Links for 27-03-2007
Shoulder-mounted cyberinterface, Ray Bradbury interviewed, fortified food to prevent ageing…
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1 – The Daily Cabal – daily short-short fiction website
Does what it says on the tin. Linked via (and designed by) Jeremiah Tolbert.
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2 – You Ain’t Heard Nothing Yet: Novelists and the new age of talkies
“…writers who are unskilled in the ways of the Internet [...] will be like movie actors at the end of the silent era who were forced to acquire new skills when talking pictures were suddenly the brand new thing.”
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3 – Ray Bradbury interviewed by SCI FI Weekly
“I’ve only written one science-fiction book; that is Fahrenheit 451. All the others are fantasies and horror.” There’s one for the definitionists to debate.
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4 – Say Yes2 Another Tether Launch – This Time a 30 KM Long Tether
“Not only will this be the longest artificial structure ever deployed in space, but it will also be the first time that a tether has been used to return a payload from space.” Excellent stuff.
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5 – Research suggests fortified food could help resist ageing
“Fortifying food with specially developed proteins could make our bodies more resistant to the ageing process, according to a former Oxford University scientist.” Mmm, deuterium burgers.
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6 – Shoulder-worn camera acts as a third eye
“A shoulder-mounted camera system that automatically tracks head movements and can recognise hand gestures has been developed by UK researchers.” I want one of these, like, right now.
