Blade Runner director Ridley Scott announced his commercials company, RSA Films, has launched a new division to make Purefold, a webseries set in the Blade Runner universe. And this time around, you'll get to help decide who is and isn't a replicant.

Today a group of researchers announced they would be releasing several people's genome sequences online. Anyone can download or repurpose the data, which will be shared on BitTorrent and other file-sharing networks.

Firefly fans and the Browncoats at Whedonesque are rejoicing this week because they have a free ebook set in the Firefly universe from author Steven Brust. Yes, My Own Kind of Freedom is today's lunchtime reading (and, depending on how quickly you read, possibly tomorrow's and the next day's too).