Links for 03-10-2006
Cthulhu phone-in podcast, steampunk drawings and realities, space mission funding…
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“Twenty of the coolest recent technological developments, listed here at Our Technological Future for your leisure.” Yeah, what he said. Go lookee.
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Pencil-drawn anime girls trying to assemble a 1337 gaming computer in their underwear – today’s Megatokyo has everything an online geek comic could possibly need to provide.
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The mightiest and most evil of the old gods now has his own call-in podcast show! Listen in now, lest you pay your soul as price…
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“This page is to only to inform artists who want to draw steampunk machines, but doesn’t quite fully understand how steam works.” Mechanical pencils at the ready for creating your own steampunk vehicles …
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5 – Steam bicycles…and here are some examples of the (sur)real thing!
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“The fantastic, baroque imagination of Mervyn Peake expressed itself in prose and painting, in poetry and illustration. Michael Moorcock introduces a new book and exhibition of his work.” Link via Cheryl Morgan.
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” … definitions for some of the early 1990s acronyms associated with the Internet and networked communications. It is not complete, but it represents the most-used acronyms of that period.” Thankyou, Bruce Sterling.
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“The matchbox-sized motor generates the equivalent of 100 watts, including the power electronics interface, and has an efficiency of close to 95 percent.” Blimey.
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“Tesco is aiming to substantially undercut Microsoft, offering software titles for less than £20. It claims to be the first retailer to offer a range of own-label software …”
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” … it has beamed back images taken from less than 300 kilometres above the planet’s surface. The new images were taken on 29 September and show parts of Mars in unprecedented detail.”
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“Magnificent stone sculptures of Classic Maya culture (AD 250-900) have long fascinated archaeologists and the general public alike. But what did the scenes depicted in these monuments mean in their society?”
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12 – How Far a Frontier?“When is a space mission too expensive to fly?” Seems there’s no shortage of money, just other things to spend it on – no change there, then, but maybe we’ll see a shift in the future.
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” … a relatively small 6.5-foot, 60-pound turbine … designed to mount on the top edge of a building, taking advantage of the unique aerodynamics of tall buildings, catching the wind after it’s been funneled up the facade.”
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14 – Seeing Action“EYCIN consists of a monitor linked to a camera that tracks the eye … an on-screen pointer follows eye movements and when the user glances at a designated area for half a second, EYCIN interprets this as a mouse click.”
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” … a prototype in which humans can use their feet in order to mimic cursor movements more traditionally handled by the keyboard’s right-hand man.” Good call.
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“Second Life residents will be able to Stand Up and be counted as supporter of the Millennium Development Goals and help abolish extreme poverty around the world.” OK … just no virtual Bono, please?
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