The 1% rule, recycling books, giant robot squid, ‘Evil Dead: The Musical’…

• 1 – Bluetooth stereo headphone conversion
  Does what it says on the tin.
  (tags: music geek technology DIY make hacks headphones bluetooth)
• 2 – What is the 1% rule?
  Oooh, new meme alert! The creator/consumer ratio and YouTube, and more.
  (tags: content video internet downloads uploads statistics meme ratio consumer creator YouTube)
• 3 – How (And How Not) To Market To Me When I’m in Blogger Mode
  John Scalzi exposes the differing methods of web marketeers, and explains their successes and failures.
  (tags: co-promotion services business email offers deal marketing blog web)
• 4 – Google site to aid the blind
  New web service to help vision-impaired web users by providing stripped-down versions of websites for reading by text-to-speech software.
  (tags: portal site web speech text service impaired vision blind Google)
• 5 – Inner City Youth, London
  Excellent photos and audio-essay from a guy who documents the London inner-city estates, and the kids on the ‘grime’ hip-hop scene.
  (tags: essay photo music grime violence drugs culture urban deprivation youth london city inner)
• 6 – Saving the Planet, One Book at a Time
  Recycling is a great idea, but paper? Get with the program, plastic is the way to go. NYT article with irritating 10 second flash ad before text appears. Link via SF Signal.
  (tags: technology environment ecology plastics paper recycling futurism books)
• 7 – On Infodumping
  Niall Harrison rounds up the different methods used by sf authors to ‘infodump’, comparing and contrasting as he goes. Interesting stuff, and a revealing read for would-be writers.
  (tags: tools methods literature fiction science techniques infodump discussion writing sf)
• 8 – One in Nine Brits Blog
  Eight of them, one of me. Heh.
  (tags: trust media numbers survey blogging bloggers blogs British UK)
• 9 – Giant interactive squid robot in the works
  Japanese city plans giant robotic squid to celebrate their favourite sea-beasties.
  (tags: creature animatronic festival squid robot Hakodate Japan)
• 10 – Low position on social status ladder linked to faster ageing
  There’s a science fiction novel in this one for sure – if I only had the time to write it. A sobering study, if the results mean what they seem to.
  (tags: UK health study low self-esteem strees biological aging cellular class status social)
• 11 – Bed sharing ‘drains men’s brains’
  Sharing a bed with a woman makes men miss out on sleep time, apparently. No, not for *that* reason.
  (tags: science study health psychology tiredness deprivation share bed sleep women men)
• 12 – Evil Dead: The Musical
  Please, someone, say it ain’t so. This is postmodernism run amok, and no mistake. Link via Clarkblog.
  (tags: postmodernism humour film Dead Evil musical theatre movie horror)
• 13 – Novel nano-etched cavity makes leds 7 times brighter
  Does what it says on the tin.
  (tags: etching nanoscale brightness LED electronics optics technology science)
• 14 – Patch of Saturn’s Moon Resembles Earth
  …or it would do, but for the fact it’s made up entirely of frozen methane and ethane. Links to image galleries if you click on through.
  (tags: methane frozen valleys hills topography images radar probe Cassini space Saturn moon Titan)
• 15 – Maverick medic reveals details of baby cloning experiment
  Hold your breath – a massive ethics-war is about to break loose in the media. Expect hand-flapping, wild-eyed transhumanist polemic, religion-based sophistry…and a whole lot of bullsh*t from both sides.
  (tags: Zavos Panos research science reproductive publication debate ethics embryo cloning human fertility medicine)
• 16 – Is SETI Barking up the Wrong Tree?
  Seth Shostak rounds up the top four reasons people suggest for why SETI hasn’t found a signal. Humerous and informative. Plus it mentions the Fermi Paradox, so it *must* be good.
  (tags: space search extraterrestrial intelligence signals success lack public suggestions failure results SETI Shostak Seth)
• 17 – Miliband unveils carbon swipe-card plan
  Stop press! New Labour in good idea shocker! Update: implementation so ridiculously complex that it may never take off… UK government plans individual carbon taxation system.
  (tags: change climate law plans bureaucracy resources emissions carbon citizens individual tax government UK)
• 18 – Hollywood hates Science Fiction with a passion.
  A rare pleasure – a long post from Human Iterations, in high praise of Dick’s ‘A Scanner Darkly’ and Linklater’s movie adaptation thereof. Go read.
  (tags: assessment critique review adaptation movie Linklater book SF scifi fiction science Dick Philip Darkly Scanner)

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