Venusian Transit Footage

My thanks to coffeeem for pointing this out on YouTube: NASA footage of the 2012 transit of Venus in several wavelengths.

Enjoy.

Cutting off the homegrown authors and publishers?

robmclennan pointed out this press release from the Literary Press Group of Canada(LPG). I can't recall having picked up much of their associated publishers' product lines over the years, but must admit to being more than a little concerned over the consequences for independently-owned, homegrown publishing of any sort. It's difficult enough to build up a local indy publisher without either falling prey to bankruptcy or foreign takeover as it is around here, and this could make the situation a lot worse.