Long Tail dissent, cyber-ASBOs, solar boats, metal album covers…

• 1 – The Missing Tail
  Not everyone is quite so keen on the ‘Long Tail’ economic model…here is some dissent.
  (tags: industry content hits blockbuster demise opposition dissent model business marketing economics Tail Long)
• 2 – Net Neutrality Primer
  You’ve heard the words, but do you know what they actually mean? Get the lowdown, right here. Link via Lifehacker.
  (tags: knowledge rights consumer legislation computer internet law politics business primer neutrality net)
• 3 – Super-Asbos planned for UK cybercriminals
  Suspected unconfirmed cybercriminals, that is. Welcome to a country governed by totalitarianism.
  (tags: totalitarianism crime evidence court civil process legal law suspicion hackers cybercrime ASBO UK)
• 4 – Clones ‘would feel individuality’
  Three words for you… No. Sh*t. Sherlock. There’s an Ignobel Prize entry if ever I saw one.
  (tags: futurism nurture nature individuality biology science genetics ethics cloning)
• 5 – Brits Float Solar Boat
  Nice to see us leading the pack at something…even if it’s only very slow solar-powered watercraft.
  (tags: Serpentine tourism technology environment energy power solar boat London UK)
• 6 – The Top Ten Greatest Heavy Metal Album Covers of All Time
  The best…
  (tags: classic quality design art sleeve album music metal heavy)
• 7 – The 10 Most Ridiculous Metal Album Covers
  …and the worst. Links via Coudal Partners.
  (tags: cheese ridiculous design art sleeve album music metal heavy)
• 8 – CyberNotes: Tag All Your Music Files Quickly
  Got a huge digital music collection? Find it hard to keep track? This little freeware program sounds like just the ticket.
  (tags: software PC index tracks artists names inventory tagging digital files music)
• 9 – Extreme Modding: When The Computer Makes Coffee
  Does what it says on the tin…a case mod computer with an espresso machine built into it. Clever, but crazy.
  (tags: caffeine machine espresso coffee computer modding mod case geek PC)
• 10 – Reinventing the Pitch Letter with Delicious
  Leverage social bookmarking for publicity methods. Hmmm….
  (tags: publicity networking bookmarking social letter pitch PR marketing del.icio.us)
• 11 – When Meat Culture Meets Cultured-Meat
  Amor Mundi discusses the hypocrisy of people disgusted by the idea of vat-grown meat as human food, and talks about the benefits it could have tor the environment.
  (tags: diet hypocricy disgust futurism food synthetic grown vat meat animals ethics)
• 12 – Urban Autobiographies
  Philadelphia unveils a fascinating urban art project. I’d love to see this happen here in Velcro City.
  (tags: advertising space reclaim writing autobiography urban project art US Philadelphia)
• 13 – Why We Can Be Confident of Turing Test Capability Within a Quarter Century
  Ray Kurzweil steps up with a chapter from his recent book, ‘The Singularity Is Near’. I really hope he’s right – upload me now!
  (tags: intelligence artificial AI technology transhumanism singularity futurism Kurzweil Ray)
• 14 – Balls to Mars!
  Engineers envision exploring Mars with mini probes…more efficient, more versatile, less of a financial disaster when one goes wrong.
  (tags: data technology distributed swarm balls probes exploration surface martian Mars space science)
• 15 – Talk about missing the boat…
  Sandia National Labs in the US reckon that supplying military bases their energy from a number of small renewable energy sources rather than a single power plant would be a great idea. Which may be why loads of other people have suggested it so many times
  (tags: ecology technology military US labs Sandia network source power distributed supply generation surety energy)
• 16 – Maybe We Should Leave That Up To The Computer…
  Join me in celebrating the potential replacement of middle-management by decision-making machines! Let me be the first to welcome my new machine overlords, who will inevitably make decisions more rational than the meatsacks they replace…link via Techdir
  (tags: decisions budgeting logic technology replacement management middle business computers)
• 17 – Carbon dioxide’s great underground escape in doubt
  Like *that* idea was ever going to work…the scientific equivalent of a kid tidying their bedroom by shoving all the mess under the bed.
  (tags: change climate science leakage experiment subterranean injection storage sequestration dioxide carbon)
• 18 – RFID Chips Could Help Surgeons Avoid Leaving Sponges In Patients
  But then, so could having them work shorter shifts…another job for the increasingly popular arphids.
  (tags: arphids technology health safety inventory tagging medicine instruments objects foreign operations surgery hospital RFID)