- REMINDER: Accretionary Wedge posts due this Friday -- The theme is unhinged speculation about the future Earth.
- Calculus: The Musical! -- The concept may or may not be more charming than the execution.
- Sand Won't Save You This Time -- Mmm, ClF3.
- Plausibly Impossible: Hirotoshi Itoh's Grinning Stones -- Rocks with zippers!
- Planet Harddrive -- Cool, but implausible, geological sci-fi idea. Who *doesn't* need a giant information storage medium in which the long-term conservation problems are worse than those of a cheap-o CD-RW?
- Carnival of Space #87 -- Spaaaace!
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love the zircon photo!
(re: Calculus: The Musical!) ...and here I thought I wuz overreaching with my never-started opera based on the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson...
Hirotoshi Itoh's work - definitely delicious! I especially like the one with coffee beans inside - you know they must be fresth. :D
The musical is odd, but I saw a pretty good 2-person rendition last year. Perfect geek date :-).