Daily Archives: March 31, 2009
Mary Robinette Kowal Ups the Ante
Posted on March 31, 2009 24 Comments
It involves taking the Giant Block of Foam to the next level. And yes, the next level involves bacon. Or, well. Should.
Reader Request Week 2009 #4: Procreation
Posted on March 31, 2009 104 Comments
M asks: If we procreate, we doom civilization through overpopulation and depletion of resources. If we don’t procreate, we doom civilization through exacerbating an aging population. What’s a potentially procreative person to do? I don’t think it’s as bad as that, personally. For one thing, personally speaking I don’t think an aging population is a […]
More Than Vaguely Terrifying: The Peekaru
Posted on March 31, 2009 46 Comments
It’s like a Snuggie and a chestburster from Alien all in one: Gizmodo has all the disturbing details here.
The Big Idea: Julia Angwin
Posted on March 31, 2009 19 Comments
Hey, folks, this Big Idea piece is a huge thrill for me to present to you because the author, Julia Angwin, is an friend of mine back to our college days, when she was an editor at the Chicago Maroon, the newspaper at which I was the editor-in-chief. We both went into newspapers, but unlike […]
Reader Request Week 2009 #3: Space!
Posted on March 31, 2009 56 Comments
Liz asks: If you could, would you go into Space? The short answer: Sure, as long as someone else paid for it. The longer answer, yes, but I resent the fact that a decade into the 21st century the only way I could get into space at this point is to spend $20 million or […]
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