Here’s something way cool, via SF writer Walter Jon Williams. Did you know that a mechanical computer was created 2,000 years ago in Greece (Antikythera, to be exact)? Now some folks have created a replica using Legos.
New Scientist TV: World’s oldest computer recreated in Lego.
GoodReads.com is holding their annual reader’s choice awards. There are some excellent books on the list (Who Fears Death? Cryoburn, and The Fuller Memorandum all excellent books), and some I haven’t read yet that I’m now intrigued by (Zero History, Surface Detail, Freedom(TM), The Evolutionary Void). Check them out: here are all the science fiction, fantasy, and paranormal fantasy candidates.