The Long Tail and publishing, email filtering tips, wearable quantum computers…

• 1 – Backlist to the Future
  The New York Times talks about the Long Tail as applied to book publishing. Food for thought. Link via DeepGenre.
  (tags: markets niche business economics marketing tail long backlist sales publishing books)
• 2 – Give Your PC A Port Hole
  Case-modding 101: putting a plexiglass window in your box.
  (tags: howto window plexiglass computer technology geek modding mod case PC)
• 3 – What to do if an alien shows up in your living room
  Robert J. Sawyer gives a common-sense lowdown on how to react in that most unlikely of scenarios.
  (tags: advice communication being extraterrestrial meeting alien)
• 4 – Beyond Oil
  Technology Review has a nice round-up of stuff about global warming, climate change, and the technologies we already have to ameliorate the problems. Link via Bruce Sterling.
  (tags: ecology futurism technology warming global change climate renewable environment energy)
• 5 – BRAIN DEAD
  William Gibson highlights an interview with Dubya that seems to indicate he’s either been asleep for the last six years, or has some serious issues regarding his ability to comprehend reality. The astonishing level of hypocrisy beggars belief.
  (tags: idiocy ideology policy foreign US freedom terrorism Israel Palestine war Bush George)
• 6 – Memory, and the uses and responsibilities thereof
  Novelist Alma Alexander asks us to remember war, so that we will treasure peace.
  (tags: responsibilty abominations damage collateral conflict warfare atrocity memory peace war)
• 7 – Essential email filters
  Wash that spam right out of your hair with these tips and tricks to using the filter functions in your email client.
  (tags: guide tips howto hacks spam productivity filters email lifehacks)
• 8 – Space Weapons
  Designing yourself a space ship? Better kit it out with some practical weaponry, then – this page discusses some of the potential tools of combat for the budding space pirate. Link via Metafilter.
  (tags: warfare weapons combat physics sf scifi fiction science space)
• 9 – HardSF.net interviews Alistair Reynolds
  Does what it says on the tin.
  (tags: literature writing books scifi SF fiction science Reynolds Alastair interview)
• 10 – HardSF.net interviews Charlie Stross
  Also does what it says on the tin.
  (tags: literature writing books scifi SF fiction science Stross Charles interview)
• 11 – The State of Science Fiction
  Lou Anders gives a ’state of the genre’ address…
  (tags: television cinema quality writing books literature SF scifi fiction science state Anders Lou)
• 12 – The State of Science Fiction, Part II
  …and there’s more.
  (tags: television cinema quality writing books literature SF scifi fiction science state Anders Lou)
• 13 – The future of computing: Quantum leap
  Great futurist article on CNN by one Stuart Wolf, depicting a near-future where your computer lives in a headband, and you see your data in your normal field of vision, thanks to quantum computers. Go read.
  (tags: hats futurism connection computer system data personal ubicomp everyware qubits quantum computing wearables)
• 14 – MIT researchers watch brain in action
  It’s amazing what you can do with lab mice, special microscopes and a bit of jellyfish DNA, you know.
  (tags: expression protein function neural microscopy imaging mice research science brain neurology)