Links for 24-08-2007
Tidal turbines, cold fusion keeps on ticking, the net gets feminised (hopefully), galaxy-sized wiki, some soft- and hardware tips and tricks, and a load of rhetoric and logic links …
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1 – Underwater turbines set to generate record power
“By the end of the year, twin underwater turbines should be generating 1.2 megawatts of electricity off the coast of Northern Ireland in a landmark demonstration of tidal power technology.” Good stuff.
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2 – Cold-Fusion Graybeards Keep the Research Coming
“Despite a backdrop of meager funding and career-killing derision from mainstream scientists and engineers, cold fusion is anything but a dead field of research.”
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3 – Album review: Pox – On Your House
Ex-dEUS alt-rock veterans deliver a characteristically understated album that will haunt you for days
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4 – Consumer Survey shows the decline of TV as the Primary Media Device
“Armed with PC, mobile and interactive content and tools, consumers are vying for control of attention, content and creativity. Despite natural lags among marketers, advertising revenues will follow consumers’ habits.”
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5 – It’s arrived: the feminisation of the net
“For years cyberspace has been tailored to an audience of mainly young men but for the first time women webusers have taken the lead in key age groups.” I hope this means less car adverts.
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6 – Galaxiki, a fictional galaxy anyone can edit
Just as it says – an imaginary galaxy based on a wiki platform. Get in there and make your own solar system! Or slowly and stealthily build Banks’s Culture …
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7 – So you want to create WordPress themes, huh?
“Creating a WordPress theme from scratch is not hard. I’ll hold your hand through it.” Noice!
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8 – How to stream your music to any PC
“The path of least resistance is to leave your music library in its current home: your home PC. Because there’s nothing to upload, you can start streaming almost instantly. You just need to choose an application/service that satisfies your needs.”
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9 – Power Saving Remote Computing
“By making use of DD-WRT and my computer’s BIOS settings I am now able to access my computer remotely when needed and allow scheduled tasks to run without having to leave my computer on all the time.”
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10 – Voyager Interstellar Mission Proceeds
“Both Voyagers remain healthy, continuing studies of the solar wind, magnetic fields and energetic particles with their five functioning science instruments.”
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11 – Why there is no such thing as internet addiction
“‘Internet addiction’ doesn’t exist. It can’t, because it’s a logical impossibility, a category error, and there’s no good evidence that heavy internet use, in itself, is a risk to mental health.” That’s a relief!
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12 – The Ultimate Article Pitch
“You have a great idea for an article that will make people think. But what’s this? The dreaded blank page. Although, it’s not the article – not yet. It’s the pitch to the editor.”
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13 – A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
“This book contains definitions and examples of more than sixty traditional rhetorical devices, all of which can still be useful today to improve the effectiveness, clarity, and enjoyment of your writing.”
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14 – The Taxonomy of Logical Fallacies
Does precisely what it says on the tin.
