Links for 13-10-2006
Annihilation omens, make your own font, W.o.W. jumps the shark, Ben Folds hits Second Life…
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“Homo connectus will relegate the obsolete nation-state and its dysfunctional institutions to artifacts of history, quaint but useless.” Where do I sign?
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“Here’s a step by step approach to creating PDF file from your rich-text email messages or a Word document using Google Docs.” Does what it says on the tin … Adobe will be p*ssed when they hear about this!
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“…hand-draw, correct and create [your] own installable system font for use in digital images and documents in an afternoon with Fontifier.” Sounds like a fun weekend project.
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4 – Digging Words.“It turns out that (just in the books) I write at a rate of about a mile a year. Since the first word of Gridlinked I’ve covered about seven miles.” Neal Asher works out how far round the world he’s written so far…
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“Rather than with saying, after the Mack producing the feeling which was shaken in the girl, appeared in style.” Excellent pictures, complete with delightful ‘translation’ from the original Japanese…
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“It is symbolically fitting that Norfolk – birthplace of Thomas Paine, acclaimed by some as the patron saint of the internet – should be thrust into this pioneering role.”
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” … this week it found itself laid bare as the subject of South Park’s unerring – and unnerving – comic glare.” I predict survival, myself; WoW and Southpark have demographic crossover up the wazoo.
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“Matsushita … announced plans to begin selling an indoor gardening system whose lighting, temperature and water supply can be remotely monitored and controlled via the Internet.” Could revolutionise Friday Plant Blogging!
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“SETI is akin to discovery science, despite its … presumption that the extraterrestrials exist, because that hypothesis is not falsifiable. A failure to receive a [signal] from space doesn’t say a whole lot about whether aliens do, or do not inhabit t
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“And before the future citizen can contribute to the decision-making process, they need to have a good grounding in the fundamentals of science and technology, rather than the sound bite science that state school curriculums are increasingly moving toward
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“The official launch is October 19, with a meet-and-greet and then Q&A with Epic Records artist Ben Folds.” Ben Folds rocks! It’ll be interesting to see how the content industry does in the metaverse, too.
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“My concern is what happens to the world while we’re waiting to upload into our digital utopias. The more realistic and appealing our virtual worlds, the more I fear people will avoid dealing with real problems.”
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“Linden Lab is contemplating a solution that would create a privileged class of users [...] with everyone else limited as to the functions available or the locations in which their scripts and objects will work.” See, I told you – politics and terrorism.
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“Why be content with Second Life when you can join …the Multiverse Network… and access and interact in hundreds of virtual worlds all via one portal?” Why, indeed?
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“Here lies interpretation, misrepresentation and imagination. Here fiction comes under the control of the perceiver, worlds form distinct from their manufacturer: here be the no-man’s land of creativity.” The Huge Entity is back in business!
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” … IBM to supply US forces serving in Iraq with conversational English to Arabic “speech-to-speech” translators, to help combat the shortage of Arabic linguists.” That’ll work fine, until the first gay machine ‘comes out’…
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” [It] will be sold with a wireless ID card that fits inside a wallet or handbag and lets the phone detect when its owner moves more than a few metres away.” Genius – that’ll be real hard to lose or have stolen, won’t it? Idiots.
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“No longer will you have to doubt the integrity of your “close friends” … as the persuasive mirror apparently feels that honesty is the best policy, even if it rattles your self-esteem.” Would anyone really buy this? Actually, don’t answer that.
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“The reason history is littered with suspiciously regular extinctions is all down to the Earth’s wobbly orbit, according to research published today.” Well, not entirely, but it looks like it could be a major factor.
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” … [they] … believe the parasite may interfere with the immune systems of pregnant women and make it more likely for male embryos to survive.” Doom! Doom! Toxoplasma will take over the world!
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“Here are some rules for good writing style when you’re blogging…” All of them make sense, but can be easy to forget when you’re in full steam. I’m such an amateur…
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October 14th, 2006 at 7:00 pm
Last week I got myself the newest episode of South Park. It was truly magnificent, well made and quite frankly hilarious. As Blizzard were involved heavily in the creation of the episode and have been raving about it, there is no chance of legal action from them!
Anyways, one week on I have myself a copy of the game, a monthly subscription and have found that the amount of players there as a result of South Park is immense. The only issue which now worries me is the potential for mass product placement in this fashion as I was well and truly sold.