Links for 13-06-2007
Urban surveillance and social contracts, sub-crust oceans of Titan (no sirens seen so far), self-healing polymer, yet more music hackery…
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1 – Snitchtown – Doctorow on urban surveillance
“…the truth is that ubiquitous cameras only serve to violate the social contract that makes cities work.”
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2 – New implant may ‘bring music to the deaf’
“Conventional implants only allow detection of tones as low as around 7 kHz, but the new implant allowed frequencies as low as 0.6kHz to be detected.”
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3 – Pondering an Ocean Beneath Titan
“The apparent detection of low frequency radio waves makes liquid water beneath the surface of the huge Saturnian moon a possibility, according to research led by Fernando Simoes…”
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“Unlike previous self-healing systems that relied on capsules of agent buried in the polymer and which became depleted after one use, the new system can respond to damage at the same point many times over.”
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5 – Live review: Fu Manchu / Valient Thorr – Southampton Nexus 3/6/2007
Live music review
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6 – Fu Manchu – interview with Bob Balch
Interview with Bob Balch, guitarist for Fu Manchu
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7 – Jetplane Landing – Backlash Cop
Album review (an album which you should buy immediately, in fact)
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8 – Black Strobe – Burn Your Own Church
Album review
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9 – Ten Foot Nun – Nightmare At The Shoe Museum
Album review
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10 – Ion Dissonance – Minus the Herd
Album review
