Links for 06-08-2006
The 28 hour day, OS advertising, DRM for text, personal blimps…
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1 – The 28 Hour DayThese people are either total geniuses (genii?), or utter lunatics. I wish I had the flex in my lifestyle to try it out.
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An interesting new potential business model – it could solve M’soft’s piracy worries, if nothing else. But how long before there were hacks to avoid the ads?
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Chris ‘Long Tail’ Anderson provides a little anecdote that explains the Long Tail concept perfectly.
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Oh, great. That’s just what we need, more stupid rights management code when people are already complaining about interoperability.
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Lois Tilton completes her tirade on the problems of genre labelling and the decline of quality therein. Basically, publishers put out crap in genres because that’s what sells.
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John Scalzi responds to Stross’s broadside at the state of genre fiction.
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Neil Williamson speaks in praise of Interzone, the first publication to put my name in print (if only as a reviewer). Link via Adventures in the SF Trade.
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Omigod, yes! I want one! Link via MAKEblog.
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Does what it says on the tin.
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Only copies of Greek philosopher’s lost works, once scrubbed away and written over with prayers, are now being recovered with X-ray scanning. There’s some nice symbolism there…
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A computer with no mouse and no keyboard – all control is achieved by tracking the user’s gaze as they look at the screen. I can see this idea going way beyond the disabilities market, if it works fast enough.
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Regular readers are probably aware that I’m not a big fan of nuclear power. If we absolutely must build more reactors (and I’m not so sure we should), using this stuff as fuel sounds like a much better idea.
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Well, if you thought you’d worked out how to create a new separate universe, you’d just have to give it a try, wouldn’t you?
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This is three years old, but new to me and possibly new tyo you too; it does what it says on the tin. Hours of fun; cheers to Circuitbenders for the tipoff.
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15 – CropcirclesGallery of desktop-sized cropcircle pictures. Take them as you like. Link via Metafilter.
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