(From Rossignol). Lumme, that’s amazing. Either someone’s spent hours making thousands of remote controlled special effects, or bio-organic lifeforms are with us. I sincerely hope it’s the latter. Can we hurry up and live in the future now? Dammit, I want scientists meddling with our genetic code, I want implants and cyborg elements, I want…

Voigt-Kampf Industries MODEL VK2016v1.5 Neat-o. (Not Netto). A working Voight-Kampff tester. Well, working in that it makes the motions, shows your eye on the screen, the bellow work and so on. It still can’t tell the difference between replicants and humans as there are no humans. I mean, replicants. Course I mean replicants, ho and…

Societies worse off ‘when they have God on their side’ – Britain – Times Online: “The paper, published in the Journal of Religion and Society, a US academic journal, reports: “Many Americans agree that their churchgoing nation is an exceptional, God-blessed, shining city on the hill that stands as an impressive example for an increasingly…

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | X-Prize man launches rocket race: “Peter Diamandis, the man behind the $10m X-Prize for suborbital space travel, has brought forward his new initiative: the Rocket Racing League. The RRL will see Grand Prix-style races between rocket planes, flown by top pilots through a ‘3D trackway’ just 5,000ft (1,500m) above the…

Will We Merge With Machines? – Popular Science: “Telekinesis Tech • • • 11 – 15 years Researchers at Brown University and Cyberkinetics in Foxborough, Massachusetts, are devising brain implants that will enable us to communicate with machines. A microchip implanted in the motor cortex just beneath your skull will intercept nerve signals and reroute…