Links for 18-10-2006
Participation inequality, spam-nanotech, water on Mars, TV causes autism…
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“In most online communities, 90% of users are lurkers who never contribute, 9% of users contribute a little, and 1% of users account for almost all the action.” Any response from the regulars on these results, then?
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“It’s unfortunate that much of the “should there be DRM” debate is positioned as “the recording industry” against “people who just want free music…” Techdirt has its eye on the vibes.
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“Forget home-printed assault rifles and field-produced drones. Forget gray, green and red goo. The real danger we will face in the time of molecular manufacturing is spam.” Ye gods, will it ever end?
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“The big picture of a warm wet Mars is not completely correct. Any warm wet period lasted only a few hundred million years. By four thousand million years ago, it was over…” Interesting stuff.
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“I want to go to the US by ship. The Cure did that years ago because Robert Smith refused to fly, and then I get told that if you take the ship, that’s as much carbon usage.” A fleet of pedaloes, maybe?
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“Overall, more than two thirds of the British population has tried some kind of digital activity … the survey … noted that more than a quarter had created their own website or blog.” I’m guessing MySpazz is included in those results.
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“Today, Cornell University researchers are reporting what appears to be a statistically significant relationship between autism rates and television watching by children under the age of 3.” I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
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” … the U.S. Congress is in the preliminary stages of looking into virtual economies such as Second Life’s and World of Warcraft’s, and the public policy issues surrounding them.” The fun’s over, boys and girls!
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“Epic games of beach volleyball, urban indoor workspaces infused with natural light, enthusiasm for the outdoors – at Google, we’ve always taken advantage of the sun. And now we’re ready to use the sun yet another way: to create clean electricity.”
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“The Worlds of David Darling is a large on-line collection of information on astronomy, astrobiology, spaceflight, physics, and other areas of science and mathematics, both conventional and speculative (teleportation, time travel, etc).” Result!
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“SF has always been a ghetto genre, of course, and has struggled for legitimacy for its whole existence. The result is that it has a much stronger sense of its own history.” Raph Koster digs sf cons! Via Tobias Buckell.
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Does what it say on the tin.
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This also does what it says on the tin.
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October 18th, 2006 at 12:10 pm
Is ‘does what it says on the tin’ a phrase outside of the UK?
October 18th, 2006 at 2:58 pm
It’s not that widely known, perhaps, but it’s quite self-explanatory even without the cultural reference, and any internet habitue would be able to elucidate its meaning if they wanted to…