Okay, here’s another groupmind query: does anyone know of a good application that would serve as an alternative to Microsoft Outlook? (Note: not to Outlook Express, which is just for email, but to Outlook, which has scheduling functions.) But here’s the catch: I also want this program to be able to sync up with my Pocket PC as well, as Outlook does. I’ve found programs that will replace my Pocket PC calendar program, and I have found things to replace Outlook, but nothing that will do what I want: sync my Pocket PC’s and my desktop PC’s scheduling information. (The email aspect of Outlook is irrelevant to me, so that doesn’t factor into this.)

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Does anyone know of a good website that will help me find complete lists of new DVD releases, preferably sortable by category? You know, so I can take a look at what new SF/fantasy DVDs are coming out without having to spend hours browsing. Anyone? Bueller?

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Matt Kressel, editor and publisher of Sybil’s Garage, tells me:

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David Louis Edelman asks: “Why did you buy that book?”

I want to hear from science fiction and fantasy readers and consumers. Pick three recent SF/F titles that you’ve purchased, and add a comment telling the world how you heard about them, and what inspired you to buy them. “It was sitting on the bookshelf at Borders next to Robert Heinlein and I liked the cover” counts, as does “one of my friends told me about it” or “Amazon told me that I would like it because I recently purchased Paddy Chayefsky’s Altered States.” Extra points for the out-of-the-ordinary. You can tell me how you found/purchased Infoquake if you’d like, but it’s not necessary; any SF title will do.

Please make your comments over there so the conversation will all be in one place.
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A couple weeks ago, as I was driving home from work, I noticed, by the entrance to the Pulaski Skyway, this odd message written in giant neon letters across the face of what appears to be an abandoned factory. It said:

I pondered this for a while, trying to puzzle out its meaning. I scribbled it down, asked Gordon about it, who couldn’t make sense of it either. Eventually, I remembered to google it. Turns out, the phrase wraps around the building (which kind of makes it impossible to read the whole thing from any angle, I think), so I wasn’t seeing the whole thing. The entire phrase is:

Which doesn’t really make sense to me either. Apparently, this is a piece of conceptual art by Mary Ellen Carroll called “Indestructable Language.” I read her explanation of it here, but I still don’t understand the phrase or what this is supposed to accomplish, unless its goal is to perplex commuters and possibly cause accidents.

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