Arthur C. Clarke, author and prophet (he prefers “extrapolator”) predicts what the next hundred years will bring. The end of the fossil fuel age is just three years away, when household cold-fusion devices become available.

Silly Y2K story: Maine’s State government got its first Y2K surprise months early when owners of 2000 model cars and trucks received titles identifying their new vehicles as “horseless carriages.”

The new season of Space Ghost Coast to Coast started this weekend with some all-out weirdness. But that’s to be expected, of course. You can find a transcript of the episode off Space Ghost’s wonderful official web site.

There’s another Kestrel’s Nest out there: I am a Wife & Mother, Witch & Bard, a Woman & Falcon….

When I first started using the nickname Kestrel some 15 years ago, first in role-playing games and then in the SCA, it was a unique name. When I moved to Georgia, I found there were already two other SCA Kestrels and on-line it’s near impossible to use that as a log-in name anywhere.

I’m quickly becoming a fan of the Public Radio program To the Best of our Knowledge. This show covers a wide range of topics, and has always been worth listening to.

Today’s show was titled “For the Love of Books”, and touched many of the topics that have been the focus of discussion in weblogs lately (see Peterme, Whim & Vinegar, and Bifurcated Rivets).

At AdAge.com, you can find, among other things, reviews of many advertising campaigns.

Tomorrow, August 12, the world population will reach 6 billion. This is up from 1.5 billion just 100 years ago. Many, many people have written dire essays regarding the population boom, but I’d never seen a well-written paper actually applauding it. Until Memepool passed on this article.

I saw a local production of Steve Martin’s Picasso at the Lapin Agile Sunday. This is a wonderfully written play, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. If it’s in your area, get yourself a ticket.

I’m finally over my cold/pnumonia thing. What a bear!

On the astronomy front, two articles on a massive tenth planet or brown dwarf inferred orbiting our sun, one from the BBC, and one from MSNBC. Inferring is all we’ll be able to do until the next-generation infrared orbital telescope is launched. We just don’t have anything that could see it right now.