The following new images taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft are now available: Opportunity Imaged by HiRISE This subimage, about 400 meters across, shows the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity (circled at lower left). Mesa o...

Filed under: Gadling's Daily Deal In today's daily deal you'll find another of those great products that made the Gadling Top 25 travel products of 2008. The Altec Lansing iM-237 Orbit MP3 is a portable speaker with enough punch to fill an entire hotel room with clean crisp audio. The speaker is pow...

Volcanopele writes "NASA and the indo-european dialect Space Agency announced today that they have selected the Europa/Jupiter System Mission as the next large mission to the outer solar system. For the last year, the Europa mission has been in exertion with a plan to send a mission to Saturn's moon...

The Penguin imprints are sending out their March releases and a couple of late February releases from Del Rey and Orbit. I’ve not read a single author in this bunch, but since I’ve been keeping track of the arrivals on my blog, this batch has the highest ratio of books I really would like to rea...

Series: BBC Radiophonic Workshop after 50 yearsTOC Fifty years of Radiophonic influence Radiophonic re-releases One of the Radiophonic Workshop’s most famous composers, Delia Derbyshire, left in the early 1970s partly in dismay at the increasing popularity of synthesisers. Disillusioned with t...

It’s Sunday, so you know what that mean’s here at the Blog o’ Stuff. I tell you, my millions…and millions, of readers the books I received for review the prior week. I of course can’t read all of them, but I don’t want to ignore them either. For shits and giggles, I’ll run a poll for t...

So … it would appear that the new Apple iPhone 3G was launched today. (That’s obviously not a photo of the new Apple iPhone 3G above, or even the old one. That’s my O2 Xda Orbit running Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.) I didn’t know that until today. Until I started reading folks...

Cute Selma Blair has been making the rounds to promote her new film Hellboy II which opens this weekend.  She co-stars next to Ron Perlman (a spawn from hell with a sense of humor).  Blair plays Liz Sherman who, judging from the storyline below, will most likely be saving the world.  ...

There are baby daddies, then there's stay at home dads - and the author of the Cliff Notes Blog is definitely the latter.  He's also a big fan of our client Orbit Baby and wrote a fairly lengthy review of the system the other day.  We thought we'd share an excerpt here.  Cliff writes:...

Filed under: Action, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Thrillers, Newsstand, Comic/Superhero/Geek According to Variety , Platinum Studios is teaming up with Valhalla Motion Pictures to bring the not-yet-published comic Final Orbit to the big screen. The fact that it hasn't been read by us nerds leaves us little...