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On 20 May 2010 an event known as "Digital Death Day" brought together the businesses of social networking, data management and death care. What happens to your online presence after you die?

The "dead-but-alive" telecommunications satellite, Galaxy-15, has begun to enter the space of neighbouring craft, and their operators are planning evasive action. Dancing satellites ...

"I don't know what it's like to be God - obviously ...Until that very first moment when you get to sit down and type the words in your script: INTERIOR. TARDIS." That nice Mr Gaiman on writing an episode of Doctor Who

A British scientist says he is the first man in the world to become infected with a computer virus. Well, 'become infected' on purpose: he has a chip in his hand ...

In other news, am floppy and achy after walk to beer festival yesterday and moderate intake. Perhaps post-viral nonsense not quite over yet.

2010/45: A Canticle for Leibowitz -- Walter Miller

A Canticle for Leibowitz -- Walter Miller

We have your bloody hatchets and your Hiroshimas. We march in spite of Hell, we do --
Atrophy, Entropy and Proteus vulgaris,
telling bawdy jokes about a far, girl name of Eve
and a travelling salesman called Lucifer.
We bury your dead and their reputations.
We bury you. We are the centuries ...
Generation, regeneration, again, again, as in a ritual, with bloodstained vestments and nailtorn hands, children of Merlin, chasing a gleam. (p.259)

( somewhat spoilery review )