Links for 20-10-2007
HUD for athletes, habitable planets and binary star systems, William Gibson hates futurists …
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1 – How To Use VMWare To Survive A Computer Crash
“If you’ve never heard of VMware, it’s simply an application that lets you run a virtual computer inside your regular “host†computer … and you can do anything you want to the virtual machine without hosing up your real one.”
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2 – ‘Smart’ sunglasses show athletes a good time
“The sunglasses — dubbed “Informance” — display a stopwatch and heart rate at one edge. The extra components needed to do this add just 7 grams to the glasses’ overall weight …”
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3 – Binaries, Gas Giants and Habitable Worlds
“… binaries are tricky, and we still have much to learn about how such planets would form and where, and under what conditions certain kinds of objects are more likely to occur.”
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4 – William Gibson Hates Futurists
“Conspiracy theories are popular because no matter what they posit, they are all actually comforting, because they all are models of radical simplicity. I think they appeal to the infantile part of us that likes to know what’s going on.”
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5 – Neanderthals may have had headline writing gene
“Much of the blame for the public’s poor understanding of science must go to a little studied but culturally pivotal genre: news report headlines. Short snappy headlines provide the lazy reader with just enough information to totally misconstrue a story.”
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6 – How to Make 0/Day as a Freelance Writer
“While it is relatively simple and straightforward, it does take some elbow grease.”
