Ooops, looks like this one managed to slip by under the radar. Still well worth a mention though; Iain Emsley (fellow reviewer for Interzone) interviews David Marusek, author of ‘Counting Heads’, the SF novel whose NYT review caused such a furore in the genre.

You’ve probably read by now that the Gospel of Judas has been found, authenticated and translated. It’s one of several Gnostic texts to be discovered in the last several decades. What’s fascinating to me, with my pseudo-Catholic background, is the way it gives historical insights into a time I’ve always considerd walled off by theology.

A “perfect mirror” that reflects laser light and can be formed into a spaghetti-thin tube is helping surgeons zap tumors that can’t be reached with line-of-sight lasers.

A company called SeaCode is putting together a novel idea in offshoring: they’re going to buy a used cruise ship and fill it with developers, then park it in international waters just off the coast of California. Check out the write up in bldg blog, which judging from the quality of the posts so far is likely to become a lot more familiar in these parts.

It’s high time we just *went there* and settled this debate once and for all! Now two geologists are proclaiming that there may be water on Mars – because some of the desert formations seen there are similar to those observed in a part of New Mexico, which only occur in the presence of water. We can expect a refutation or counter-claim within weeks, no doubt.