Isabella links to a report on a service that will beam weblog feeds into deep space:

bq. “We are giving bloggers the opportunity to send a piece of their lives into space to potentially connect with extraterrestrials,” said Ted Murphy, president and CEO of the Florida-based firm MindComet.

bq. The free service, BloginSpace.com, will beam web feeds of blogs into deep space via a powerful satellite broadcast, Agence France-Presse reports.

Actually, I think quite a number of translation bloggers have been beaming their stuff into deep space recently. It certainly hasn’t reached me in Fürth.

Isabella also links to a Daily Telegraph piece by a novelist who discovered his Russian translator was imprisoned for attacking an Azerbaijani fruit and veg display with a samurai sword.