Something unknown has caused one girl to stop aging at 6 months old. Her mom says they’re just waiting “to see what tomorrow brings”… I predict it will bring a lot of people wanting whatever condition she has bottled and sold– but adjusted to let them stop aging at their present age, or around age 22. Via Practical Demonkeeping: Forever Young
Month: April 2006
Korean Robot Nannies
Here’s more on that.
Writing Science Fiction During the Third World War
The sorta-dead The Infinite Matrix has Eleanor Arnason’s great speech/essay on the subject. Worth a read, and look around there while you’re there.
James Morrow | Interviews | SCI FI Weekly
James Morrow on Intelligent Design: Intelligent design theory is technically a different beast from creationism, because its advocates do allow that natural selective pressures may have shaped the destiny of the primordial—supposedly exogenous—organic molecules. The apostles of ID do not automatically dismiss the possibility of the modern horse emerging from the eohippus through evolution. They would even argue that the intelligent designer is not ipso facto the creator-god of Christian revelation, though it’s obvious they’re sponsoring him for the job. For my money, the whole enterprise should not be called intelligent design theory but rather IDIOT—Intelligent Design Implicit Onto-Theology. ID …
Age of Embodiment
Age of Embodiment isa blog on technology and culture run by the Canadian SF author Karl Schroeder. There are so many good posts I’m just linking directly.
Happy Easter…
For those who celebrate the holiday today, Happy Easter to you.
Angry Asian-Americans Against Adidas
Well, 40 of them. More on the Ray Fong adicolor shoe hullaballoo. Perhaps Adidas screwed up. But the artist whose tag they used is Asian himself! (Well, half-Asian, as they point out, but that’s more than enough for him to identify. And if they hadn’t noticed, the Angry Asian Man they cited, he’s annoyed about EVERYTHING.)
A Coupla Films
Let’s see, what have I watched lately? A Sound of Thunder. I can’t say it was all bad. I mean, those primate/reptile predator critters were pretty cool. Imaginatively conceived preadtory megafauna, yeah, I like it. But the film was also chock full of almost-good-enough CGI that, well, frankly, just wasn’t quite good enough. But what bothered me more about this movie was what it has with so much other TV/film SF: the science comes last, if at all, and the Wow, cool! concept comes first. Except that the Wow, cool! concept isn’t so cool, and doesn’t make me go wow. …
Christians Sue for Right To Be Excluded From The Bitchun Society To Come
Some wingnut far-right Christians are suing for the right not to have to attend tolerance training and the like. “What if a person felt their religious view was that African Americans shouldn’t mingle with Caucasians, or that women shouldn’t work?” asked Jon Davidson, legal director of the gay rights group Lambda Legal. Christian activist Gregory S. Baylor responds to such criticism angrily. He says he supports policies that protect people from discrimination based on race and gender. But he draws a distinction that infuriates gay rights activists when he argues that sexual orientation is different — a lifestyle choice, not …
Grups
New York Magazine has an interesting piece about Grups, which are sold as “The Ascendant Breed of Grown-Ups Who Are Redefining Adulthood”. It’s weirdly familiar to me, and though I’m not a trendoid hipster like some of these people described, I sure do have my doubts about the version of adulthood that was passed on to me by My Culture. EDIT: By the way, I think this was via Weird is Relative.