Rushkoff short story, Japanese turtle invasion, flexible chips, motorised skateboard…

• 1 - ‘Inbox’ by Douglas Rushkoff
  A smart little short-short SF story by Douglas Rushkoff. Well worth the five minutes it’ll take to read it. Link via BoingBoing.
  (tags: augmentation biological nanotech futurism Inbox Rushkoff Douglas fiction science story short)
• 2 - Emperor by Stephen Baxter
  The UK king of hard SF takes a stab at historical fiction…this review doesn’t think much of the results.
  (tags: literature Roman novel historical fiction science Baxter Stephen review books)
• 3 - How to Get Information to Flow Backward
  David Louis Edelman has ideas for going beyond trackbacks. This guy does some good thinking, must try to hook up his new book.
  (tags: source tracking rumour functionality extend data trackback traceability information web internet)
• 4 - Yahoo Seriously Considering Unrestricted MP3 Downloads?
  Hmm, this could get interesting.
  (tags: model business filesharing property intellectual copyright download files music DRM Yahoo)
• 5 - So, What Do the Murderous Mean When They Say “Murder Is Wrong”?
  Dale ‘amor mundi’ Carrico sums up the Bush veto succinctly. Ignorant little redneck cretin. (Bush, not Dale, BTW.)
  (tags: idiocy research health medicine politics US veto cell stem Bush)
• 6 - Japanese Turtle Invasion!
  Japanese authorites are dealing harshly with a recent incursion-wave of rogue turtles. Weird, but true.
  (tags: alligator snapping capture animals rogue invasion turtle Japan)
• 7 - Pew study on bloggers
  “One in ten bloggers spend ten or more hours per week on their blog.” I feel even more sad than usual now. Meh.
  (tags: expression creativity journalism hobby blogging bloggers blogs survey report study Pew)
• 8 - Dewey Weber Twin Motor Skateboard
  I want one! Link via TechEBlog.
  (tags: fun geek travel street urban skateboard motorised transport gadget)
• 9 - Mystery of Explosive Star Solved
  Looks like the standard model for novae needs updating…this one seems to ‘go off’ every twenty years or so. I think it was also on one of the better trade routes in ‘Elite’.
  (tags: material jets twin dwarf white observation explosion Ophiuchi RS nova star space)
• 10 - An Updated Catalog of Nearby Exoplanets
  We’ve got nearly a hundred of the things logged now, and the data is improving the longer we watch.
  (tags: catalog microlensing Doppler data observation research discovery exoplanet space)
• 11 - Wide Awake in the Sea of Tranquillity
  The Apollo crew had a bit of trouble sleeping while on the moon, apparently. I’m thinking that utterly strung-out and hyper-excited nerves may have had more than a little to do with it.
  (tags: space Tranquillity Sea sleep module Aldrin Armstrong landing Moon story chronicles Apollo NASA)
• 12 - Are black holes at the center of galaxies?
  Or is it actually a big lump of axions, which may or may not be something to do with tha ‘dark matter’ stuff that everyone is so desperate to find?
  (tags: cosmology matter dark theory hypothetical particles axions hole black core galaxies space)
• 13 - AE Innovations - Wearable Computing and Eyeglass mounted displays
  This guy just went and built his own head-up display into a normal pair of sunglasses. Cyberpunk-o-rama! I want one! Link via MAKEblog.
  (tags: fiction science hacks DIY HUD display up head cyberpunk cyberglasses technology futurism)
• 14 - Team Invents Fast, Flexible Computer Chips On Plastic
  Does what it says on the tin. This may mean the long-promised flexible ebook has some chance of actually being made. Link via AdvancedNanotechnology.
  (tags: materials plastic paradigm design chips computing flexible technology electronics circuits semiconductor)
• 15 - Philips to Treat War Wounds
  If there is one good outcome of war, then it is the development of technologies that will help and heal the injured. This ultrasound device for fixing internal bleeding may turn out to be one such example.
  (tags: Philips technology cuff ultrasound bleeding internal limb wound military soldier injury battlefield health medicine)
• 16 - NASA seeks help for human exploration of Mars
  The big boys don’t want to walk all the way to the next town without some fellow travellers…
  (tags: exploration futurism missions Mars Moon partnerships station ISS collaboration NASA Griffin space)
• 17 - China eyes exploration of Mars
  …looks like there might be someone else on the same route, though, even if it’s not someone NASA want to walk with.
  (tags: China exploration futurism missions Mars Moon station space)

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