Stanislaw Lem is alive and well and still writing in Poland, and Steven Soderbergh is making a movie based on […]

Xian on Userland’s John Robb: I was picturing him commenting on NASA’s new space planes, by posting something like: “Those

Joseph Duemer is a philosopher, a poet, and a damn thoughtful weblogger. (via Matrullo)

Via bookslut: The Major Fall, the Minor Lift is a weblog of culture, literature, music commentary. I think. Looks interesting.

Via Joho: BeliefNet has emerged from bankruptcy and is now back online. This is the home of the nifty Belief-o-matic,

“You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such

Dan Gillmor: The control freaks are winning, and your privacy is just about gone.

More info on Poindexter’s Information Awareness Office, which should be getting plenty of funding now that the Homeland Security Act

Kevin Kelly has written a rousing, entertaining survey of recent thinking in cosmology, physics, and informatics in the latest issue

The International Children’s Digital Library debuts today with 200 books; 10,000 to be made available online in the project’s next