Links for 09-02-2008
Jim Kelly talks Creative Commons; Planet Stories rides again; why Iain Banks writes; power-generator knee-brace …
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1 – WirelessKeyView: Recover lost WEP/WPA key
“WirelessKeyView recovers all wireless network keys (WEP/WPA) stored in your computer by the ‘Wireless Zero Configuration’ service of Windows XP and by the ‘WLAN AutoConfig’ service of Windows Vista.” So you know.
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2 – James Patrick Kelly – Creative Commons interview
“I went to Clarion [...] with Bruce Sterling back when we were both knee high to an adverb [...] when he started giving his book, THE HACKER CRACKDOWN, away in the mid ’90’s, I was paying close attention.”
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3 – “Planet Stories” Revives the Best of Pulp Fiction
“Where do old novels go when they’re out of print? Mostly they moulder in used book stores or get boxed away in basements, but sometimes, on the rarest of occasions, they see new life.” Yet the new stuff doesn’t sell. Go figure.
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4 – Dunbar’s number – Wikipedia
“… a theorized cognitive limit to the number of individuals with whom any one person can maintain stable social relationships, the kind of relationships that go with knowing who each person is and how each person relates socially to every other person.”
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5 – WinFF – audio file format batch converter
“WinFF converts multiple files in a batch, with support for multiple formats output in the same batch. For example, you can convert FLV, WMV, AVI and WAV simultaneously.”
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6 – Biofuel farms make CO2 emissions worse
“Scientists have found that converting rainforests, peatlands and grasslands can outweigh the carbon savings made from biofuels and produce “carbon debts” which could take centuries to pay off.” The subsidies will be awesome, though.
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7 – Knee device makes phone charging a walk in the park
“The new device harnesses the energy of a person’s leg as it swings forward during a step. [...] That spins gears inside the device, which drive an electric generator.” Want one. No, NEED one.
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“I didn’t know any writers and wasn’t aware of there being any books that told you how to write. Even if I had been, I was probably too convinced of my own genius to read them! I could have done with some advice though.”
