The 2008 Clarion class is settled into their new spaces at UCSD, and has begun this year’s Workshop under the trusted guidance of Kelly Link. Tania Mayer’s been spending lots of time with them, and I had the time to have dinner with them last night over at Canyon Vista, whose website, for reasons I don’t understand, doesn’t show the canyon for whose vista it is named.

Anyway, lots of little things to catch up on, now that they’re settled:

  • The new Star Trek exhibit at the San Diego Air and Space Museum in Balboa Park. It’s blogged here at Wired, and written up in the San Diego Union-Tribune here. It’s a little pricy at $24 a head, but for the serious fan, well worth it.
  • I’ve been shlepping around a copy of an article in the May 28, 2008 Boston Phoenix article called, “Rage Against the Machines!” It asks the question, “Could robots take over the world?” and decides the answer is probably yes. I mostly like it for the fact that it runs through the gamut of worries about robots, rather than that I agree with its breathless litany of fears. It’s a fun article.
  • If you haven’t Twittered, you probably don’t want to Plurk — but if you’ve done either, you may just be seriously addicted to them. Plurk is particularly addictive, in that it puts people’s Twitters into some kind of organization. So you can track the ramblings of your good friend Goomoo, f.x., or switch to tracking Goomoo and his friends. I clicked on one of the friends, and found myself tracking Twitters off the technology blog StartupMeme. At that point, I shut it down, lest I be trapped there all day. Then I went back, set up a Clarion account, and dropped a plurk. I’m such a sucker for a new technology…