Tentacles The SF Reviews newsletter, 22nd April 2012

To new subscribers (repeated from the previous newsletter, March 2011)

Yes, this is meant to be monthly. Frankly though I'm just not up to it. Think of it as occasional newsletter with monthly aspirations.

To old subscribers
Well you knew that already. Still the pistons are thumping and we're picking up speed once more.

"Consider the daffodil. And while you're doing that, I'll be over here, going through your stuff."
- Jack Handey

Science note 1 - MS damage washed away by stream of young blood

Potentially great news in the New Scientist for MS sufferers - see MS damage washed away by stream of young blood but - maybe more in the future - potentially great news for the rest of us. Even though it doesn't have to be your own blood, I want to say here and now - to put a stake in the ground as it were - that this does not justify Vampirism. I quite fancy having some young blood washed through my veins, clearing up the debris and triggering the regeneration of whatever they touch. If however, boffins could for example take a couple of my stem cells and breed up a big barrel of blood then I'd be happy to flush with that. Even better though if they find out why young blood fixes things better than older blood.

I was a Boy Scout and there's no harm in being prepared so I think it's time to watch a few vampire movies. I'll start with The Lost Boys.

But we can't scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this is what annoys me.
-Jack Handey

Goodbye murky green

The massive Max organization has channelled its resources to revamping the glorious SF Reviews site. You're looking at it now. Stunning, isn't it.

In particular, it's no longer murky green. It's white. [Yes, Jane your wish is my command. It took ten years. No, I'm not that slow on CSS, I was simply distracted. Anyway it required substantial testing. Furthermore this is nothing more than a blip on the normal SF Reviews glacial timescale.]

Remember how it used to look?

So Twentieth.

The other brilliant new feature is that the newsletters are now searchable, not just the reviews. Wow.

Take care

Max

(max@sfreviews.com)