Links for 09-08-2006
The Miss Rockaway Armada, the Long Tail of search, XP tune-ups, reduced Star Wars…
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Bruce Sterling on nets and jets, and their potential for disruption weighed against their force for change.
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Lou Anders just won’t let it lie…and good on him, too. Don’t agree with it all, but the man talks sense.
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Scalzi laments the prejudgement of an artist’s work by their politics. Good thinking. Though I still feel Heinlein was a w*nker, despite his skill with the written word.
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“And what, you ask, is the Miss Rockaway Armada? A group of 25 performers, artists and change-makers…currently congregating in Minneapolis to construct a flotilla of rafts and sail down the Mississippi…” Sounds interesting. And itching to be put into
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If there aren’t enough young people to look after the elderly, who the hell is going to build these robots, exactly?
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Good news – it’s the Long Tail of search! If you build it, they will come…
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Yet another ‘out of sight, out of mind’ answer to greenhouse gases – let’s hide them under the floor of the ocean! Idiots.
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America wants its supercomputer speed record back the Energy Department is teaming up with Cray to break the petaflop barrier.
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What’s better than flying robots? Swarms of flying robots, that’s what.
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The second Bigelow module heads for orbit early next year.
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XP PC tweakage. Something for everyone in here – apart from smug-arsed Mac users, of course. Link via Lifehacker.
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12 – 10 Mile SpiralFile under ‘bizarre architectural concepts’; a ten-mile long freeway spiral outside Las Vegas, which is basically a drive-thru version of the city, complete with casinos, hotels and all the rest. Mad as a bag of spanners. Go lookee.
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Bruce Sterling has more on the potential ethanol-fuel economy in the US.
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Jamais Cascio podcasts the Futurismic column as an experiment.
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The UK’s ‘Reduced Shakespeare Company’, famous for their hilarious but spot-on condensed versions of the works of the Bard, are given permission to work their magic on the entire Star Wars catalogue. I must book tickets immediately!
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