Links for 18-11-2007
Short fiction markets list, more on metaverse crime, robotic roaches …
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1 – Ralan’s Webstravaganza – genre short fiction markets list site
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2 – Screen grabbers – crime hits the digital frontier
“It is still a puzzle to many people how virtual goods that have no existence outside the computer code that generates them can be worth real money. But anything has value if people are prepared to pay for it.”
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3 – Professor who created Dolly the sheep to abandon cloning
“… in favour of a new technique that can create stem cells without an embryo, it was reported last night. Professor Ian Wilmut [...] has decided that cloning no longer provides to most effective means of curing medical conditions.”
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4 – Robotic Roaches Do the Trick
“If the critical-mass hypothesis has merit, Halloy and his co-workers figured they should be able to trick the roaches into doing something unnatural. To do that, they would need a rogue roach to infiltrate the herd.”
