Links for 11-10-2006
Peter Hamilton blogs, brand engagement is a myth, calling the aliens from Mexican pyramids…
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“Welcome to what I hope will be a monthly news update which I envisage as a kind of combined blog and report on work in progress.” No RSS yet, though. Curses, I hate click-through…
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” [Yet] More reader responses to Cory Doctorow’s essay ‘How Copyright Broke’…” And I thought hornet’s nests went into hibernation in the autumn…
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“Unlike record companies, which faced the double whammy of the iPod and illegal file sharing, the online market has given book publishers some breathing room.” Hmmm. Via Grumpy Old Bookman.
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4 – Media Convert“free and online – convert and split sound, ringtones, images, docs – MP3 WMV 3GP AMR FLV SWF AMV MOV WMA AVI MPG MP4 DivX MPEG4 etc” Handy web service for changing files between formats.
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“The truth about engagement is that no one can define it because it’s a myth. It’s sort of like a magical marketing unicorn or Bigfoot. Sure, there are a few fuzzy pictures of it on the internet, but no one has classified the species.”
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“It exists to serve a need in the market for consumers who want TV content on demand. Pirates compete the same way we do – through quality, price and availability. We don’t like the model but we realise it’s competitive enough to make it a major competito
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“Mexico’s Teotihuacan, once the center of a sprawling pre-Hispanic empire, is set to become the launch pad for an attempt to communicate with extraterrestrial life.” All Yahoo’s idea, apparently.
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“HOW TO: Make a capacitor bank useful for many applications, ie a railgun, coilgun, RFID zapper…”
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“Work avoidance is one of the major paradoxes of the writing profession. Generally, writers want to write (or want to have written), but all too often we find ourselves doing anything else but.” A serendipitous find, vis Lifehacker.
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“Even the dreariest hack has to be on nodding terms with human psychology in order to pump out a half-decent airport novel. Few novelists, though, worship at psychology’s altar with the vehemence of J. G. Ballard.”
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reBang on ‘GooTube’: ” … the anti-corporate “free everything” crowd is going to volutarily go to work for the very corporations they claim to despise. Many of them, because they’re not especially savvy, are going to get used.”
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“The boy, a 14-year-old who suffers from epilepsy, is the first teenager to play a two-dimensional video game, Space Invaders, using only the signals from his brain to make movements.” Whoa. Progress.
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“As we approach a billionth of a cent per byte of storage, and pennies per gigabit per second of bandwidth, what kind of machine labors to be born?” Nice long Wired article on the new Google campus and our digital futures.
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“This would be my first attempt at an ISS lunar transit after the deployment of the new solar arrays. The ISS was going to be at a range of only 260 miles.” Right close to the Tycho crater, too. Good picture.
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” … [sustainably] designed as a stand-alone accommodation or temporary office and can also be interlink to create unique temporary or permanent living and working environments.” Innovation or ecodesign hype?
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“An international team of researchers has accomplished just that in animals, using a solution of protein molecules that self-organise on the nanoscale into a biodegradable gel that stops bleeding.” Could be a literal lifesaver if it works out.
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“Could a cobweb bandage help soldiers and accident victims with bleeding wounds? Is a wrapping of spider silk the key to preventing the body from rejecting implants?”
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