Links for 11-03-2007
Andy Wheeler takes Itzkoff to task (again), nerves run on sound - not electric, clockpunk - a new genre is discovered…
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1 - Itzkoff Fancies Himself a Reporter
Andrew Wheeler continues his (largely unopposed) crusade to point out the idiocy and unqualified ramblings of David Itzkoff.
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2 - Second Life Sketches: A Virtual Miscellany
“Why is the Cyberman staring at me?” Warren Ellis’s metaversal fear and loathing continues…
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3 - It’s Still A Bad Idea To Commit Libel On Your Blog
“It’s taken some time, but courts seem to be coming around to the idea that there’s no reason to think of bloggers as being distinct from journalists in terms of what rights they have.” Victory for common sense?
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4 - Scientists say nerves use sound, not electricity
“The common view that nerves transmit impulses through electricity is wrong and they really transmit sound, according to a team of Danish scientists…” Via Slashdot.
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“Clockpunk is a genre of science fiction similar to Steampunk (some people even consider clockpunk to be a sub-genre of Steampunk).” Cory Doctorow unearths a nascent subgenre - cue publisher goldrush?
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6 - ‘Terms of Service’ Accepted by Darker Matter
Stoddard makes a sale.
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7 - PlayStation Home: William Gibson’s Vision Realized
Pointed out by Captain Gibson himself, this article doesn’t quite get the point - though the development is still interesting, IMHO. Virtual worlds are going to get real ubiquitous, real fast.
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8 - Adam Roberts on Jameson’s ‘Archaeologies of the Future’
“Jameson’s been interested in science fiction for most of his career, but never before has he published so large a work devoted wholly to the genre—or, more specifically, devoted to utopia, here taken straightforward as a subset of SF.”
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