Links for 12-09-2006
Post-apocalypse housing, The KLF’s manual, the Long Bets Foundation, quantum dots…
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I’m a sucker for post-apocalypse pads, and this one pushes all the right buttons. Link via BoingBoing.
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“Drivers pass closer when overtaking cyclists wearing helmets than when overtaking bare-headed cyclists, increasing the risk of a collision, the research has found.” That’s my excuse, and I’m sticking to it.
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3 – Gaviotas“If you drive east out of Bogatá, Colombia into the eastern llanos of the Vichada province…you will come across a small village of roughly 200 people.” Worldchanging reports on that rarest of things – a successful social experiment.
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“For the VJ who wants to join clubbers on the dance floor and still keep control over the video, Belmer Negrillo has imagined Go Dance . So far, there’s only a prototype. But the concept is brilliant.” Cool stuff.
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“After their first UK no 1 single Doctorin’ The Tardis [the KLF] wrote the manual, in which they discribed how to write a number one single. The original issue is very hard to find…” Unless you look on the intarwebs, of course.
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“A partial spinoff from the Long Now called the Long Bets Foundation is increasingly active in providing a competitive arena for predictions about the future.”
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“Say hello to the Amazon Kindle, their take on a book reader device…” Looks like a bit of a scoop at Engadget.
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“Once fully developed, the biodegradable absorbent wipe would contain nanofibers containing antibodies to numerous biohazards and chemicals and would signal by changing color or through another effect when the antibodies attached to their targets.”
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“Quantum dots – brightly reflective nano-crystals – could allow biologists to watch biological activities that cannot normally be resolved under a microscope…”
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