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How to Live On Mars

I’ll do a more thorough review of it when I get home again to reliable internet service, but I read Bob Zubrin’s new book How to Live On Mars yesterday.

It was funny, and a clever take on the subject, but there was a lot I found myself disagreeing with. In particular the sanction given […]

December 28th, 2008 | Tags: , , , | Category: Entertainment, Space Technology | One comment - (Comments are closed)

Suckered

Post-apocalypse stories have a certain appeal to me, probably stemming from being a child of the malaise-ridden, nuclear-winter-threatened, cold-war-dominated 1970s-1980s. So, when I discovered that there was a like-themed movie coming out this fall called The Road, and that it was based on a novel, well, naturally I bought the book.

And jeebus…that’s four wasted […]

October 12th, 2008 | Category: Entertainment, Science Fiction | Comments are closed

“Iceland Is On Its Own”

Looks like I chose wisely in waiting until next year to visit Iceland:

Iceland is on the brink of collapse. Inflation and interest rates are raging upwards. The krona, Iceland’s currency, is in freefall and is rated just above those of Zimbabwe and Turkmenistan. One of the country’s three independent banks has been nationalised, another […]

October 7th, 2008 | Category: Entertainment, Settlement | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)

The Image Fulgurator

Damn… I wish I’d had one of these during the DNC in August:

In principle, the Fulgurator can be used anywhere where there is another camera nearby that is being used with a flash. It operates via a kind of reactive flash projection that enables an image to be projected on an object exactly at […]

October 5th, 2008 | Category: Entertainment, Useful Technology | Comments are closed

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