Links for 17-12-2006
Raph Koster launches new metaverse project, shoes2.0, best-selling US books for 2006, Eastercon back on…
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“As the year 2006 winds to a close, I suspect a key question on your mind is: What will happen in the wireless industry in 2007? This article makes ten predictions.” Does what it say on the tin – no surprises, but interesting anyway.
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“Raph Koster, revered designer of massively multiplayer online games like Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies (as well as being handy with a guitar and a line of verse) has announced his long-awaited startup.”
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3 – Smart soles“The soles of his new shoes have several hollow bladders, connected via narrow tubes, and filled with a deformable and electrically-activated liquid – such as an ester or amide of a phosphorous-based acid.” Shoes2.0, huh?
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“The real nonfiction shocker this year is that Freakonomics, an irreverent look at economics first published in 2005, has continued to sell so well in hardcover.” An interesting line-up.
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An excellent and perceptive review of Levy’s latest; as always, says everything about the book that I wish the review I’d already submitted had said. A fine novel, nonetheless; go read.
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“people ask me: Mike, what is this thing they call the Nova Swing ?” Looks like Michael James Harrison has joined the blogging massive…
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Eastercon is back on! w00t!
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