Links for 31-07-2007
Space policy politics, ceramic quantum computing, the Long Tail and Second Life, LOLtheorists (oh, yes!), music hackery …
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1 – Top NASA manager opposes Moon goal
“One of the most respected top managers of the Apollo program [...] is airing sharp opposition to the Bush Administration/NASA goal of returning humans to the Moon as a stepping stone to Mars.”
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2 – Can’t all space nerds get along?
“Observers of space politics have identified three interest groups in the civil space sector: government-funded scientific robots/machines, government-funded human spaceflight, and private space industry.”
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3 – Scientists take first step in ceramic-based, quantum computers
“By heating or doping the material with a variety of impurities, scientists from the London Center for Nanotechnology have found a way to propagate magnetic excitations over long chains of atoms in the otherwise magnetically disordered material.”
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4 – Guerrilla [blog] Marketing Techniques that Anyone Can Do
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5 – Top 10 [UK] dotcoms to watch
“The boom is back. In Britain, the internet doldrums took a long time to disappear – but in recent years the startup buzz is back in the air and fresh ideas are starting to blossom.”
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6 – WIRED AND THE LONG TAIL OF SECOND LIFE MARKETING
“… SL developers have yet to create an unambiguously compelling and unique example of real world advertising that is massive or effective enough to convince honest skeptics.”
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7 – Humanitarians Do Not Like Slackers Either
“… people who have stronger humanitarian impulses are just as reluctant to donate to the lazy poor as are those who score lower on humanitarianism.” Intriguing. There’s a story in there somewhere.
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8 – LOLTHEORISTS
Because LOLcats are sooo last season … the intellectual web habitué will enjoy LOLtheorists, which does exactly what you might expect it to.
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11 – Album review: The Colombos – Thousand Ways To Look Clever
