Links for 12-02-2008
Reuters releases open semantic API; tattooing vaccinations; Scalzi talks finance for writers; advances in nanotube fabbing …
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1 – Reuters Wants The World To Be Tagged
“The idea behind Calais is simple – identify interesting bits into metadata in documents. In this implementation the focus is on People, Companies, Places, and Events, but surely the technology can be adopted to other entities.”
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2 – Inside the Multimillion-Dollar Battle to Host the Air Force’s New ‘Cyber Command’
“At a time when Cold War-era commands laden with aging aircraft are shriveling, the nascent Cyber Command is universally seen as a future-proof bet for expansion, in an era etched with portents of cyberwar.”
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3 – Tattoo Method Shows Promise as Vaccine Delivery System
“… administering pieces of DNA [...] by three tattoo-gun injections produced a 200-fold greater production of antibodies to the virus than was achieved with the old method of a needle injection into a muscle.”
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4 – Debatable Space by Philip Palmer, reviewed by Paul Raven
“Palmer has taken modern space opera tropes and welded them to a pulpy adventure narrative wherein the heroes survive against increasingly impossible odds time after time. It’s a bold idea [...] but, for this reader at least, it flops.”
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5 – Unasked-For Advice to New Writers About Money
“… it very often appears to me that regardless of how smart and clever and interesting and fun my fellow writers are on every other imaginable subject, when it comes to money — and specifically their own money — writers have as much sense as chimps
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6 – How long did you want that space elevator cable?
“Actually building components that will allow for the bootstrapping of a desktop sized molecular manufacturing fab seems like it’s a lot closer than it was just a short time ago.”
