Friday Free Fiction for 21st November
20 hours ago
Here's a suggestion: don't read the news. It'll only make you miserable, and there's no point wasting emotional energy worrying about stuff that's way beyond your control. So why not read some f .......
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Futurismic
Keywords: fiction stories free
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20 hours ago
Here's a suggestion: don't read the news. It'll only make you miserable, and there's no point wasting emotional energy worrying about stuff that's way beyond your control. So why not read some f .......
3 images 48 links 55.2 Readability
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Futurismic Keywords: fiction stories free
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American Centipede Threat, you're wanted on Verizon Line One
21 hours ago
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/ (((What did they hope they would find there? Three big guesses: Monica Lewinsky; two Monica Lewinskies; three Monica Lewinskies in six kneepads and three thongs. Ho .......
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Beyond the Beyond
Keywords: obama employees verizon records wireless
21 hours ago
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/ (((What did they hope they would find there? Three big guesses: Monica Lewinsky; two Monica Lewinskies; three Monica Lewinskies in six kneepads and three thongs. Ho .......
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This Guy Resents Participatory Web Culture
22 hours ago
(((You know, it really isn't this easy... it may take me an entire book to attempt to explain why...))) http://gizmodo.com/5083371/a-call-for-revolution-against-beta-culture Link: Bad Technolo .......
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Beyond the Beyond
Keywords: hardware products example year later
22 hours ago
(((You know, it really isn't this easy... it may take me an entire book to attempt to explain why...))) http://gizmodo.com/5083371/a-call-for-revolution-against-beta-culture Link: Bad Technolo .......
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Beyond the Beyond Keywords: hardware products example year later
The Gods of Computational Aesthetics
22 hours ago
*Man, that is some lecture line-up. What the hell, that makes the hair stand up all over my head. *You'd surely have to be one of the coolest mofos in the world just to REALIZE that these charac .......
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Beyond the Beyond
Keywords: 6:00 arts 2009.
22 hours ago
*Man, that is some lecture line-up. What the hell, that makes the hair stand up all over my head. *You'd surely have to be one of the coolest mofos in the world just to REALIZE that these charac .......
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And now for some refreshing Revolutionary Anarcho-Leftism
1 day ago
*Guys who think BHO is some kinda Marxist need to cozy up to this screed. Rhetoric like this used to be common. Very common. EXTREMELY common. Last time guys were standing around in soup lines, you .......
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Beyond the Beyond
Keywords: movement global capitalism communism makes
1 day ago
*Guys who think BHO is some kinda Marxist need to cozy up to this screed. Rhetoric like this used to be common. Very common. EXTREMELY common. Last time guys were standing around in soup lines, you .......
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Beyond the Beyond Keywords: movement global capitalism communism makes
Traffic Light Hackers
1 day ago
*Man, that's pretty severe. I get it about labor solidarity, but gee whiz, fellas. What if there are labor union members in those cars? Cars aren't Lego blocks, they're like two-ton whizzing body-c .......
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Beyond the Beyond
Keywords: traffic computer city guilty plead
1 day ago
*Man, that's pretty severe. I get it about labor solidarity, but gee whiz, fellas. What if there are labor union members in those cars? Cars aren't Lego blocks, they're like two-ton whizzing body-c .......
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Sounds like Hugo Chavez has centipede trouble.
1 day ago
*I lack the time to delve into this situation, but it sure sounds delvable. *From the FOREIGN POLICY blog. Ex-wife's mayoral campaign embarrasses Chavez (((Cherchez la femme, then Follow the .......
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Beyond the Beyond
Keywords: rodriguez president policy former
1 day ago
*I lack the time to delve into this situation, but it sure sounds delvable. *From the FOREIGN POLICY blog. Ex-wife's mayoral campaign embarrasses Chavez (((Cherchez la femme, then Follow the .......
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Matter is actually just fluctuations in the quantum vacuum
1 day ago
Another classic case of the headline saying it all: physicists have confirmed that matter is no more than fluctuations in the quantum vacuum. Everything is arguably illusory, including ourselves. A .......
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Futurismic
Keywords: artist science
Filed under: Blog art concept existence matter nuclear waste physics quantum theory
1 day ago
Another classic case of the headline saying it all: physicists have confirmed that matter is no more than fluctuations in the quantum vacuum. Everything is arguably illusory, including ourselves. A .......
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Filed under: Blog art concept existence matter nuclear waste physics quantum theory
Happy birthday, ISS!
1 day ago
Break out the cake and light the candles, the International Space Station is 10 years old today (November 20). (Via Phys.org.) The Russians launched the first part of the station from Kazakhst .......
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Futurismic
Keywords: space birthday happy station
Filed under: Blog International Space Station space space stations
1 day ago
Break out the cake and light the candles, the International Space Station is 10 years old today (November 20). (Via Phys.org.) The Russians launched the first part of the station from Kazakhst .......
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Buran space shuttle
1 day ago
An interesting article on the Russian "Buran" space shuttle created in the last years of the Soviet Union: On November 15, 1988, as snowy clouds and winds were swirling around Baikonur Cosmodro .......
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Futurismic
Keywords: shuttle space buran
Filed under: Blog aerospace russian space program
1 day ago
An interesting article on the Russian "Buran" space shuttle created in the last years of the Soviet Union: On November 15, 1988, as snowy clouds and winds were swirling around Baikonur Cosmodro .......
