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This was a great idea from a blogger I thought I'd pass along to challenge you all with.

Can you write a six-word story? Post them as a comment to my Dot.

Quoted: Ernest Hemingway was once prodded to compose a complete story in six words. His answer, personally felt to be his best prose ever, was "For sale: baby shoes, never used." Some people say it was to settle a bar bet. Others say it was a personal challenge directed at other famous authors.

This is a weirdly cool site about inventions made from science fiction books and movies.

Quoted: Technovelgy has over 950 science fiction ideas and inventions, and hundreds of SF made real articles.

Benjamen Walker's "Theory of Everything" blog has a ten minute podcast talkign about recently deceased Russian author Stanislaw Lem. I would like to check this out tonight.

Kevin J. Anderson talks about "The Ashes of Worlds", the final volume in the Saga of Seven Suns.

A short story by George Dyson to read later.

Quoted: When Ed examined the traffic, he realized that Google was doing more than mapping the digital universe. Google doesn't merely link or point to data. It moves data around. Data that are associated frequently by search requests are locally replicated—establishing physical proximity, in the real universe, that is manifested computationally as proximity in time. Google was more than a map. Google was becoming something else.

Quite clever

Chronicles of Narnia - The Last Battle Audio book Mp3 download With a stupid and gullible donkey posing as Aslan and the devious ape, Shirt, in charge, confused talking beasts and dwarves are allowing themselves to be sold into slavery in neighbouring Calormen.