Links for 18-08-2006
Pluto debate rolls on, Russian SF cinema, Mars has zits, MMORPGs ‘not antisocial’ after all…
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Ever the contrarian, Charles Stross weighs in on the Pluto debate.
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Need a cheap wifi signal booster? Grab yourself a cheap Chinese fry-basket utensil, and set to it with a soldering iron and a glue gun. From Kevin Kelly’s new ‘Street Use’ blog – you need this in your feedreader, like, today.
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“Unknown Treasures of Soviet and Russian Sci Fi Cinema” – interesting little side-piece on Worldchanging.com.
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Huge repository of free-to-download fonts in all styles and sizes. Jazz up your letterheads! (Or not.) Link via Lifehacker.
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Dark patches explained; every spring, Mars develops a serious case of carbon-dioxide zits.
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Nova Spivak brainstorms in the wake of the AOL search-data debacle.
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The US are planning a ‘CERN-killer’; the International Linear Collider (if built) will be a 19 mile long device with similar functions to CERN’s LHC.
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Ed Willett speaks out in Canada’s Leader-Post newspaper; does what it says on the tin. Link via SF Signal.
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True to their open-source ethics, the perps of this publicity stunt have documented the entire process online for all to see. Will this squelch crop circle numbers, or produce an upsurge of them?
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The appearance of lauded web2.0 startup Kiko.com in an eBay auction has the business world clucking, and casting Google as the new Microsoft (again).
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Stop the press! You don’t have to be in the same physical space as someone to form a meaningful friendship with them! Computer games may not be seducing youth after all, but actually providing somewhere to hangout that they aren’t banned from going! ZOMFG
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See, the cosmologists and astronomers *can* agree on things occasionally.
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Sounds like an over-hyped, commercially and ergonomically impractical university lab project to me, but their hearts are in the right place.
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Scientists have identified a gene that just might be the key to the unique evolution of the human brain.
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“In an email interview with Red Herring, Mr. Torvalds says the increasing focus of venture capitalists and large companies on open source can only be good for a community that, until now, was on the fringes of the commercial realm.”
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“A single cobalt atom has been made to hop back and forth between two positions in response to an electric current…technique could some day lead to the development of “atomic switches” for nanoscale devices.” More fun at the naoscale.
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