Links for 19-06-2006
Robot ethics, hard-drive case mod, squashed philosophers…
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1 – The Governments Are Collapsing: The Cities of the Plain, by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. (May 26, 2006)Very heavy essay indeed. Via Subtopia.
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From Jeff Vandermeer.
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The people at Euron are planning ahead for the arrival of sentient autonomous robots…a full post on this already filed away for Tuesday!
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Great philosophical works, condensed in their own words. Brilliant idea, go take a look.
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A look at the PAMELA probe’s mission. Thanks to Centauri Dreams for the tip-off.
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A PC case made out of dead hard drives. No, really.
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Stross, Gaiman, Doctorow, Link, Bear…
Tags: links
June 19th, 2006 at 6:29 pm
Double A I have to give you a big raspberry for the first link. Hate to do it because you’re links are normaly primo. My brow was furrowing about 5% of the way in and then I hit this line:
Otherwise, one of the suitable images of the particular threat today, comes, thus, from ancient Biblical accounts of the fall of the Tower of Babel, the self-inflicted collapse of an earlier attempt at “globalization.”
And then I stopped reading.
The other links are good. I don’t have broadband at home at the mo so I appreciate you doing my surfing for me. Cheers.
June 19th, 2006 at 9:30 pm
Rather controversial, that one, isn’t it? I agree, it started quite well, and then wandered into the territory of the extremely weird. Thought I’d link it anyhow – I like to look at what all sides are saying, no matter how unhinged their metaphors and analogies become. I think I saw where he was going, but I’ll confess I didn’t make it all the way through myself…I may try to wade through the whole thing when I get a spare moment, just to see how he rounded it off (or *if* he rounded it off!)
Glad to be of service, old chap…I surf the web, so you don’t have to!