Ads in novels, Orwellian UK, knowledge as a drug, wrist-worn PC…

• 1 – Should Novelists Sell Advertisements?
  A not-as-crazy-as-it-might-sound idea from David Louis Edelman.
  (tags: branding placement product marketing advertising writing novels books)
• 2 – Keeping an eye on Big Brother
  One CCTV camera for every 14 citizens. Welcome to the UK!
  (tags: control crime totalitarianism Orwell Brother Big cameras CCTV surveillance privacy)
• 3 – Slow-frozen people? Latest research supports possibility of cyropreservation
  They could freeze people before; it was defrosting them without turning them to mush that was tricky.
  (tags: damage ice freezing human medicine cryopreservation preservation body cryonics science)
• 4 – ‘Thirst for knowledge’ may be opium craving
  The high you get from grokking something properly is analogous to a serious natural drug-fix. This could explain my exponentially increasing interest in science and tech recently…
  (tags: neuroscience addiction opiates learning human biology psychology brain science)
• 5 – Global fiber-to-the-home use to surge
  Fancy a 100Mps broadband connection? Me too…only two years to wait before it becomes a standard, allegedly. Link via Advanced Nanotech.
  (tags: expansion bandwidth speed connection internet cable optic fiber broadband)
• 6 – This Discrete Universe: Time Exposed via Computational Omniscience
  Physics and philosophical headf*ck weirdness at The Huge Entity – the universe as a computation.
  (tags: hypothesis Lloyd’s cosmology computation universe philosophy singularity technology)
• 7 – Virtual Nano-Lego!
  Software for designing and modelling your own theoretical nanotech machines! Nice little demos to look at; imagine a differential gear system made at an atomic scale. Degrees in atomic physics helpful if you want to do more than look at the pictures.
  (tags: simulation nanotech gear differential modelling software design nanotechnology atomic)
• 8 – Scientists Develop Anti-Aging Compound
  The Memepunks talk up the new compound CKG733, which can reset the ageing process at a cellular level. No immortality pills yet, though.
  (tags: transhumanism cellular senescence biology human medicine compound CKG733 ageing)
• 9 – Biodiesel? Get over it; biobutanol’s the thing.
  More alternative fuels are cropping up, now that the big businesses have realised that oil is a dying industry (in more ways than one).
  (tags: futurism ecology automotive car diesel biobutanol butanol biofuels)
• 10 – Hektor; the Graffiti Output Device.
  This is a repost on VCTB, but they’ve added a whole lotta stuff to the site since last time, including video goodness. If you like graffiti, robots or both, you must see this. Reminder from Coudal Partners.
  (tags: vandalism videos computer technology electronic street robot paint graffiti art)
• 11 – Fully Internal Watercooled Xbox 360
  Those 360s get pretty hot, apparently. But not this one. Slick professional modding, right there. Link via Engadget.
  (tags: case gaming hack geek cooling water modding mod Xbox)
• 12 – How Much More Can We Do With Less?
  Post at Worldchanging regarding using the world’s resources more effectively, and just how easy it would actually be.
  (tags: efficiency consumption resources futurism green ecology environment)
• 13 – US Navy decides railguns might be a good idea
  Real life slowly catching up with science fiction, as always.
  (tags: futurism projectile launch electromagnetic gun rail weapon military Navy US)
• 14 – How to Build a Low-Cost, Extended-Range RFID Skimmer
  Does what it says on the tin. Everything (inevitably) gets hacked, even (especially?) the things touted by government experts as ‘unhackable’. Link via BoingBoing.
  (tags: skimmer make howto technology surveillance hacking security arphid RFID)
• 15 – Computer age produces new social system
  Once again, one of the ‘soft’ sciences trumpets news that was blatantly obvious to anyone who wanted to know it – music downloading networks are like miniature societies! ZOMFG!!!11!11eleventyone!
  (tags: computer web solidarity reciprocity system community social networks sharing file P2P)
• 16 – Astronomy detectors could become nuke hunters
  That ‘homeland security’ market, well, that’s a way better dollar than your astronomy market, my friend…
  (tags: security homeland technology ray gamma neutron material nuclear detector photon MAGIC)
• 17 – BitTorrent Could Become a Channel for Branded Entertainment
  When the marketing people start saying it, you know there must be a watertight way of turning a profit from it. Let’s hope Rubel’s right on this one.
  (tags: media content copyright DRM BitTorrent distribution movies music marketing Rubel Steve branded entertainment)
• 18 – Wrist-worn Linux PC demoed at military tech conference
  I’d really want one of these, if they didn’t look so much like Star Trek TNG props. Give it a year or two, though…Link via ZDNet.
  (tags: geek futurism device source open Linux PC wearable technology computer)
• 19 – Earth Surrounded by Giant Fizzy Bubbles
  No, not a Coca-cola marketing scam; strange things are afoot beyond the magnetosphere.
  (tags: bubbles gas superhot shock bow magnetosphere wind solar field magnetic Earth space)

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