from PhysOrg.com Colleges warn about networking sites Incoming college students are hearing the usual warnings this summer about the dangers of everything from alcohol to credit card debt. But many are also getting lectured on a new topic – the risks of Internet postings, particularly on popular social networking sites such as Facebook. From large […]
Read more "..Colleges warn about networking sites.."from New Scientist SPACE Can high-tech cavemen live on the Moon? Moon caves would make good homes for astronauts and should therefore be mapped out, a space scientist argues. The Moon appears to possess long, cave-like structures called lava tubes that are similar to ones on Earth. They form when the surface of a stream […]
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Read more "..Quantum leap.."kinda stating the obvious, but interesting to see this is now mainstream opinion
Read more "..Where is computing headed?.."Steward Brand gives an interesting review in Technology Review Vernor Vinge dedicates his new novel, Rainbows End, “To the Internet-based cognitive tools that are changing our lives — Wikipedia, Google, eBay, and the others of their kind, now and in the future.” The book is an imagining of how those technologies might develop over the […]
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Read more "2006 House of the Year"from BruceS Beyond the Beyond we learn about this extreme blogger as artist: Turbulence Commission: “My Beating Blog” by Yury Gitman with technical assistance from Benjamin Bacon “My Beating Blog” is an attempt to take the journaling aspect of blogging into a surrealistic future in which the author literally and metaphorically bares his heart. For […]
Read more "extreme bloggin’ as art"a critic in The New Yorker finds love for Radiohead.. includes details of new tracks they’re working on
Read more "..Reassessing Radiohead.."So in the interests of de-cluttering and such, we had a stall at Camberwell Market yesterday. ‘Cause who doesn’t want to get up at 5am on a cold, wintery Sunday morning. Well, the France v Brazil game was on, so I should have been up anyway. We actually sold lots of stuff and we’re looking […]
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