Sounds pretty shaky to me, but the Guardian is reporting that red rain that fell in Kerala, India for two months in 2001 might just be biological extraterrestrial material distributed by a meteorite.

According to Wired, flexible displays are passè. The new hotness is silicon chips that can stretch up to 100 percent.

Things must be getting really desperate in Iraq if the military is asking for a chemical spray to decommission small arms.

Demonizing smokers is so 2004. Evidently the next big health crisis–or one of them, anyway– is a looming obesity epidemic. The surgeon general is so concerned about it he’s invoking 9/11, which is sure to win him fans everywhere.

As Jeremy pointed out earlier, a review of David Marusek’s Counting Heads has appeared in the New York Times. Defending its turf, the SF field is having a field day on the reviewer, whom most consider a half-assed SF poser. I like Andrew Wheeler’s response, which also conveniently comments on (and links to) the other responses.