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1 comment on First postOur first entry for First Words is in, from David Brin! True, I know him probably the most out of everyone I’ve contacted, but small steps and all that, eh?
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Soda Straw Tensegrity Structures
My next shopping list: 15 straws, 60 paper clips and 30 rubber bands. After all, who wouldn’t want to make a tensegrity dodecahedron?
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Real or not?
Is this photo of the Capitol Building in DC real, or computer altered/generated? (those of you who know already aren’t allowed to say).
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First Words
So here I am, emailing every single famous and semi-famous and should-be-famous person I know or have ever come into contact with* (or even less) about First Words, and also getting ready to send forth a huge wave of actual, physical letters. So far, the response has been of deafening silence. Not really a surprise,…
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Email
It used to be that I’d reply to all personal email as soon as it arrived. Those days, alas, have been gone for some time now. While I do receive more personal emails, response time has not increased proportionally – more likely it’s increased logarithmically. I’m not entirely sure why this is so. It’s not…
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Braille drive-through
Braille instructions on a drive-through ATM? Only in America (scroll down).
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Turok Scam
Stephen Fulljames wrote to the Culture about a terrible scam being perpetrated by Acclaim (a computer games company). Basically, Acclaim ran a marketing promotion for their new game Turok Evolution, where volunteers would receive £500 and a free X-Box if they changed their name by deed poll to ‘Turok’. The winners have been announced, and…
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Fast Times at Fairmont High
Ack! Vernor Vinge has done it again! His Hugo award-winning novella Fast Times at Fairmont High is not merely an excellent story (what else would you expect from the Vingester?) but it throws out some wonderful ideas about the future of entertainment and the singularity. The quality of SF writing has increased drastically recently, in…
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Nutcracker Lemmings
It just occurred to me that there must be an entire generation of kids (they’re probably adults now) who only know Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite, and other classical works, by their use on Lemmings. There don’t seem to be that many games using classical music these days, although I have to admit that I probably wouldn’t…
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iainbanks.net
Iain Banks has a shiny new website completely devoid of content, apart from an extract from Dead Air (it’s not bad). Oh, and the covers of his non-SF novels have been updated and become quite respectable now.
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