Salon has an interview with Joe Firmage, the founder of USWeb who was run out of his job after he went on a big UFO kick. Firmage seems to have backed away from tales of alien visitation since he originally published his book (humbly titled The Truth) on the Web. He now seems more focused on science education and a new propulsion system that his alien visitor told him about. (That was a gratuitous swipe, but I couldn’t resist). In the interview, Firmage talks about how science is generally marked by radical ideas that create immense change. If you want to read a learned account of how this works, check out The Structure of Scientific Revolutions , by Thomas S. Kuhn.
My author comments for my new CGI book have been posted at Amazon.com. They’re boring, but they let people know what background they need for the book to be useful.
I sure wish I’d been in New York yesterday to see the tall ships at OpSail. I thought this picture of a Colombian ship with the crew on the rigging was particularly cool. Apparently, not even all of the people who showed up to watch the ships got to see them, because they turned around before they came within view of the poorer parts of New York. How hurtful to the people that live there. (A reader points out that the ships very well may have turned around due to wind or water conditions, not political conditions, which is probably the case.)