Links for 02-11-2006
Allen Array strapped for cash, OPEC thinks Stern report spurious, Sterling brainstorms spimes, OpenCourseWare, the First Second Life Church of Elvis…
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“Construction of the Allen Telescope Array, named after its chief benefactor, Microsoft co-founder and billionaire Paul Allen, will halt at the end of this year unless further funding is found.”
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“…the problem of online identity theft is vastly hyped when compared with its more prevalent off-line equivalent, according to one analyst group.” Interesting - hyped by whom, do you think?
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“A hard-hitting report on climate change published by the British government on Monday has no basis in science or economics, OPEC’s Secretary-General Mohammed Barkindo said on Tuesday.” Well there’s a surprise.
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“The Australian government has determined that income earned in virtual economies like Second Life and World of Warcraft should be taxed…”
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ZOMFG - a complete photoset of Bruce Sterling brainstorming for diagrams on his ’spimes’ concept.
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“And so it is with the same spirit of pilfering someone else’s good idea that I present the latest gimmicky idea to promote my novel Infoquake.” David Edelman leveraging the internet as only he knows how…
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7 - Confusion to all“I was never intending to go to the 2007 Eastercon. I have said more than once that I do not intend to go near the Adelphi Hotel again in my life. So I am completely unaffected by news that the convention will not now happen.”
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“I have combined an e-mail client (which also does RSS feeds), a portable SMTP server, and a small launcher application together with a customized autorun.inf file to create a complete portable mail system!”
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“Titan’s atmosphere is considered ideal for gaining a better understanding of the early days of Earth’s atmosphere because it and proto-Earth are believed to have emerged with similar atmospheres from the solar nebula…”
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“RSS is so disruptive that it is forcing the mainstream media to adopt the personalized dashboard as a model for the future. After all, if you can take a news feed from ESPN and stick it on your personalized Google page, you’re far less likely to browse E
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“And there it is: the cover for the new book … The cover art is by Lee Gibbons, who also did a lot of covers for Ken MacLeod, amongst many others.” That’s a damn fine bit of cover art, IMHO.
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“The mission of the … Consortium is to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware. “OpenCourseWare” is the free and open digital publication of high quality educational materials, organized as courses.”
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“What do you get when you mix a penguin with the power cosmic? Did any spheniscidae survive the destruction of Krypton? If Batman was a penguin would he still be a *Bat*man and if so what would the Penguin be?” Comic fans, go lookee.
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14 - The New Athiesm“Rather than attacking religion shouldn’t the Evangelists of Reason be focusing their efforts on exposing religious beliefs that are cross-dressing as Science and Reason?” Meme Therapist Jose takes the pulpit.
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“Imagine you meet a friend on the street wearing a C-shirt. Using your cellphone, you take a picture of the Aztec Code on the sleeve. That gives you the URL to the Nota page where that image lives.” This is absolutely awesome - go read.
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“Like any good work of religious architecture, perhaps, the First Second Life Church of Elvis creates a paradoxical container that is at once about being woven together with others in a community yet completely naked before a higher power…”
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“Simply fill out the form below and your name will be included on the Phoenix DVD along with [...] a collection of Mars literature and art, and personal messages to the future by space visionaries of our time such as Carl Sagan, Isaac Asimov…” I’m aboar
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“Physicists [...] at Fermilab near Chicago have discovered two new particles, called sigma-b baryons. The particles are the heaviest baryons ever discovered and weigh about 5.8 GeV, or around six times more than the proton.”
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“They were nearly thrown out with the rubbish. But a last minute search instead has scientists in Western Australia dusting off several boxes of ‘lost’ NASA tapes which record surface conditions on the Moon…”
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“Publishers are wondering whether fan.fic could produce a genuine hit or remain, at best, a marginal interest.” Teh Grauniad on fan fiction.
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