Links for 01-02-2007
Marvin Minsky interview, rogue open source Second Life server, Francis Crick was an acid-head, NYRSF indexed online…
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1 – The Discover Interview: Marvin Minsky
“The legendary pioneer of artificial intelligence ponders the brain, bashes neuroscience, and lays out a plan for superhuman robot servants.” Via Plausible Futures.
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2 – Rogue Second Life Server Goes Open Source
“…it is a step toward a virtual world, solar system, galaxy or universe free from centralized corporate control, one that looks more like the World Wide Web of individually controlled sites…”
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3 – Separating SF and Fantasy in bookstores
“Actually, it’s not nuts at all — nuts was when Ottawa’s House of Speculative Fiction separated the male and female authors into two sections…” Rob Sawyer speaks.
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4 – How Listeners Perceive Verbs
“The verb forms the heart of a sentence. Although a lot of research has been done into the role that verbs play during the transfer of information, less is known about exactly how and when the listener or reader uses this information.”
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5 – Nobel Prize genius Crick was high on LSD
“FRANCIS CRICK, the Nobel Prize-winning father of modern genetics, was under the influence of LSD when he first deduced the double-helix structure of DNA nearly 50 years ago.” Never knew that before.
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“A Canticle for Lebowski — Jeff Bridges as an immortal Dude wanders post-apocalyptic America searching for an intact bowling alley. Your suggestion?” Jay Lake with an sf variation of the classic music-fan game.
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7 – Kathryn Cramer: I’ve just created an NYRSF Index page
“What we have indexed is about 4.3 million words of science fiction criticism and reviews not on the web.” Excellent – my longings have been answered!
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8 – 10 Shopping Tricks That Stores Hate
“We’ve put together 10 tips that will help you save money, but probably won’t help the store. That’s why they hate them. And you.” Thank you, Mr. Scalzi.
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9 – The Ten Most Expensive Science Fiction and Fantasy Books Sold in 2006
“AbeBooks’ booksellers offer an amazing selection of science fiction and fantasy books, at prices from $1 all the way to, well, out of this world. Here are the top prices paid for SF & F books in 2006.” Via SF Signal.
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10 – Low Budget Science Fiction Props
“In my opinion, this plant looks and acts like a low budget science fiction movie or play prop. And so do many other things. Consider…”
