Links for 04-11-2006
India contemplates Moon missions, outsourcing in Second Life, widgets and web3.0, skeleton chopper motorbike…
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“For me, this all boils down to a crisis of transparency. The disaster that we will face in a few days isn’t that the machines will be hacked, it’s that we won’t know whether they have, and we will have no real way of checking.”
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“The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) says it could have a manned spaceship ready in eight years to orbit the Earth and put Indian astronauts on the lunar surface in 14 years.”
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“Describing himself as “born-again” and “evangelical” on the subject, he urged more young people to become scientists for their and the country’s future prosperity.” Because the kids look up to Blair, don’t they?
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“The man behind the avatar known as “taelin Ng” begins his mornings in District 8 of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in the small apartment he shares with his mother.” Fascinating insight to metaverse economics and employment ops.
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“A Spanish judge has dealt a blow to the global music industry after ruling that there is nothing illegal about downloading music for free from the internet as long as it is for personal use.” Fireworks a few days early this year, I think.
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“The internet will hold so much digital data in five years that it will be possible to find out what an individual was doing at a specific time and place, an expert said yesterday.” Hype or realism?
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“…it’s now possible to add so many collapsible modules to your tabs/pages, that you rarely need to go anywhere else [...] The future of the web (dare I say Web 3.0?) will look just like a Swiss Army Knife and it’s going to be extremely disruptive.”
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“…scientists at the University of Rochester Medical Center have discovered that some people carry special enzymes that “edit” the AIDS virus and prevent it from progressing.” J. D. Shapely lives…
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“John Farr drove over [...] so that I could photograph his titanium skeleton bike … The skeleton, which creates the frame of this ground-up custom bike, was investment cast of Grade 2 Titanium and, trust me, everyone who saw it loved it.”
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“A possible next step in personal computer technology, this is an experimental product called the P-ISM, described by NEC designers as a ‘Pen-style Personal Networking Gadget Package.’” I want one!
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“We over-react to things that offend our morals – When people feel insulted or disgusted, they generally do something about it, such as whacking each other over the head, or voting. Moral emotions are the brain’s call to action.”
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“The Solar Optical Telescope (SOT) onboard Japan’s Hinode spacecraft has opened its doors and started snapping pictures.”
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“Consider this: [...] a resource already exists that may not only sound the death knell of archaeology, but also the opportunity to enable a greater depth and sophistication of anthropology than has ever existed before.”
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“If you are writing anything at all, odds are you’ll improve your skills by spending some time at the Poynter Institute. So without delay, here is a list of a whopping 50 articles that we should all read…”
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November 4th, 2006 at 2:41 pm
Excellent set of links. I liked the comment on the Outsourcing The Metaverse post where someone griped that Second Life was a nation and that it shouldn’t outsource work to other nations. Apparently whatever real world nation(s) comprise Second Life don’t include the Developing world.
November 6th, 2006 at 9:43 am
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