Wired gives a gallery of retro-sexy space station designs that never happened. This is a good a reason as any to revisit Tales of Future Past's gallery of stations, the Space Settlement Art Gallery, and SpaceRef's overview of classic designs.

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A study says that, mathematically, the Galaxy should be colonized by now. Centauri Dreams considers rethinking SETI's targets. The Space Review looks at caution and optimism about human space flight. At Discovery you can learn how super-civilzations could live off the power of black holes.

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In the latest SF Signal Podcast the irregulars discuss our favorite S&SF movies and television from 2011.

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Will the future see a world without war? A world without honesty? Will popular culture survive? Will exercise be replaced with a pill? Will our appliances do our thinking for us?

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Tor.com kicks off David Bowie Week with a look at his humor.

Meanwhile Pentagon scientists use a "time hole" to make events disappear, and the 100 Year Starship project now has a captain.

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Robots will soon walk on sand. Guy brushes cat via robot. 10 sex robots who kill. Robo writers. Robot flirtation commences. Japan is working on a 13-foot tall walking robot. Here's a robot that harvests hair follicles.

And The Website @ The End of The Universe's free downloadable 2012 calendar is available.

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The God of the Month is Morpheus, God of Dreams.

The Molecule of the Month is Dimethylsulfoxide.

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Christmas is done. I made out pretty well, scoring the new Chris Foss art book, Lightspeed: Year One, a Tardis USB hub, and an excellent set of Seven Deadly Sins scotch glasses.

To be honest I went into this Holiday season just wanting to get it over. The endurance test that was 2011 left me exhausted, and the rush to finish and distribute this year's card sapped what I thought was the balance of my enthusiasm. But a couple days of seeing friends and good food and drink did me good.

Not sure what the posting schedule will be this week. There's a lot to wrap up by year's end.

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It is Christmas Week, my friends, and that means it's time for another holiday tale. This one is a 5500 word beast about power outages, podcasting, and time travel called Candle Gardens.

It is dedicated to two friends of mine who died this year, but it goes out to anyone who found themselves in the path of nature, misfortune, or any other force outside their control.

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In the past week the largest simulation of the universe was announced, a trillion frame-per-second camera was unveiled, and we learned that superflies were being bred to survive Jupiter's moon Titan. Oh, and Fast Company now has a weekly robotics update. 

For eye-candy, here's Dark Roasted Blend's gallery of other countries' space programs.

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