It’s just one of those fun things of our wonderfully strange calendar that this year we have not one, not two, but three ill-luck Fridays. I’m not terribly paranoid of the day myself, but I do love the air of otherness it seems to gather about itself. No, what interests me more about this particular day is that it’s the 79th anniversary of the announcement of Pluto to the world. It is also Pluto Day in Illinois, who recently declared that Pluto was a planet as long in it was over it, a move I applaud. For me there will always be nine planets – after nearly 80 years shouldn’t it at least have squatter’s rights? Pluto is a downright magical planet – a little rock that embodies how much we don’t really know about our own ceslestial neighborhood. An excellent link for today is Ten Things You Don’t Know About Pluto.
I also discovered Google Sky today, which is simply amazing. I could waste hours with it. Google Mars is also worth a note here – an excellent resource for sci-fi writers in my opinion.