Links for 25-01-2008
Copywriting tips; rock on Mars “not a female statue after all” shocker; the politics of search; cheap ethanol starttup…
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1 – The 5-Step POWER Copywriting Method
“This represents years of copywriting experience boiled down to the basics. I won’t promise that this will help you create a masterpiece of copywriting brilliance. But it can help guide you toward better and more effective sales writing.”
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2 – Female Figure on Mars Just a Rock (O RLY?)
“Several Internet sites have glommed onto the image and suggested the figure could be alive.” I’m ashamed to share the same number of chromosomes with these people. *facepalm*
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3 – Higgs Hiding in Plain Sight?
“… evidence of the Higgs boson–or at least a Higgs boson–may already be lying unnoticed in data from previous experiments, new calculations suggest.” The old “right under your nose” gag, eh?
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4 – Access Your Computer Anytime and Save Energy with Wake-on-LAN
“… how to enable Wake-on-LAN on your computer, starting with enabling the feature in the BIOS and finishing by choosing the correct system settings.” My next machine must have this feature.
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5 – Killer Space Rock Theory Is Soaking Wet
“… images yet of the mostly submerged Chicxulub impact crater [reveals] that the asteroid landed in deeper water than previously assumed and therefore released about 6.5 times more water vapor into the atmosphere.”
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6 – You say you’ve never considered the politics of search engines? – Finklestein
“Searching the web is harder than it looks and more political than it seems. Those are some of the lessons being learned from the alpha launch of Wikia Search), a so-called social search engine.”
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7 – Startup Says It Can Make Ethanol for $1 a Gallon, and Without Corn
“Gasification and bacterial conversion are common methods of producing ethanol, but biofuel experts said Coskata is the first to combine them. Doing so, they said, merges the feedstock flexibility of gasification with the relatively low cost of bacterial
