Links for 16-12-2006
Steampunk beetles, bioprinting, economic weirdness in EVE, networking for introverts, Crichton show his true colours, sf at Project Gutenberg…
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Clockwork beetle art weirdness, via BoingBoing. A whole new genre of fiction awaits here – steambeetlepunk, anyone?
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“The Assassination Inquest of Diana, Princess of Wales Considered as an Unintentionally Ballardian Remix of the Warren Commission Report.” Chris Nakashima-Brown gets his riff on. Awesome.
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“One of the odder manifestations of the fabrication future may well revolutionize the world of medicine — and quite possibly change how we eat and offer a new way to fight global warming, too.” Jamais Cascio in fine form.
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“…something that’s rarely if ever been seen in EVE before: a mega-corporation that’s beholden to its shareholders, a company that will publish financial statements, and whose first order of business will be the maximisation of shareholder value.”
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“The search engine king and NASA are geared to broadcast a major announcement regarding their partnership tomorrow morning.” Oooooh!
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“Knowing lots of people reduces your headaches by a factor of 10 when you need to get something done. Requests from strangers don’t get filled as quickly as requests from acquaintances or friends.” Interesting. Is blogging networking?
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“Cyber-concrete can store information about itself, such as when, where and how it was manufactured and data about strength and quality, making for more efficient and reliable safety inspection systems.”
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“Nearly every writer has thought nasty things about critics. Many of them say those nasty things, when they meet at conventions, conferences, workshops, or wherever.” The man’s a weasel, as well as an airport-novel hack and ignoramus.
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9 – How I Write“I write to find out why I’m writing what I’m writing. I like to write from life, as in Climbers, but I like imaginative fiction too. Imagination is nonlinear, dynamical, not subject to reduction.” Fascinating insight from M. John Harrison, via GLP.
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“From concrete that can flex to sensors that you swallow, here are the technologies you’ll be talking about.” A slice of foresight at Popular Science, via Slashdot.
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“NASA’s planned moon base announced last week could pave the way for deeper space exploration to Mars, but one of the biggest beneficiaries may be the terrestrial energy industry.” Oh, great; let’s export resource wars to the moon, too.
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“Detailed observations from the first comet samples returned to Earth are debunking some of science’s long-held beliefs on how the icy, celestial bodies form.” Primordial material abounds, forsooth!
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Scalzi gives Watts’ ‘Blindsight’ the big-up treatment, and recommends that we all go buy it as well as download it. My copy was dispatched from the roomy warehouses of Amazon just this morning…
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“And, glum as it is, it sure doesn’t sound very surprising.” Captain Sterling, he speak the truth.
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Project Gutenberg’s science fiction section – free-to-read classics of the genre! w00t!
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16 – BookplusSpoof ad for ‘traditional’ paper books as opposed to electronic readers. It got a LOL out of me, at least.
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