Transparent Aluminum: Scotty was right!
Scientists at Oxford University have reportedly created a new kind of aluminum by bombarding ordinary aluminum with emissions from the world's most powerful "soft" x-ray laser.
July 2009
Under the Dome Coming in November
This is the second year in a row Stephen King is releasing a book just in time for my birthday, and I consider it to be one of the best gifts a girl could ever receive from one of her favorite authors!
Under the Dome, which may be over 1,500 pages, is supposed to revisit themes covered in The Stand—though, King says, more allegorically. It takes place in Chester’s Mill, Maine, a normal town that’s suddenly divided from the rest of the world with an invisible force field, for no apparent reason.
Where I Write: Photographs of Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors' Writing Spaces
Photographer Kyle Cassidy has been taking photographs of where Science Fiction and Fantasy authors write for Where I Write. The project started in 1988, when he saw where author Michael Swanwick wrote, and immediately wanted to photograph the "nest, made out of books" where multiple Hugo award winning author Swanwick wrote. According to Kyle Cassidy, Swanwick's response was positive:
This Gives "The Dark Side" New Meaning
The SyFy [sic] television network is demoing a new toaster at this years San Diego Comic-Con. You want be able to purchase it there, but you can purchase them at their online store—at $90.00 apiece, which, unless you're keeping in box as a collectors' item, strikes me as rather expensive. The Battlestar toaster is limited to 2,000 units. The toaster lights up while toasting, and produces toast with a Cylon on one side, and "Frak Off" on the other. The front of the toaster has a Cylon helmet-mask screen printed design, and the red LED "eye" lights up on the front of the toaster and moves across the helmet while engaged in, err, toasting.