermassive Black Holes, which used the one at the center of our own galaxy as the example (since that is where all the observable phenomena came from). The translation? Black holes lead to unusual stars, which I suspect we all had known before the results were in. Another favorite of mine this week was the Near Earth Asteroid Birthplace, which the popular press listed as things that might kill us all (cause our extinction), not to be confused with Meteorites. Wait, the popular press might have gotten one right that time...
Jerry on 08.24.08 @ 05:47 AM EST [link] TrackBack