• A test of your moral character: The Science Channel offers these interesting posts. Which link will you click first?
  • 10 Questions of Theoretical Physicist Michio Kaku.
  • Top Ten Hot Alien Chicks.


• Robert J. Sawyer spoke at the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania about cognitive science, neuroscience, and "other areas that informed the portrayal of a sentient World Wide Web in his 2009 novel Wake and the uploaded consciousnesses in his 2005 John W. Campbell Memorial Award-winning novel Mindscan." WARNING: There be spoilers in this 80-minute podcast!


• The nominees for this year's Ditmar Awards (Australian fan-voted awards) have been announced. [via Science Fiction Awards Watch]


• Free Comics [courtesy of QuasarDragon]
  • @Grantbridge Street & other misadventures: "The Pit of Fear."
  • @The Horrors of It All: "Blood of the Zombie."


• The Website at the End of the Universe looks at the rise and fall of the science fiction convention.


• Alastair Reynolds has written a new story called "Monkey Suit" which is set in the Revelation Space universe. [via Blue Tyson]


• Not everyone is salivating over the new Trek. To wit: Ian Randal Strock and Cory Doctorow.

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