A company in the United Kingdom is investigating the feasability of paving disused train lines with recycled tire rubber, opening up new lanes for driving. Me, I’m more of a Rails To Trails kind of guy.
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Build Your Own Adventure (Island)
TribeWanted is an eco-sensitive time-share project where the members build the resort on a Fijian island. The web site is a little too slick, but the concept is definitely appealing.
REAL CITY by Carrie Vaughn
Carrie Vaughn‘s “Real City” is a modern Hollywood fable set in a post-post-modern future.
Real City
by Carrie Vaughn
Stalking around the party without her referencing link flashing names and stats at her felt a little like being drunk. It was Cass’s way of making an adventure for herself. Off-balance, senses muffled, she indulged in self-induced paranoia. Smiling faces, links hooked to their ears, nodded in greeting as she passed. They all knew who she was, thanks to their links, and she hadn’t a damn clue about two-thirds of the people here. She was working blind and stupid, and it made her giddy, along with the glass of wine she’d had.
It seemed like most of Hollywood had shown up for the RealCity Productions launch party. Probably because they all wanted to be able to say they’d been here and known the company was doomed from the start.
Vim had said they had to have a party to manufacture hype.
“We don’t have the money for that kind of party,” she’d told him.
“Oh, but we will! We have to throw parties like this if we’re ever going to have enough money to throw parties like this!” Continue reading REAL CITY by Carrie Vaughn
“Founding Brothers”
by Joseph J. Ellis
I find history fascinating for many of the reasons I love science fiction: it takes me out of the limited horizons of this world. Ellis’ portrayal of men at the start of a country is a quick and dramatic read.
Outrunning Earthquakes
I always assumed that earthquake early warning systems, were they to ever become a reality, would have to predict an earthquake before it happened. But systems in place in parts of Japan and Mexico provide earthquake warnings by detecting an earthquake at its epicenter, and sending light speed signals that outrun the seismic waves.