Links for 07-10-2006
Terry Gilliam goes on the blag, DIY drumkit (electronic version), LSD for drunks, space elevator fiction…
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“We’re blowing dog-whistles in a city full of cats.” Captain Bruce collects the weirdness of business types from the world of print and package.
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“So, Terry Gilliam showed up in front of the Daily Show with a giant sign that said “Will direct films for food.” He had a plastic cup that people in the Daily Show ticket line filled to the brim with dollar bills.” Via Chris Roberson.
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“The concept sports 4096 colors, 32MB of built-in memory and a miniSD slot, but weighs a mere 6.2 ounces … it’s pretty dang thin — hardly thicker than a mini USB port…” Now that looks a bit more like it.
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“So last year I needed to keep things quiet for my housemates, and as a drummer that took a bit of restraint. I surfed around on the internet … and what do you know, a month later, I had a full electronic set!”
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“From Nuclear Space, a site dedicated to promoting the use of nuclear power in space – pictures that imagine what it would have looked like to have Project Orion nuclear pulse propulsion ships.”
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” … red dwarfs are very much on the table for future terrestrial planet finder missions as well as SETI searches.”
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“Astronomers have looked under the hoods of quasars, the brightest objects in the universe, and found some of the best evidence yet for the black holes that are thought to power them.”
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“After perceiving similarities in the experiences of people on LSD and people going through delirium tremens … they felt LSD may be able to trigger such a turnaround without engendering the painful physical effects associated with DTs.”
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“The heat from Saturn’s interior backlights clouds deep within its atmosphere, a new image from the Cassini spacecraft reveals.” Space is pretty!
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10 – Tag This Rerun“Let’s not tag DRM so quickly. It’s a system. It’s neutral. It’s all of us – corporations and consumers – who will determine through our behavior the form it eventually takes.” More sane thinking from reBang.
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“The brain as a whole operates more like a social network than a digital computer … However, the computer-like features of the prefrontal cortex broaden the social networks, helping the brain become more flexible in processing novel and symbolic informa
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“Publishers are starting to report an uptick in sales from Google Inc.’s online program that lets readers peek inside books, two years after the launch of its controversial plan to digitally scan everything in print.” Toldyaso.
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“Running the Line is a new book edited by Brad Edwards and David Raitt. The book is a result of the second Clarke-Bradbury International Science Fiction Competition … with the theme of Space Elevators.”
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