Week 85

06.23.03

Found this neat-o space-tether on "Futurismic."

http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/
technology/tether_tech_030618-1.html

Futurismic, hey, that's a good blog.

http://futurismic.com/index.html

06.24.03

http://www.ojr.org/ojr/uploads/
1056011147.htm

Okay, that's handy; the loudest mouths in blogdom.

http://www.ojr.org/ojr/glaser/
1056050270.php

06.25.03

Dunno how I managed this long without my own anti-gravity flying saucer to Mars.

http://www.gctspace.com/products/
unmanned/mars1.html

06.26.03

When these guys do their Internet "Weekly Piracy Report," they don't mean software piracy or music piracy. They mean real yo-ho-ho pirates who jump on ships and rob them.

http://www.iccwbo.org/ccs/imb_piracy/
weekly_piracy_report.asp

http://www.iccwbo.org/ccs/imb_piracy/
piracy_maps2002.asp

06.27.03

This medieval Arab assassin, Rashid al-din Sinan, had supernatural powers.  (In reality, he probably had messenger pigeons.)  Conversing with invisible beings, taming snakes, familiar with 360 parallel worlds, hey, this cat is a historical-fantasy goldmine!

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/
anthony.campbell1/assassins/sinan.html

There was quite a lot of Assassin hashish around at the time.  Imagine being a 12th century Moslem or French Crusader and also being stoned. Man, anything would be possible.

http://www.alamut.com/subj/ideologies/
alamut/mirza-Sinan.html

http://www.forward.com/issues/2003/
03.05.09/philologos.html

The guy talked just like bin Laden does 800 years later.

http://ismaili.net/~heritage/
hero/sinan2.html

In this romance novel, Sinan's assassin ninja daughter gets captured and tamed by a manly hunk of a crusader.  Wow!

http://www.tinastjohn.com/blb-detail.html

Bruce Sterling writes books like Darwin watched animals. Find out more about him, and read tattered electronic copies of Cheap Truth, at the Bruce Sterling Online Index. He lives with his wife Nancy and their two daughters in Austin, Texas.