Today Bruce Sterling sends me a picture by Warwick Goble of a woman holding up a jellyfish. A suitable symbol for augury at the start of this new year.

And John Brockman's webzine Edge has posted responses to the annual Edge question; the 2006 question being “What is Your Dangerous Idea?” I'm honored to appear among the assembled answerers, arguing that everything is conscious and that therefore death is in some measure inconsequential — perhaps causing some to ponder, “Who let that guy in?”

Audio files for some of our podcasts are gone, due to bit rot and unreliable hosts…
But you can look over the existing stash in the Rudy Rucker Podcasts Archive.

And…there’s always the videos on Rudy’s YouTube Channel! Not that these have anything to do with the missing podcasts. But they’re fun.