News: May 2004 Archives
Physicist: Cosmos Is Shaped Like the Eiffel Tower - The universe looks like the Eiffel Tower topped with a never-ending spire, a German physicist said Wednesday.
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A full transcript of Bruce Sterling's Lecture/Rant of the Moment in support of The Zenith Angle Book Tour at Microsoft Campus, 1:30 PM, May 21, 2004 [Via Vanguard Report]. Very entertaining and gets you thinking, would have cool to see him speak (has he been to the UK recently on a tour?).
Simon Pegg is signing at Forbidden Planet Megastore in London, this lunchtime [Via SFCrowsNest]. Doh, I'm not working in London today. Mind you I also have no idea how long it would take to get from the office to Forbidden Planet anyway. But if you are in London you have 1 hour....get going! And if you've never seen Spaced then get it, it's genius.
Ansible has a full transcript of Chris Priest's Concourse Guest of Honour Speech. Ansible itself is a must read as usual.
Bruce Sterling will be giving the keynote address at SIGGRAPH 2004 (the 31st International Conference on Computer Graphics & Interactive Techniques). The address is titled "When Blobjects Rule the Earth," and will speculate on the future of graphic simulation when practical differences no longer exist between computer-generated models and physical, manufactured objects.[Via Digital Producer Magazine]
Also on a Bruce Sterling track Salon review "The Zenith Angle". A nice review worth reading, even if nowadays you have to sit through an advert to read the full content of Salon articles. It's noted that "Starting today, Salon begins biweekly reviews of new science fiction and fantasy books." Cool.
Just been working in Tenerife for a few days, hence the absence. Although we had a wifi connection I didn't get chance to do any blogging. The big thing that struck me about Tenerife was that its landscape is very science fiction in a post apocalyptic, Mad Max, Planet Of The Apes style. It was also very reminiscent of those orginal Star Trek episodes where Kirk would land on an alien planet looking suspiciously like southern California and (usually) have a fight and rip his short, Not sure exactly how many of those episodes there were but it felt like every other one.
Anyway, back in rainy England and blogging again.
