If you like to holiday in exotic locations, you’ll probably go wild for this idea – a hotel 40 feet beneath the surface of the ocean, by a coral reef near Fiji. The Poseidon Mystery Island resort is being built by submarine magnate Bruce Jones – though the prices will probably be well out of the financial reach of most of us. Could this be the first sign of an underwater land-rush?

Wired is currently running Bruce Sterling’s final column, in which he takes a last wide-angle look at the future of the internet, and concludes that its ubiquity will make it practically invisible – the future will be just like now, only more so, and futurism is a dead scene in a world where anyone can publish their prognostications. At the risk of sounding a little selfish, I’m hoping that less column writing might mean more books forthcoming from Captain Bruce …

A new research paper hypothesises that certain strains of radiation-resistant microbes here on Earth may have inherited the characteristic from Martian antecedents, carried from the Red Planet on meteorites – and that the exchange may have been two-way. What a blow for Mars colony advocates – to discover that bacteria may have beaten us to it!

Fab @ Home is a wiki that shows you how to build your own fabber for your kitchen counter. ‘Cause everyone needs a resin model of… something. [engadget]