from ABC News Shanghai Bans Chinese Internet Slang Terms The language police in Shanghai, China’s largest city, plan to ban those and other Chinese Internet slang terms from classrooms, official documents, and publications produced in the city, newspapers reported Friday. “On the Web, Internet slang is convenient and satisfying, but the mainstream media have a […]
Read more "language nazis in china ban net slang"interesting.. (emphasis are mine) from CNET News.com Google builds an empire to rival Microsoft “A lot of people have talked about Google’s core ability to host thousands of applications and being your desktop in the sky,” he said. “They certainly never fail to take advantage of it when launching new products.” Google also has invested […]
Read more "more Google theories.."KurzweilAI.net The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil will be published by Viking Press on September 26, 2005. A web site focusing on the book, singularity.com, launched today, includes book excerpts, press coverage, author bio, and other resources. In this much-anticipated sequel to The Age of Spiritual Machines, Kurzweil presents the […]
Read more "Kurzweil's new Singularity book announced"So GoogleEarth’s been freeware long enough now for the implications of everyone been able to see everything, anywhere on earth. The military sure don’t seem to like it though.. esp South Korea, and in fact lots of places, but saying its threatens democracy seems a bit far-fetched. The flip-side though, is the new discoveries it […]
Read more "pros and cons of GoogleEarth.."from BBC NEWS Scientists probe anti-ageing gene Scientists in the United States have discovered a gene that can keep mice alive for 30% longer than normal. .. Because humans have a very similar version of the gene, the hope is that it will show a way to improve our declining years. .. The gene studied […]
Read more "UK boffins probe anti-ageing gene.."WSJ.com – Talk of the Internet Voice is back. But this time it’s on the Internet. Just when the rise of email and text-messaging began eroding traditional phoning, voice communication is staging an online comeback — in a variety of unlikely ways. Facilitated by broadband Internet connections, computer users are talking to each other as […]
Read more ".. Talk of the Internet.."Wired News: Shoplifting as Social Commentary Yomango calls on anti-consumerism activists to “liberate” goods from stores in an effort to spread the ideals of brand-free living. The movement started in 2002 in Spain, where thrifty followers staged choreographed shopping-mall stunts like looting clothes from one store and returning them to another or wearing them back […]
Read more "Yomango – Shoplifting as Social Commentary..?"Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Amazon.com starts selling exclusive digital “shorts” Amazon.com Inc. started selling new works of short literature and nonfiction on Friday from authors who write them exclusively for the Internet retailer. It’s not offering printed editions, just digital copies that can be e-mailed, downloaded or printed from a Web site for 49 cents a pop. […]
Read more "books keep changing.."Researchers creating life from scratch – Science – MSNBC.com They’re called “synthetic biologists” and they boldly claim the ability to make never-before-seen living things, one genetic molecule at a time. They’re mixing, matching and stacking DNA’s chemical components like microscopic Lego blocks in an effort to make biologically based computers, medicines and alternative energy sources. […]
Read more "rise of “synthetic biologists”"from Salt Lake Tribune – Nation and World An official monitor in the online role-playing game Second Life told BBC News in April that he knows of spouses of game players who have actually paid money to online-game detectives to learn whether their mates are committing ”virtual adultery” with other players’ characters in the course […]
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The Committee to Nuke Elysium 