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Marijuana is teh good, episode 3
1 day ago
Research suggests drugs similar to THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, may help reduce memory impairment due to Alzheimer's, from Physorg: The research suggests that the development of a l .......
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Futurismic
Keywords: memory thc drugs alcohol
Filed under: Blog cannabis prohibition
1 day ago
Research suggests drugs similar to THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, may help reduce memory impairment due to Alzheimer's, from Physorg: The research suggests that the development of a l .......
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Futurismic Keywords: memory thc drugs alcohol
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Mammoth progress
1 day ago
Scientists have successfully sequenced a reasonably complete genome from an extinct animal for the first time, in this case, a woolly mammoth: The team sequenced the mammoth's nuclear genome us .......
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Futurismic
Keywords: hairs dna mammoth post ancient
Filed under: Blog
1 day ago
Scientists have successfully sequenced a reasonably complete genome from an extinct animal for the first time, in this case, a woolly mammoth: The team sequenced the mammoth's nuclear genome us .......
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Futurismic Keywords: hairs dna mammoth post ancient
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L'Internet des objets
1 day ago
http://www.lemonde.fr/technologies/article/2008/11/19/ces-appareils-qui-communiquent_1120361_651865.html#ens_id=1120369 Link: Ces appareils qui communiquent - Technologies - Le Monde.fr. Objets .......
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Beyond the Beyond
Keywords: objets qui
Filed under: Spime Watch
1 day ago
http://www.lemonde.fr/technologies/article/2008/11/19/ces-appareils-qui-communiquent_1120361_651865.html#ens_id=1120369 Link: Ces appareils qui communiquent - Technologies - Le Monde.fr. Objets .......
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Dead Media Beat: Lively goes deadly
2 days ago
(((Somehow this chimes with Jamais Cascio's much-repeated assertion that futurists should never talk about Second Life again.))) http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/19/google-kills-lively/ Link: .......
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Beyond the Beyond
Keywords: lively google
2 days ago
(((Somehow this chimes with Jamais Cascio's much-repeated assertion that futurists should never talk about Second Life again.))) http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/19/google-kills-lively/ Link: .......
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The Wind Cries Cloud Computing
2 days ago
*When the cloud owns the music business. And how long does the cloud last? Ten years, maybe? Should I be generous -- fifteen? *It seems the point is to get aging hippies to buy their music all o .......
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Beyond the Beyond
Keywords: cloud buy music
2 days ago
*When the cloud owns the music business. And how long does the cloud last? Ten years, maybe? Should I be generous -- fifteen? *It seems the point is to get aging hippies to buy their music all o .......
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Happy Birthday
2 days ago
Yesterday, The Open Rights Group turned three. I'd like to wish a happy birthday and much success over the next year to this campaigning civil rights group, of which I am (needless to say) a membe .......
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Charlie's Diary
Keywords: rights technologies group open support
2 days ago
Yesterday, The Open Rights Group turned three. I'd like to wish a happy birthday and much success over the next year to this campaigning civil rights group, of which I am (needless to say) a membe .......
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The Live Piracy Map
2 days ago
The ICC's Live Piracy Map does exactly what its name suggests - it collates reports of modern piracy (the ocean-going sort, not kids using peer-to-peer networks), and plots them out as a Google Map .......
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Futurismic
Keywords: map piracy
Filed under: Blog cartography data geography visualisation
2 days ago
The ICC's Live Piracy Map does exactly what its name suggests - it collates reports of modern piracy (the ocean-going sort, not kids using peer-to-peer networks), and plots them out as a Google Map .......
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Direct evidence of dark matter detected over Antarctica?
2 days ago
A high-altitude balloon experiment above the Antarctic may have just seen a possible signature of the mysterious “dark matter" thought to make up 85 percent of the mass of the universe-but a .......
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Futurismic
Keywords: particles electrons matter
Filed under: Blog astrophysics dark matter
2 days ago
A high-altitude balloon experiment above the Antarctic may have just seen a possible signature of the mysterious “dark matter" thought to make up 85 percent of the mass of the universe-but a .......
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Futurismic Keywords: particles electrons matter
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The Internet will go interplanetary
2 days ago
NASA finished first tests on a system that could one day be used to automatically relay information between Earth, spacecraft, and astronauts, without the need for humans to schedule transmissio .......
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Futurismic
Keywords: mars space
Filed under: Blog International Space Station Mars satellite space
2 days ago
NASA finished first tests on a system that could one day be used to automatically relay information between Earth, spacecraft, and astronauts, without the need for humans to schedule transmissio .......
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Futurismic Keywords: mars space
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Stress physically reshapes the brain
2 days ago
A neuroscience conference in Washington, D.C. this week could stress you out all by itself. Lab rats put in stressful situations — like being immobilized and forced to listen to loud rock musi .......
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Futurismic
Keywords: stress brain changes neurons
Filed under: Blog brain neuroscience
2 days ago
A neuroscience conference in Washington, D.C. this week could stress you out all by itself. Lab rats put in stressful situations — like being immobilized and forced to listen to loud rock musi .......
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Futurismic Keywords: stress brain changes neurons
Filed under: Blog brain neuroscience