Links for 14-03-2007
Transhumanist Gilbert and Sullivan, online book trailers, website graveyard, Enceladus, black holes and asteroids…
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1 – “I am the very model of a Singularitarian!”
You’ll either find this hilarious, strangely disturbing, or utterly confusing.
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“It’s a collaborative short fiction site.” Another Scalzi project – I still can’t quite work out how hei finds time to do all those ancillary luxury tasks, like sleeping and bathing and so on. I must steal his Modafinil supply!
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“To be honest the best looking ones are the cheaper ‘book cover’ ones without the bad acting and low level special effects.” Spotted by Tobias Buckell. I’m not going to even look.
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“The University of North Texas Libraries and the U.S. Government Printing Office [...] created a partnership to provide permanent public access to the Web sites and publications of defunct U.S. government agencies and commissions.”
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5 – Enceladus: Hot at the Core?
“So is there an organic-rich mixture below the surface of Enceladus even today? Cassini found hydrocarbon chains in the moon’s plume, which means we can’t rule this scenario out.”
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6 – Mrs Darwin’s diaries go online
“The diaries of Emma Wedgewood, wife and cousin of Charles Darwin, give a daily record of events in the Darwin household for nearly six decades.”
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7 – Tracking of Killer Asteroids Runs Low on Money and Short on Time
“NASA can find and track most of the nearby asteroids that could hit and damage the Earth, but there is not enough money in its budget to finish the project within a 15-year deadline mandated by Congress…” Noo Yoick Times.
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8 – 1300 black holes
“Ironically, black holes aren’t too hard to find. They’re bright. Here’s a bunch of ‘em…” Space is not just big, it’s quite pretty too – and great fun to think about.
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Sean Green launches the newest amateur crit-blog on the scene. We’ll be reading, man!
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10 – Dark Lords of Cyberpunk Sore Vexed At Kessel and Kelly
“Yesterday John Shirley and I exchanged some email, sharing our annoyance at being passed over by John Kessel and James Patrick Kelly for their anthology, Rewired: The New Cyberpunk Anthology… As if K & K ever really “got” cyberpunk.”
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11 – REVIEW: 2006 Nebula Award Short Fiction Nominees
“Like last year, I undertook a project to read the short fiction nominees for this year’s Nebula Award.” SF Signal’s John manages to net all but one of them, too.
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12 – History, Digitized (and Abridged)
“Material that is not digitized risks being neglected as it would not have been in the past, virtually lost to the great majority of potential users.” Interesting and important article from the NYT.
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13 – Osama Phone Home
“What happens when an ideological, technologically adept, highly determined group of conspirators are American?” Free online short story from David Marusek of ‘Counting Heads’ fame. Via SFBC and a tip-off from Niall.
March 14th, 2007 at 8:47 am
Cheers, Paul! I have to point out, though, that my name is spelled “Shaun”…
March 14th, 2007 at 9:46 am
D’oh! Duly noted, Shaun, and my apologies. I have a real mental blindspot with names – you’re probably lucky I didn’t call you Steve or something …