Now this is interesting: "Caprica"

How about this, then!

SciFi Channel announced the development of Caprica, a spinoff prequel of its hit Battlestar Galactica, in presentations to advertisers in New York on April 26. Caprica would come from Galactica executive producers Ronald D. Moore and David Eick, writer Remi Aubuchon (24) and NBC Universal Television Studio.

Caprica would take place more than half a century before the events that play out in Battlestar Galactica. The people of the Twelve Colonies are at peace and living in a society not unlike our own, but where high technology has changed the lives of virtually everyone for the better.

But a startling breakthrough in robotics is about to occur, one that will bring to life the age-old dream of marrying artificial intelligence with a mechanical body to create the first living robot: a Cylon. Following the lives of two families, the Graystones and the Adamas (the family of William Adama, who will one day become the commander of the Battlestar Galactica), Caprica will weave together corporate intrigue, techno-action and sexual politics into television's first science fiction family saga, the channel announced.

Going to be interesting to see how this unfolds...

Tags: Battlestar Galactica, Ronald D. Moore, David Eick, Cylon, Sci-Fi Channel, scifi

In the "Gilding the Lily" department: Painting the Apple

I've been thinking about the possibility of an Apple laptop for a while. Now, with the whole BootCamp thing going on, the possibility is more like a probability. And now this:

It seems like the rumors of multi-colored MacBook Pros were true, though Apple wasn't the one who dipped them in paint. ColorWare, purveyors of colorized high-end electronics, has added the 15-inch MacBook Pro (sorry, no 17-inch - yet) to their array of products you can purchase new and colorized. They also offer their colorizing service for those who need to add some colorful zing to that old 'n busted product you bought mere weeks ago.

A nice blue one...hmm.  There's a thought. But there's one other change I'd want made that I doubt these folks are equipped to handle:  I want the Apple without the Bite.

Tags: Apple, MacBook, color, colorizing, Colorware, ooh, shiny

Word of the day: "politicoendomasuchia"

Politicoendomasuchia, n: unease with the concept of politicians in costume.  -iast, one suffering from this unease.

(chuckle)  Looks like the Prime Minister of Canada may be enough of a Trekkie to have once appeared in a convention masquerade. Gasp! Stagger! Swoon! Yet another sign of the decline of Western civilization. Now Canadian bloggers are trying to find a picture to confirm the rumor. (Photoshopped fakes are already appearing.)

What will people who find this bothersome make of King Abdullah of Jordan, then? Or Stephen Hawking? (No, they'll say, it's OK in his case: he didn't actually dress up!)

(eyeroll)

Yup, just as I thought

Vaasya Viswanathan's novel has been pulled from the stores.