Links for 14-07-2006
Urban dorms, telecommuting, zombie dogs, extinct rhinos…
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David Louis Edelman has an idea that reminds me of the ‘Campaign for Digital Democracy’ idea I’ve been kicking around my mind. Expect more on this in the future.
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So THAT’S why I’m putting on weight…
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Welcome to the new generation of house-sharing – kiss goodbye to your own room.
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Imported insects could steal the fire from the local varieties. And still no-one knows how they fly.
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Is working from home the new rock’n'roll? Not yet, but let’s hope it becomes it, real soon.
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Could despotism be the only thing that can save us from environmental collapse? This rather pessimistic post seems to think it might be – that’s not to say he’s happy about it, though.
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Looks like that prototype inflatable space-hotel is up and running, all systems go.
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Warning – exceptionally NOT SAFE FOR WORK, and may cause distress in the close-minded. A mock-up site advertising potential bodyhacks of the future, found in a post at OpenTheFuture…
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9 – Tomorrow Makers…where Jamais Cascio talks about ‘artifact creation’ as a promotional tool for futurism in the ‘noughties. Food for thought.
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Post-title-of-the-day award goes to Betterhumans, who ask some interesting questions about a news story regarding the medical reanimation of dogs that have been dead for three hours. Really.
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PingMag interviews Gez Fry, manga-style artist who does all his work on computer, no pens or pencils or paper at all. Lots of his artwork on the page too, good stuff.
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12 – Non-Errors“Those usages people keep telling you are wrong but which are actually standard in English.” Slight US bias, but an interesting read for fans of precision in the English language.
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This sort of news really really sucks. So does the fact that this sort of news is going to become a lot more common in the near future.
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John Scalzi rounds up “10 Ways Ken Lay is Not Like Martin Luther King Jr. and/or Jesus Christ”. Funny and true; always a good combination.
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Soldiers getting post-traumatic stress? The US military’s solution – give them drugs and VR re-runs of their tours of duty. Maybe counselling might be a better move? Or, dare I say it, not sending them to war in the first place? Just a thought.
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16 – The LocrakerRichard Feynman would have loved it…the Locracker is a device that uses a stepper motor to unlock a dial-combination lock by ‘brute-force’ – not by smashing it, just by trying all the potential combinations in a relatively short period of time. Link via
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Some good reasons to stick with XP if you can, and some ways to make it possible. If Vista’s as trumped up as XP was, it’ll be a wise move. I really must get round to learning Linux. Link via LifeHacker.
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Glagow Uni team working on retinal implants to restore sight to the blind. They envisage future versions having added features like slo-motion replay – add image capture to that, and citizen journalism takes a giant leap forward.
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Technology Review talks to leading AI boffin Marvin Minsky, on the 50th anniversary of artificial intelligence as a discreet field of study.
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20 – Lords of the RingYour chance to see inside the Large Hadron Collider as it nears completion, plus hear the physics boffins who will use it talk about what it’s for. Quicktime movie. Link via MAKEblog.
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