Tinmith augmented reality project, money and problems in SL, Big Brother is listening to you, China Mieville interview…

• 1 – Tinmith Augmented Reality Project – Wearable Computer Lab
  “Augmented reality (AR) is the registration of projected computer-generated images over a user’s view of the physical world.” Okay, now try scoffing at the idea of wearable computers. Via OKfuture.
  (tags: technology simulation VR interface graphics cyberpunk cyborg computing wearable 3D reality augmented AR)
• 2 – College student creates paper-based storage system (no, not that kind)
  “The trick is to first convert the data into a so-called “Rainbow Format,” which is made up of various geometric shapes that can be densely printed onto a sheet of paper…” Er, OK.
  (tags: encoding colours shapes printing Format Rainbow system storage data paper)
• 3 – Unwrapping the ‘One Laptop Per Child’ Machine
  “We’ve published several sneak peeks at earlier models, but now you can see the real thing. Last week, the first of the new machines arrived at the OLPC offices.”
  (tags: pictures unboxing technology child nations developing computer laptop OLPC)
• 4 – Please Fix SL
  “PLEASE FIX SL is the message floating in air over Yongnam and Walden sims at 299 meters – the highest altitude where objects will appear on the Second Life metaverse world map.”
  (tags: public protest discontent builders residents problems bugs reality virtual world synthetic Life Second)
• 5 – It’s Official — Anshe Chung is a Millionaire!
  “…she has accumulated the equivalent of over 1 million US$ in assets in Second Life. The bulk of these assets are in Anshe’s virtual real estate holdings, which now include 550 simulators supporting the equivalent of 36 square kilometers of land.”
  (tags: millionaire Chung Anse business economy reality virtual world synthetic Life Second)
• 6 – Earth Killing Asteroids Being Tracked By China
  “Earth is a unique world in our solar system, and it is good to see another space power lending her efforts in defending our fragile paradise.”
  (tags: planetkillers asteroids China telescope Schmidt tracking Object Earth Near NEO space)
• 7 – How To Bypass The Zune’s WiFi Sharing DRM
  Now that didn’t take them long, did it? Everything can and will be hacked.
  (tags: hack workaround bypass DRM sharing song transfer file wifi Zune Microsoft)
• 8 – ‘Big Brother’ cameras listen for fights
  “In U.K. public places, smarter CCTV cameras have been given the ability to listen for disturbances and also keep an eye on citizens.” This is getting ridiculous. I’m moving to Eastern Europe.
  (tags: Brother Big detection audio society security privacy cameras surveillance CCTV UK)
• 9 – Neal Asher on Peter Watts
  “I’ve read all four books now and though I don’t think the last three are as good as Blindsight (which I have to say is the best SF book I have read in years), I definitely put them in a league ahead of most stuff out there.”
  (tags: plaudits literature genre sf scifi writer author fiction science Watts Peter)
• 10 – China Miéville interview excerpts
  “One of the things I like about artistic movements is that any act of artistic labeling is as much to do with reclamation as with categorization [...] It is as much argumentative archaeology as it is ongoing taxonomy.”
  (tags: Weird New fiction genre fantasy Locus interview writer author Bas-Lag Mieville China)
• 11 – Ranking democracies
  “…the US ranks fairly badly as a democracy itself, coming in 17th worldwide. [...] The other major partner in the “war on terror”, the UK, is ranked 23rd.”
  (tags: UK US list table league ranking democracy)