What’s wrong with this decade? Why can’t we have more bam-boom Vvvvvzzzzzz fsioufff-fsioufff zzzaaaaap sci-fi series? I mean, real sci-fi series with spaceships, fighters and major battles as opposed to mystery-style sci-fi like “X-Files” or “Heroes” or even “Lost”.

In the ’90s, we had Babylon 5, DS9, Voyager, Space: Above and Beyond, SG1 and 1-2 more than I can’t remember their titles right now. This decade instead, we only had Battlestar Galactica, ST:Enterprise, Firefly and SG Atlantis (with the last two being less of action and more of blah-blah).

Why isn’t Hollywood producing more space-based sci-fi TV series? And don’t get me started about movies! The last such movies were what? Star Wars and Serenity, 2 whole years ago? I need at least 1-2 such movies each year so I can get my fix!

It is pathetic when reading some comments where people are accusing LG of copying Apple for their KE850 Prada feature phone. They didn’t. Neither Apple copied the idea from LG. It is where the general direction of feature phones is going: large touchscreens.

There is a much bigger need these days for good mobile web-browsing and good video support that it forces the usage of large widescreens. And because large widescreens take lots of space, the hardware buttons must be removed in order to keep the device truly mobile. And because most keys are gone, the screen must become a touchscreen. Logical consequence, no?

In the future, most phones will use such large wide touchscreens. What we see today with Microsoft, LG and Apple is simply the early adoption of this kind of usage. Sony Ericsson bought UIQ so they can truly control it and get into that bandwagon too, while Nokia is rumored to be adding touchscreen support for the next major version of their S60 platform (their S80/S90 platforms are dead). Motorola has only recently started working with their LiMO partners for the new Linux-based phones, and they will possibly be late in the game. Motorola already has a Linux-based touchscreen platform called EZX, but they don’t want to continue using it, I believe because of Trolltech’s QT being dual licensed as GPL-commercial instead of LGPL. Samsung already has a Linux-based touchscreen-based platform too, partnering with the MiZi Corporation. Access still works for their next gen Linux-based OS too, while an HTC-generated rumor wants Microsoft adding 800×480 resolution support on their Windows Mobile 6.

Initially, these phones will only be high-end and expensive, but each year their numbers will multiply compared to the traditionally-looking phones. As for tactile support, Samsung has already patented the idea of using the device’s vibration mechanism to provide such feedback.

The only users who will be screwed from this new trend will be the blind people. I guess, specialized devices will be created for them, as they are today for other things. It will be just one more thing to pay a crazy price for (because they will sell fewer of them).

There is something even worse than crimes against humanity: crimes against the whole planet. And that’s what the Bush administration and their powerful friends (not just the oil companies) are guilty of. I was reading a few months ago about a NASA scientist who was asked to lie (or at least conseal) about global warming and now the same usual suspects are offering money to other scientists to shut up about what lies ahead for the planet.

America’s biggest modern crime is not Iraq or the prison in Cuba. It’s their insistence — via their president and their powerful corporations that drive this country– on turning their backs on a major threat that will have grave implications in the future generations. Talk about short-sighting… I just hope that the next US president will have the balls to go against the hand that fed his/her campaign and acknowledge the problem, short of working on a solution along with UN.