SAMIZDATA HAS MOVED and has a new site designed by the lovely and talented Stacy Tabb of Sekimori. Visit it, admire it, and set your bookmark accordingly.

There’s also a very interesting item there on the debate over cryonics and life extension between Kevin Holtsberry and Dale Amon. Sample quote from Dale:

Kevin Holtsberry tells Dale Amon to drop dead

Well, not really. But he does think life extension is inherently weird. But then I consider a preference for rotting as rather a run for the porcelain goddess philosophy…

I’m inclined to agree with Dale. But, as Dale notes, this is a situation where reasonable people can agree to disagree — no one is harmed by someone else deciding to be frozen. And, I should point out, even many eminently respectable futurists think cryonics isn’t for them: Robert Heinlein refused to be frozen, saying, with apparent seriousness, that it might interfere with reincarnation.