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    MetaFilter has just become energised about a new project: MetaFilter Online Journalism (aka MoJo). You can see the origin of this idea in this thread. It is basically being put forward as some kind of website in which members of the public will be able to perform collaborative and investigative journalism, something which has been…

  • Collective Play

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    Collective Play – Justin Hall’s notes on a recent conference at UC Berkeley on ‘collective gaming’ (read as: massively multiplayer online games of the AI/Majestic ilk). Interesting to see that the academic world is thinking about this sort of thing, and it appears that Sean Stewart (author for the AI game) was a speaker there.

  • GDC2003

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    Game Developers Conference 2003 Coverage – Adrenaline Vault’s providing a nice ongoing summary of the highlights of this year’s GDC. Avault generally does these types of things well – they have a high quality of writing that feels much more personal.

  • All gone

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    Coming Attractions has just been ruined by Cinescape – they say that ‘nothing will change’, but have a look at their new home and try and extract any kind of news from that page.

  • The Great Library

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    If and when I ever leave the world of academia, I will be very sorry. Not because of the usual reasons, but because I will no longer have free access to thousands of academic journals on the Internet. It’s simply a wonder to be able to go over to Pubmed, type in any keyword, and…

  • N. S.

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    Browsing through my website logs and stats, as I am wont to do when there is nothing else going on, I’ve just discovered that the most searched-for term for my website is “Neal Stephenson”; other such irrelevent terms as “Adrian Hon” come in a distant fifth. Of course, this is because Neal Stephenson is a…

  • Suggestible

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    It’s amazing how suggestible the human mind is. Well, not quite amazing, but still impressive. I’ve just been over at a friend’s who’s a fan of psychological magic tricks, and he managed to successfully predict two different cards chosen by myself and another person. When I say ‘predict’, of course what really happened was that…

  • Freedom Evolves

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    Just finished reading Freedom Evolves by Daniel Dennett. It took me only four days to accomplish this, which is a great improvement from previous philosophy books that took me several weeks to finish (or I never ended up finishing them). This presents several possibilites, which I’ve listed in increasing order of likelihood: 1) My IQ…

  • Geeks With Books

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    Geeks With Books – a nice little article about what it’s like to work in a used SF bookstore. “I never count on having Philip K. Dick books. They tend to stay around for about twenty minutes. When I shelve his books, I worry about losing a finger since they sell so fast.”

  • Webcams for schools

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    Putting webcams in classrooms to catch problem pupils – seems like a great idea to me, you wouldn’t believe the number of parents who think their kids can do no wrong. As for privacy concerns, I think maybe some kind of key escrow agency might be a good idea, wherein (say) at least two out…