Global Spin

Why is “Dick Cheney smiling”:http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apwashington_story.asp?category=1151&slug=US%20Iran? See “Iraq”:http://www.globalspin.com/mt/archives/000470.html for details. Let’s hope America (and Congress) won’t be fooled so easily this time…

Posted by Chris in Politics on January 21st, 2005 | Comments Off

Did you read science fiction as a child? If so, take a look at this “SF Reading Habits Questionnaire”:http://sfquestions.blogspot.com/. It might be interesting to know who “our people” are… “The purpose of this questionnaire is to provide material for a book called (provisionally), The Inter-Galactic Playground of Children’s Science Fiction to be published by McFarland [...]

Posted by Chris in Literature on January 20th, 2005 | 1 Comment »

News that Virgin Atlantic is planning to offer “private double beds on the new A380″:http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-01/20/content_2485526.htm got me thinking. It really would be nice to spend most of a 14-hour flight sleeping in a real bed, kind of like travelling by train. The way it is now, the first and last day of any long trip [...]

Posted by Chris in Travel on January 20th, 2005 | Comments Off

Just found this neat article by an Asian-American woman partnered with a European-American man. One child has the dad’s name while the other has her name. It’s an interesting article and the author bio at the end is especially fun.

Posted by Deana in Culture on January 19th, 2005 | Comments Off

Who says that beauty can’t be truth, that art can’t be science? It seems that a scientist at LSU has “found the long-lost sky catalog of Hipparchus”:http://www.astronomy.com/default.aspx?c=a&id=2773 in plain sight. Specifically, it’s on a statue called the “Famese Atlas”:http://sights.seindal.dk/img/orig/9456.jpg, a depiction of Atlas holding up the sky. Apparently the sculptor used one of Hipparchus’ catalogs [...]

Posted by Chris in Science on January 18th, 2005 | Comments Off