Links for 06-09-2006
Rudy Rucker brainstorms, splogging, dead Jesus imitator, killer military frisbees…
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Rudy Rucker brainstorming in public – how have I managed to avoid reading the guy’s novels for so long? A situation that must be amended!
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David Louis Edelman smells a crack in the bubble.
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“Just as the proliferation of email spam constantly threatens to inundate email providers, the explosion of blog spam is a besetting problem for the blog industry.” Wired reports.
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“The latest piece of kit to be tested out during roadworks is a radar-assisted speeding sign that not only flashes when it detects a speeding car, but also displays the license plate number of said car. Yeah, scary.”
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You think you get some weird stuff in your inbox? Bruce Sterling can top it.
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“Comedian-turned-painter Jimmy Onishi and 40 elementary school students have designed monster-sized psychedelic murals for the ship’s spherical tanks…large enough to cover 100 buses.” Blimey.
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Does what it says on the tin.
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“Despite recent indications that Antarctica cooled considerably during the 1990s, new research suggests that the world’s iciest continent has been getting gradually warmer for the last 150 years…”
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9 – MIRACLE IS SUNK“A priest has died after trying to demonstrate how Jesus walked on water.” Darwin was right! Link via Warren Ellis.
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“The evidence suggests that there are gender, age and socio-economic class differences in what is deemed desirable and that many prospective parents would be prepared to manipulate their babies in ways that are at odds with moral orthodoxy.” Interesting.
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“As NASA’s space shuttle fleet sputters toward a planned 2010 retirement, the next generation of U.S. space planes is gestating in the heart of the U.S. military.” All sounds a bit hush-hush, but that’s no big surprise.
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“Molecules capable of basic logic operations have been developed that could serve as tiny ID tags for identifying individual cells or nano-devices.” There’ll be no digging these little sods out of your flesh, that’s for sure…
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Recent research has revealed that a standard cell-viability test may be causing carbon-nanotubes to “fake” toxicity.” It’s not just about the question, it’s about how you ask it.
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14 – Military Frisbees?“Not just any frisbees, mind you. Robotic frisbees. Heavily armed robotic frisbees.” The strange yet true world of military tech development.
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