Links for 24-06-2006
Chinese pyramids, head-expanding webpages, library fines, Blue Gene…
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Talk about serendipity; find a way to store hydrogen as a fuel in carbon based materials, and at the same time find a way to produce nanocrystalline diamonds. Result!
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Yet another ancient site unearthed! It’s been a bumber crop this year…is this the result of crowdsourcing on Google earth, perhaps?
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This oversized webpage puts across a sense of perspective on atomic distances and sizes…
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….and this page is stupidly large as well, a real thought provoker.
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Razib at Gene expression discovers the horrible truth about library fines.
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Anaheim, California will be the first city to get municipal wi-fi internet. It’ll be interesting to see how this works out.
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US starts to panic about the possibility of terrorism in space.
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Scientifically proven…cheating is the best way to win on eBay. Although I work on the theory that if you only make one bid, of the maximum amount you are willing to pay, and leave it at that, you’ll never end up paying more than you want to. Meh.
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Of course, you need a pretty fast computer to do that sort of thing…
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…but the boys at Big Blue aren’t resting on their laurels, especially not with all the competition coming down the pike.
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The Mac expounds his theories about the beings that we may share a planet with, touching on transhumanism, retooling humans for new environments, and the singularity.
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Jamais Cascio backs up my stance on people misinterpreting Hawking.
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13 – Troika DatasoundWeird art project for turning digital data into sound…sample, mix and scratch using the audio output of viruses, spreadsheets, love letters, whatever.
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More money than sense? You need this carbon-fiber-finish toilet bowl.
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Sort of the ultimate in minimalist case-modding…to have no case at all.
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Centauri Dreams lays down the historical context.
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Strange, but apparently true.
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June 25th, 2006 at 6:48 pm
“The Mac.” Nice