From the Guardian
If we are ever contacted by aliens, the man I'm having lunch with will be one of the first humans to know. His name is Paul Davies and he's chair of the Seti
(Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Post-Detection Task Group.
They're a group of the world's most eminent scientists and will be,
come the big day, the planet's alien welcome committee. His is an
awesome responsibility, and one he doesn't take lightly.
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Saturday, March 13
Story of the week
by
ed
on Sat 13 Mar 2010 06:00 AM GMT
Unedited, here it is...
Appeals court gives new life to local 'zombie' suitThe U.S. Court of Appeals on Wednesday released a ruling in favor of a group of zombies who say they were wrongfully arrested while protesting consumerism during the 2006 Aquatennial. Monday, March 8
Older article
by
ed
on Mon 08 Mar 2010 09:58 AM GMT
This is about Santa gifts. It's a bit worrying some of the pictures, so I posted it now as opposed to earlier in the year, so I can get the fortnight when the decorations aren't being put up.
Friday, March 5
From Slash Dot.
by
ed
on Fri 05 Mar 2010 09:55 AM GMT
santosh maharshi passes along an article on Edge by David Gelernter,
the man who (according to the introduction) predicted the Web and first
described cloud computing; he's also a Unabomber survivor. Gelernter
makes 35 predictions and assertions, some brilliant, some dubious. "6.
We know that the Internet creates 'information overload,' a problem
with two parts: increasing number of information sources and increasing
information flow per source. The first part is harder: it's more
difficult to understand five people speaking simultaneously than one
person talking fast — especially if you can tell the one person to stop
temporarily, or go back and repeat. Integrating multiple information
sources is crucial to solving information overload. Blogs and other
anthology-sites integrate information from many sources. But we won't
be able to solve the overload problem until each Internet user can
choose for himself what sources to integrate, and can add to this mix
the most important source of all: his own personal information — his
email and other messages, reminders and documents of all sorts. To
accomplish this, we merely need to turn the whole Cybersphere on its
side, so that time instead of space is the main axis. ... 14. The
structure called a cyberstream or lifestream is better suited to the
Internet than a conventional website because it shows
information-in-motion, a rushing flow of fresh information instead of a
stagnant pool."
Monday, March 1
Mozarts' watching
by
ed
on Mon 01 Mar 2010 10:00 AM GMT
Interesting and slightly unnerving article
In recent years Britain has become the Willy Wonka of social control, churning out increasingly creepy, bizarre, and fantastic methods for policing the populace. But our weaponization of classical music—where Mozart, Beethoven, and other greats have been turned into tools of state repression—marks a new low. More here. |
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