Blowing up the solar system

Why settle for just destroying the planet? Twelve SFish ways we could wreck the whole darn solar system, and maybe more.

The Easter Rising, 1916

I do not feel qualified to discuss this, so I will just note that this is the 100th anniversary of a major turning point in Irish history.

The Blinovitch Limitation Effect in practice

Four Sets of Identical Twins Staged a Time Travel Prank on an NYC Subway

And it looks awesome.

"Making my Doctor Who he is"

Peter Capaldi’s thank you letter and sketch to Doctor Who comic artist Rachel Stott.

Caroline Herschel

Caroline Herschel, astronomer and comet hunter, receives an animated Google Doodle spreading the word on her 266th birthday.

Rakhee Thakrar in the TARDIS?

I would be cool with this rumour, having cast here in one of my DWAITAS games.

Meanwhile, Peter Capaldi has been speaking about the show wandering the BBC One schedule. I concur. Down with this sort of thing.

Want to drop the Doctor into a movie? Siskoid has some suggestions.

The Aliens on e4

A new British genre series, The Aliens is... well, it’s District 9 with humanoids, really. A customs and immigration officer on the wall keeping refugee aliens out of human civilisation. As metaphors go its pretty familiar, and the alien ghetto has a similar run-down look. The aliens being humanoid gives it a less them-and-us initial setup, and being a series it individualises more aliens.

Clara Rockmore

Another lovely interactive Google Doodle for the, er, 105th birthday of Clara Rockmore, inventor of the Theremin. An example of her work shows how it is supposed to sound before it became the instrument of choice for alien invasions in the 1950s. It remains a reminder of the unseen effect we can have on the world.

Ray Tomlinson

Ray Tomlinson, inventor of email, has died aged 74.

Happy World Book Day! (Not to be confused with World Book Night, which it usually is.)