Links for 18-12-2006
Taxi drivers growing brains, US rattles satellite sabres, Project Daedalus remembered, where you are on the map of the internet…
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“Satellite navigation systems can stunt your brain, preventing it from developing, according to scientists. They have discovered that taxi drivers have actually grown more brain cells because of all the knowledge they keep in their heads.”
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“Daedalus was the first serious and thorough design for a starship, a robotic interstellar probe that would reach Barnard’s Star in about fifty years, moving at twelve percent of the speed of light.” A Brit design, too, believe it or not.
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“The administration insists that there is no arms race in space, although the United States is the only nation that opposed a recent United Nations call for talks on keeping weapons out of space.” Zing!
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Does what it says on the tin.
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“…for seizing the reins of the global media, for founding and framing the new digital democracy, for working for nothing and beating the pros at their own game, TIME’s Person of the Year for 2006 is you.” ZOMFG! Er, I’d like to thank my agent, my ISP ..
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“Time magazine just announced that their person of the year is ‘you’ – meaning all of us involved in social media content. I find this particularly uninspiring.” Matthew Hurst is unimpressed at big media blah2.0 bandwagoneering.
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Not sure where you lie in the great wilderness that is the Internet? Wondering how far away your friends (or enemies) are along the TCP/IP pipes? Look no further — just use the Map of the Internet!
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Does what it says on the tin. I know I’m looking forward to my copy arriving in time for the holiday downtime!
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December 19th, 2006 at 2:43 am
[...] Hourann Bosci mashed up xkcd’s Map of the Internet to create map-o-net. Map your IP (or any host) within the IPv4 structure (thanks, Armchair Anarchist). [...]