Links for 25-01-2007
The health benefits of coffee, Ecstacy as therapeutic medicine, MacLeod on the Middle East…
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1 – Stay Healthy: Drink Coffee!
“Moderate consumption of coffee is being shown to have generally positive and protective effects on the emergence of disease conditions.” w0000t! Cheers, Mac.
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2 – The End of MySpace (David Louis Edelman’s Blog)
“And like so many Web 1.0 companies that came before them, MySpace is headed for a big, clumsy fall. Here’s why.” David Louis Edelman predicts something I’ve been months longing for.
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3 – Ecstasy, the new prescription drug?
“Researchers in South Carolina have begun experimenting with MDMA for patients with post-traumatic stress disorder.” The world gets weirder by the day.
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4 – A Librarian’s Lament: Books Are a Hard Sell
“…from my vantage point at the reference desk, something is amiss. The books in the library stacks are gathering dust.” This is not a unique experience, sadly.
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5 – I am Womb, I am Vagina: Women As Roles Rather than Characters
“Certain conventions are sure to minimize my enjoyment of a narrative, and chief among them is the narrowing of women’s roles to those related to reproduction and/or Relationship to the Male.”
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“Very likely there will be no US or Israeli attack on Iran. No, what’s far more probable is what will be presented as an Iranian attack on the US.” Ken MacLeod with uncomfortably logical thoughts on the Middle East.
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7 – Animation of a Broken Space Elevator
“I have run a few simulations of a space elevator breaking. This page summarizes some results, and gives you access to animations.” Realistic disaster scenarios – not quite as disastrous as books and movies might make them, thankfully.
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Lifehacker’s greatest hits on note taking.
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9 – Rudy Rucker brainstorming on … telepathy
I WANT TO LIVE IN RUDY RUCKER’S HEAD. Actually, maybe we all already do. Whoa!
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10 – Beyond the Desktop: Computers for Animals
“The multitouch interface is so easy, in fact, that it will likely be the first computer interface usable by our pets and farm animals.” Karl Schroeder will be venerated as a god by all cat-kind.
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11 – Blackbird Rider: Carbon Fiber Guitar Waited for this Moment to Arise
“The Blackbird Rider is a guitar made out of carbon fiber that was designed using 3D CAD software.” It had better sound good, ’cause it’s ugly as sin in a kind of cool way.
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12 – 20 Greatest Guitar Solos Ever, With Videos
Does precisely what it says on the tin. My neck hurts from the awesomeness! m/
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13 – Stepping up the search for ET
Good article looking at both sides of the SETI argument (blind faith and hopeful science), including interview snippets. Via Centauri Dreams.
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14 – Karl Schroeder – The Virga Visualisations
“I’m using 3d software to visualize what the world of Virga might actually look like. So consider the following to be snapshots taken by an amateur photographer…” Someone needs to make an MMO of Virga, like, yesterday.
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15 – Wikiworld by Paul Di Fillipo
Free complete story from the new Pyr anthology, FastForward1, that I really want to get my hands on.
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16 – Joe Haldeman on The Craft of Science Fiction
“Hear Joe Haldeman speak about The Craft of Science Fiction in an MIT podcast…”
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This has to be the coolest thing I’ve seen for some time. A visualisation tool for world economic statistics correlating over time. It’s a lot more interesting than it sounds, trust me. Via Seed Magazine.
January 25th, 2007 at 3:00 am
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