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NASA Mercury Messenger Finds Surprises - NYTimes.com "On its third swing past Mercury, NASA's Mercury Messenger spacecraft discovered an unexpectedly young lava plain, rapid rufflings of the planet's weak magnetic field and an unanticipated dance of elements in the thin atmosphere. "I think the…
You may or may not have noticed the absence of the "Links for [Date]" posts the last couple of days. There's been some sort of glitch at del.icio.us, and they didn't auto-post the way they usually do. You may or may not have missed them, but I do, so below the fold you'll find the big long list of…
"Edward Gorey's "The Trouble with Tribbles"" By Shaenon K. Garrity "By morning, the mass of mewling fluff had become quite suffocating" (tags: comics television sf silly literature) Dave Foley | Film | Random Roles | The A.V. Club "With his boyish good looks and wry delivery, Dave Foley was…
BOOK EXPO AMERICA LUNCHEON TALK "The Future, capital-F, be it crystalline city on the hill or radioactive post-nuclear wasteland, is gone. Ahead of us, there is merely...more stuff. Events. Some tending to the crystalline, some to the wasteland-y. Stuff: the mixed bag of the quotidian. Please don…