Links for 23-10-2006
Deal or No Deal, Stross speaks out on genre, Chris Anderson gets free, UK fingerprints pub customers…
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“When Deal Or No Deal first hit our screens, Jon Ronson was instantly hooked. One year on, he goes behind the scenes to work out the show’s mass appeal. Is it all about chance, or just a little cosmic ordering?” Excellent article.
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“Now, don’t get me wrong. I still like traditional SF — hell, I sometimes even write it! But the underlying assumptions of much of it are so questionable that these days we need to approach them with the proverbial three metre barge-pole.” Stross.
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“WebSnapr lets you capture screenshots of (almost) any web page. Let your visitors to instantly visualize any web page before clicking. Increase site traffic, click-through rate and site stickiness.” Could come in handy.
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Transcript/report of Chris ‘Long Tail’ Anderson’s presentation at the Pop!tech conference, over on Worldchanging.
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“I’m working on the revisions to my novel ‘Postsingular’ for Tor. For today’s text, I’ll drop in some of an opening scene I wrote…” Rudy Rucker shares out the goodies – cover art for forthcoming book also.
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“There are tens of thousands of people out there who still think I’m Spider Jerusalem, which is the irritant penalty for breaking the rule and spending five years writing about a writer.”
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“The government is is funding the roll out of fingerprint security at the doors of pubs and clubs in major English cities. Funding is being offered to councils that want to have their pubs keep a regional black list of known trouble makers.” Oh. My. God.
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“The Archive of the Now is an online and print repository of recordings, printed texts and manuscripts, focussing on innovative contemporary poetry being written or performed in Britain.”
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“We need bestsellers. But we don’t spend all of our time on them, and we don’t sweep non-bestselling books (or their authors) off to the glue factory. We need all the other books as well. Because you never know.”
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“Most fonts presented below are absolutely license-free which means that you can use them for both private, personal and commercial purposes without any limitations whatsoever.”
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11 – Doing The Cube“The infamous Rubik’s cube is solvable from any mixed up position.” Still doesn’t look too easy.
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Does what it says on the tin – it’s getting to a point where computers just don’t have to look like computers at all.
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“The chip contains light sensors and circuitry that functions in much the same way as nerves in a real retina…”
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“The music acts are moving in with their labels. The clothing manufacturers are setting up shop. And it now appears that GM is going to follow Toyota into Second Life…”
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