Being in Yokohama Japan at the end of August would be for many fans of science fiction could be the event of the year. Registration fee and location will keep all but the most dedicated of fen from attending but those who get a second mortgage or forgo grad school will have an totally other world experience. There is not much under programming (not a big surprise there, this far out it’s rare for a science fiction convention to have a definite list of programming) but from this you get the general idea:
English language programming will include the gamut of programming that Worldcons have come to expect. Topics will range from aardvark (Animals in Space? Traditions of Animal Transformations in Eastern and Western Mythologies?) to zygote (Alien Biologies? Reproduction in Space?) and lots of ideas in between.
The usual convention events will be going on, a masquerade, dealers room, hall prizes, and the chance to talk to famous and not so famous people from all over the planet who all share have the common interest of scifi.
If this sounds like your idea of a good time you might want to browse though their fannish to Japanese phrase book so you know how to ask "Do you have that in a larger size?" Ganbatte kudasai!
The space shuttle Atlantis has made a perfect launch on it’s service mission to install more power capacity on the International Space Station. Good work!
I just thought I’d pass this one on to you. Cooking for people that like to know more about cooking than just add this, bake that. It’s like a web site that 
It looks as if the dream of a solid state laptop is almost here. SanDisk, makers of mighty fine memory products (I use them in my digital camera) have introduced a 64GB solid state flash drive in a 2.5 inch SATA version for portable computers and knowing that the public’s hunger for music players will never be slaked, a 1.8 PATA version for things like, gee, I don’t know, iPods? It’s a short leap to the iPhone from here. 64GB of storage would be just fine for most people on a laptop. Even if it wasn’t the .11 millisecond reaction time and less than a watt power dissipation will make using these an easy move.