Augmented reality; local marketing resources; weird Martian landscaping; more music reviews and interviews …

• 1 – How to be a genius

  “Whatever their talents or genetic gifts, most everyone who earned the label genius was dedicated to their work: the list of lazy geniuses is short.” Damn.

  (tags: inspiration drive dedication work genius)

• 2 – Reality, only better (Augmented reality)

  Good article at The Economist.

  (tags: futurism technology computing communication metaverse reality augnmented AR)

• 3 – 30 local resources you can’t live without

  “Everyone is pushing “how to make money online” these days and people tend to forget exactly how much advertising and resources there are OFFLINE.”

  (tags: resources local networking advertising marketing business)

• 4 – Strange Shapes Seen on Mars

  “New observations from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter … bolster theories that the intricate patterns may be sculpted by springtime outbursts of carbon dioxide gas from underneath the frozen-carbon dioxide polar ice cap.”

  (tags: cap ice co2 outgassing terrain astronomy Mars space)

• 5 – MIND MELD: How Have Online Book Reviews Affected the Publishing World?

  Kinda online kaffeklatch type gig, featuring a response from yours truly among other (far more erudite and qualified) persons.

  (tags: paulgraven debate publishing reviews book online genre fiction science scifi sf)

• 6 – Interview: Qui – David Yow (vocals) & Matt Cronk (guitar, vocals)

  “I mean, you’re no doubt familiar with my previous work … to me, the difference between The Jesus Lizard and Qui is like the difference between Bobby Brown and James Brown, y’know what I’m saying?”

  (tags: paulgraven MattCronk DavidYow Qui interview music)

• 7 – Album review: The Violets – The Lost Pages

  “… generalisation is risky, especially with an album like this, where every song is subtly different. Some are rabidly punky, some are closer to the vanilla indie disco of the moment, and some venture off into … well, almost acid cabaret territory, to

  (tags: paulgraven TheLostPages TheViolets review album music)

• 8 – Album review: Laguna Meth – Laguna The Puma

  “… as weird as it is, it’s really quite awesome too. If by awesome you mean “wilfully drug-addled and carefree like a Venice Beach tramp who knew Owsley back in the sixties and hasn’t come down since”, that is.”

  (tags: paulgraven LagunaThePuma LagunaMeth review album music)

• 9 – Amateur Time Hackers Play With Atomic Clocks at Home

  “If you have one clock … you are peaceful and have no worries,” says Van Baak, fingering a length of cable connecting two of his machines. “If you have two clocks … you start asking, ‘What time is it, really?’”

  (tags: geek hackers time technology science relativity physics clock atomic)