Rocketing toward first flight: Gary Lantz of Rocketplane Limited talks to Out of the Cradle about sub orbital launches and how close Rocketplane Limited is.
The Moon’s Smell
NASA’s Apollo Chronicles has a section dicussing what the the moon smelled like.
“Ordinary Wolves”
by Seth Kantner
Highly lyrical literary novel about a boy growing up in Alaska.
Nanotech Round-up
Baffled by some of my nanotech posts? The excellent WorldChanging.com has an excellent link-laden round-up of current developments in this fast-growing field of science. Includes info about titanium nanotubes, ethical research, nanotubes wrapped in DNA and a look at that most popular of current SF tropes, the nanofactory. [WorldChanging.com]
Net Producing Post-literate Pseudo-medieval Culture?
A nice slice of technophobia here – a journalist from the UK’s ‘News of the World’ paper has been saying that the internet could produce a society that works on mythology, sound-bites and symbolism. So, finishing the job his tawdry organ has been doing for years, then. [PhysOrg.com]