One more reason to declare a separation of science and state. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72927-0.html?tw=wn_technology_3.. So will textbooks in New Mexico be technically out of compliance if they use the IAU's definition of planet? I mean, it's a law, right?

The deadline is April 9th, so get your near-future space exploration-related SF short story submissions in to the James Patrick Baen Memorial Writing Contest. It's cosponsored by the National Space Society and the magazine Jim Baen's Universe. More information is available at http://www.nss.org// and http://www.baens-un[...]ticles/Baen_contest.

NAEB has a new specs page up for the e-book reader I mentioned before. It's at http://www.naebllc.com/page4.html..