I can't even think how terrible it will be while I travel to keep up. Do you guys feel that way? Will we invent a little screen for our eyeglasses that scrolls blogs all day for us? That would help. What else? It's an information world and there's too many talented bloggers. We should vote some off the island or something. Of course, since I just said that - it means you can't vote me off. ha!
Which makes me think of the books I read this weekend - for anyone into sort of near future speculative fiction-y kind of stuff - I totally recommend PopCo
by Scarlett Thomas, and, although I found the science a bit more than I wanted in a novel (there's really not a lot of it, but it hurt my little brain), Greg Bear's Darwin's Radio. Excellent reads and unique ideas, both of them. I've mentioned before that I always used to write things down when I read / heard about them so I could look them up in the library but that I love the internet because now I can look them up right away - so here's a couple of the interesting things I looked up lately that various books have referenced...
The girl in PopCo drank Gunpowder Tea and now I really want to try it.
Some of the women in Darwin's Radio were using Quinacrine to sterilize themselves.
And, from Dan Brown's Angels & Demons
, his reference to the controversy caused by the look on Theresa's face in The Ecstasy of St Theresa was interesting to look into.Oh, and ONLY NINE MORE DAYS OF WORK! Wahoooooo!