Link me, Amadeus.- The question: "Are we headed for a sci-fi dystopia" seems almost quaint to me. The linked article deals with GATTACA -like eugenics stuff more than all of the other, more truly dystopian themes in our actual modern reality.
- What's amazing is not that asteroid Apophis has a 1 in 450 chance of impacting the Earth in 2036. It's also not amazing that a 13 year-old German kid is the one that figured out those odds, and corrected NASA's estimate, which was apparently off by two orders of magnitude. What is amazing, is that the world's news media believed the unlikely story. (Apophis actually has a 1 in 45,000 chance of hitting the Earth in 2036.)
- Spine was stung by a scorpion... again.
- Gabe and Max: Internextperts!
- The futuristic fashions of the year 2000!
- So once you've laughed a little too loud for the given social situation and you've snorted and made an obscure Star Trek reference, it's now time to push your glasses up on your nose. Which method do you choose?
- Check out how spectacularly wrong author Clifford Stoll was in his 1995 Newsweek article about the future of the internet.
- 5 small things SF can do to improve its image.
- Don't let your subscription lapse, pussy!
- Next time you see one of those videos of police being abusive or overly aggressive, watch this amazing example of extreme law enforcement restraint. Somebody give that cop a medal.
Some links via The Contrarian, Bad Astronomy, Boing Boing, Warren Ellis and Making Light.