Just don't give the super squids space travel!

Well said!

Ah, sorry! Not very observant - I glanced at it and sent the PDF to my ipod to read later.

This is something that always bothered me immensely, because it seems like it should be the case, but I've never seen it described that way.

If you're asking what I think you're asking, then an important difference between the big bang singularity and a black hole singularity is that the big bang singularity was spacelike, whereas black hole singularities are timelike. In other words, the big bang singularity exists entirely in our past, but extended…

Scientific American also has another naked singularity article on their website.

Palimpsest is really good! I hope you enjoy it. If you haven't already read them, I also recommend Charlie's short stories/novellas Missile Gap, A Colder War, and Antibodies.

I still only buy paper books.

And if you do only want it as an ebook, I've got Mountains on Stanza, along with hundreds of other free ebooks for when I'm stuck with only my iPhone and no paper books for company. If it's on Stanza it's probably elsewhere.

I like it too. Perhaps it's something like: Observers are people who have been "Grandfather Paradoxed" out of history and yet somehow still exist - like the time corps in Charlie Stross's Palimpsest, who have to kill their younger selves during initiation. Something like that would totally work for Fringe.

Absolutely, and I'll be interested in to see what he does with it. The "3D" movies I've really enjoyed use the stereoscopic effect in a very subtle way; once my eyes adjust I largely forget I'm watching an additional effect, and just integrate it as another depth cue. As Christopher Nolan quite sensibly points out,…

I recently picked up the Watchmen Director's Cut, we were talking about it here on the ODeck.

After reading the interview transcript, I think it's fairly clear that Charlize Theron is joking when she says, "I'm naked, the entire time."

Quite so, and better than a poke in the eye. I don't bother seeing much at the cinema anymore (I'd rather spend the same money on a BluRay) but there's certainly more than enough about Prometheus to make me buy a ticket. Ridley Scott movies always look and sound very good; they're films I enjoy savoring for their…

I clicked on that link expecting something rather different from Ridley Scott talking perfectly sensibly about his enthusiasm for new filming technology.

I cannot stand River, and I hope to see as little of her as possible in future (although some of the companions from the Tennant era were irritating enough to make stop me watching altogether).

That would have been so much better! I'd never heard that - until I saw Chip Overlock mention it, just now, in a completely unrelated post on the ODeck. Weird!

That actually sounds a lot more promising! Early interviews strongly suggested they didn't know how their time travel conceit worked and didn't care.

You do that too?

It was this sort of thing: