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Helix #7, Winter 2008 is available 2008-01-02 17:08:00 Helix, the speculative fiction quarterly online magazine has posted its' 7th issue which is the Winter 2008 issue. Here is a listing of the fiction. For a complete listing, click the article title which links to the new issue. * "Suicide Drive" by Charlie Anders - Father doesn't always know best. * "Seraphim" by Maya Bohnhoff - Sweet dreams and flying machines. * "Night of the ...

Stargate Worlds want you! well maybe your image... 2008-01-02 16:48:00 According to SF Signals: Like Stargate SG-1? Like to play MMORPGs? Then this contest may be for you. Beginning with this season of Stargate Atlantis, Sci Fi will be air a 'gate code' which, when entered at the contest's web site will give you another entry to win. The winner will receive their likeness place somewhere within the Stargate Worlds MMO game, which will release this fall. ...

SETI@home needs YOU! 2008-01-02 15:46:00 According to the ScienceDaily online magazine: The longest-running search for radio signals from alien civilizations is getting a burst of new data from an upgraded Arecibo telescope, which means the SETI @ home project needs more desktop computers to help crunch the data. Since SETI@home launched eight years ago, the project has signed up more than 5 million interested volunteers. Yet, new ...

Sci-Fi on TV for the second half of the 2007-2008 season -grim- 2008-01-02 15:23:00 Mark Wilson of "Mark's Sci-Fi /Fantasy Blog speculates on the grimness of the remaining tv sci-fi season, as the writer's strike continues to wreak havoc on new and returning shows. The only bright side is that some of the new shows scheduled for startup have something fresh for us to watch. As Mark puts it: When the writers' strike stopped production on the current season, most of the shows ...

Video: Who's on first - Yoda or Jar Jar 2008-01-02 15:12:00 For your viewing terror pleasure, a mashup of the seminally classic “Who’s On First” comedy routine by Abbott & Costello, remixed with “retro” footage of Yoda and Jar Jar Binks from Episode I. Unsurprisingly, Jar Jar really works as a histrionic straight man. If only the actual movie were this well written, or had material this fresh. ...

Microsoft Seeks Patent On Monitoring Employees' Brains 2007-12-29 11:19:00 Hey Shaun, check this out!!!!!! I just found it on TechDirt, looks like FabCola is just another way of saying Microsoft! A just-published Microsoft patent application for Monitoring Group Activities describes how a company or the government can determine if employees are not meeting their project deadlines through the use of detection components comprised of 'one or more physiological or ... Microsoft

Asteroid Impact on Mars: Collision Probability Increased 2007-12-28 23:00:00 The chance that asteroid 2007 WD5 will impact Mars on January 30th has increased from 1.3 percent to 3.9 percent. That’s the new estimation from the Near Earth Object Program at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The impact probability resulting from recent orbital refinement that have increased the chances to a surprising 3.9 percent. ...

Two Sci-Fi Classics Picked for Preservation 2007-12-28 20:13:00 FromMark's Sci-Fi / Fantasy Blog Two classic sci-fi films, Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis, 1985) and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg, 1977), are among the 25 films selected this year to be preserved by the Library of Congress National Film Registry, with the intent that they are available for future generations to enjoy. The announcement by the Librarian of Congress ...

“Love + Sex With Robots” 2007-12-28 15:03:00 Cory Doctorow's Boing Boing pointed me towards this interesting, unsettling and I must admit at times, horrifying interview with author David Levy in the blog "I am not even trying" - concerning the psychological, economic and the social implications of using robots as sexual partners, better known as sexbots. Some of the questions addressed are: What essentially human traits do you envision ...

Modern Beetles Predate Dinosaurs 2007-12-27 14:19:00 From AOL News online New research hints that modern-day versions of the insects are far older than any tyrannosaur that trod the Earth. The vast amount of beetle species were thought to have arisen 140 million years ago, during the rise of flowering plants. But the new study of beetle DNA and fossils, published in the journal Science, pushes their appearance back to 300 million years ago. ...

XKCD spoofs Blade Runner. 2007-12-26 18:25:00 This is funny....but come to think of it....I know people like this! click on the cartoon graphic to see the larger graphic or here, to go to the cartoon ...

FBI aims for world's largest biometrics database 2007-12-26 15:13:00 Dave T. sends in this tidbit. Shaun Saunders has been warning about this from day one with MallCity and look at Cory Doctorow's Scroogled, both tell tales of one government entity or another amassing personal data to the extreme. Check this out: The Washington Post reports that: The FBI is embarking on a $1 billion project to build the world's largest computer database of biometrics to ...

Astronomers discovered the largest diamond of all times in space. 2007-12-26 14:20:00 I found this article an interesting intellectual exercise. Why? Well, anyone that has studied even basic astronomy has heard about white dwarf stars and how they are formed, and what their makeup is like in latter stages of their life. Basically what I found interesting is that I understood the sequences of a star like our own or slightly larger going off main sequence. Going through it red ...

Documentary: The Order Electrus 2007-12-25 17:30:00 In the weird and oddly disturbing department I give you this... A short film from the warped minds over at Microbia. Called - Documentary: The Order Electrus, it's wonderfully brilliant and twisted all at the same time. Thanks to the folks over at Suicide Bots for the post ...

The Sci Fi Sounds Quiz: Identify sounds from science fiction movies and TV. 2007-12-25 02:38:00 I was going to say this is a bit lame, but you know, I laughed my way through this, and thought it wildly funny at the results I received. So, even though it's goofy, it's also great fun. See how many of the sci-fi movie sounds you can identify! I received 79 credits on The Sci Fi Sounds Quiz How much of a Sci-Fi geek are you? Take the Sci-Fi Movie Quiz canon ... Movies