Fresh from teh intarwebs…

• 1 – Bruce Sterling video!
  Captain Bruce talks about how he got sucked into the new green movements; six minute WMV stream-file.
  (tags: futurism interview activism green video Sterling Bruce)
• 2 – The Nine Defining Characteristics of the Christian Conservative
  PZ ‘Pharangula’ Myers dissects a classic example of US right-wing Christian ideological pseudobabble, and with style. Bring the snark, PZ!
  (tags: humour dissection snark idiocy wing right US conservative Christian)
• 3 – Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
  David louis Edelman has just discovered Mervyn Peake. He’s rather pleased with the discovery – as well he should be!
  (tags: classic writing literature fantasy British Gormenghast Peake Mervyn Groan Titus)
• 4 – RIZE 5MG
  Another little vignette from William Gibson. I still have no idea if these are one-shot pieces, parts of a lrger work or what. But they are definitely damn fine writing. RSS this blog, if you haven’t already.
  (tags: vignette story literature cyberpunk SF scifi fiction science writing Gibson William)
• 5 – Real DJs Code Live
  Livecoding is the latest musical revolution; forget instruments or turntables, these guys make music just by typing program scripts.
  (tags: technology creativity experimental DJ audio geek coding programming music)
• 6 – Angel Kitty USB keyboard
  It’s a keyboard, built into a corset/bustier French-Maid type outfit for the geek-loving lady in your life. I SO want one! Vaguely NSFW, if your boss is a prude or you work for a dumb corporation. Link via TechEBlog.
  (tags: USB corset maid french fashion culture keyboard peripheral computer)
• 7 – Stroke turns Geordie Jamaican
  This is either a sad and bizarre tale of brain dysfunction, or evidence that the Guardian has gone tabloid, just with bigger words.
  (tags: medicine syndrome accent foreign damage brain stroke)
• 8 – ‘Extreme Lian Li’ by Ediejo
  This really is the case-mod to trample and bury all other case-mods. Absolutely awesome. I want one! Link via GizmodoUK.
  (tags: bling cooling performance Li Lian Extreme hardware geek computer modding mod case PC)
• 9 – Declaration of Singularity Revisited
  The Speculist crew request your allegience to the civilisation of the future! I have signed up, naturally.
  (tags: transhumanism independence remix humour declaration futurism singularity)
• 10 – Falling onto the dark
  Huge and distant anomolous cosmological ‘blob’ could be a galaxy being born.
  (tags: matter dark formation galaxy analysis spectra anomoly blob cosmology space)
• 11 – ‘Plasma needle’ could replace the dentist’s drill
  Anything replacing the dental drill has got to be an improvement…unless it’s a hammer and chisel, natch.
  (tags: technology surgery health oral needle plasma drill dentistry orthodontics medicine)
• 12 – Precisely mapping and stimulating the brain
  New device can stimulate and map the human brain in realtime – a big step forward for neuroscience, and for singularitarians too.
  (tags: mapping tool diagnosis Nexstim Stimulation Navigated scanning brain MRI neuroscience medicine)
• 13 – Geodesic domes: ‘Doing more with less’
  Fuller-domes get a dusting-off, and are starting to appear at festivals and corporate events. Some ideas are just to good to die off easily.
  (tags: futurism geometry construction engineering structure Fuller Buckminster domes geodesic)
• 14 – ‘Bionic’ limb breakthrough made
  Good news for amputees, and anyone who fancies upgrading from ‘human standard’ in the future.
  (tags: futurism transhumanism surgery medicine replacement amputation limb prosthetic bionic)
• 15 – Matrioshka Brain Home Page
  What’s a Matrioshka Brain? It’s like a Dyson Sphere, just less anthropocentric; an idea that has been mined by a fair few SF authors, and will no doubt obsess me for weeks to follow. w00t!
  (tags: Bradbury Robert space futurism sphere Dyson computronium nanotechnology brain matrioshka transhumanism)

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