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A rundown of the progress made by the twin Mars rovers. Read the full story.

Nuketown has a launched a libertarian science fiction page collecting commentary, book reviews, movie reviews and links from around the Web.

The url of the Web page is:
http://www.nuketown.com/features/libertariansf/

The impetus behind this page was a speech I gave at a meeting of the Pocono Libertarians a few years back on "Libertarian Themes in Science Fiction." As a life-long science fiction fan, and later a libertarian, the unity of the two subjects always seemed obvious to me. But at that meeting I discovered that many of my fellow libertarian-minded citizens either hadn't heard of the books and movies I was mentioning, or hadn't thought of them in a libertarian light.

Vanished Planet is a cooperative board game in which players struggle to prevent an ever-growing, inky-black entity from enveloping the galaxy.

At the start of the game the Earth has been consumed by the entity, and has apparently been transferred to another dimension. The creature has already begun expanding beyond the Sol system, and it is only a matter of time until it envelops all of Earth's allies as well. But all is not lost -- the Earth may be gone, but she hasn't been destroyed. Her scientists have discovered a way to communicate with those remaining in our galaxy, and have come up with a plan to defeat the entity and return Earth to normal space. Now all the allies have to do is complete Earth's missions before their own worlds are consumed by the entity.

An article that looks at the growing RSS phenomenon. Read the full story.

Remember folks -- no one's supposed to be watching the watchmen. Read the full story.

The crew working on the twin Mars probes never quite know what music they'll be greeted with at the office. Read the full story.

An old e-mail hoax featuring the Budweiser Frogs has recently re-surfaced with a slighly re-tooled message of digital destruction.

The original version of the e-mail, which I last remember seeing when the Budweiser Frogs were still popular (about 1999) just promised to destroy your hard drive. But in keeping with the times, the new version also claims the virus will also steal your screen name and password and send it to "someone" on the net. That's last bit is a real tactic that some viruses try, but it doesn't make this hoax any more true.

Some say we shouldn't pursue offensive and defensive space capabilities, because it'll compel others to do the same. The counter-strategy seems we won't be attacked if we leave ourselves vulnerable. Because, you know, that worked so well with 9/11... Read the full story.

David Coursey, executive editor for ZDNet, has three PCs running Windows, and all of them are out of commission. So he did what he always does in such situation -- he turned to his Mac running the rock-solid OS X. Read the full story.