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  • Google Answers

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    Google Answers – pay to have a question answered. As I commented in Metafilter, “I predict that within but a few months, the vast majority of Google Researchers will be high school students or people from countries where the average level of pay is much lower than the western world’s…” (read more of my comment)

  • Brad DeLong

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    Just as I’m in the process of writing a new article for Massive on degrees of freedom within games, Brad DeLong goes and posts this site’s URL to the Culture list which currently only has an intro article. Oh well. The new article is proving to be particularly interesting to think about though, dealing with…

  • Precrime

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    Precrime – Starting point for a new AI-type mmoe game for the movie Minority Report?

  • Mars shooting

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    Shooting down a spacecraft from Mars – ‘Now, I don’t think that anyone, US included, has the capability to shoot down a spacecraft. But let’s imagine they do, they go and try to shoot down a human spacecraft returning from Mars…’

  • The Years of Rice and Salt

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    Finished The Years of Rice and Salt. As usual, it’s up to Kim Stanley Robinson’s high standards. I’m not going to review the book here, as Salon has already got an excellent review. What I want to do is to talk about my impressions of the book. Firstly, it’s not for everyone, and it is…

  • Rice and Salt

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    No updates today – still reading The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson. It’s one of those books that catches you off your guard every so often with a wonderful phrase that makes you beam in complete delight, with characters that you can really understand. I was having a conversation with my…

  • 24

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    Went to the nearby college TV room to get my weekly fix of 24. Got there five minutes early, so I could hijack the remote control if anyone wanted to watch something else, but there were already three other people there watching the golf before 24. As 24 started, yet more people trickled in. This…

  • Ironing

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    Extreme Ironing – ‘the latest danger sport that combines the thrills of an extreme outdoor activity with the satisfaction of a well pressed shirt.’

  • Libertarian Thought Experiments

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    Libertarian Thought Experiments – highly amusing stuff.

  • X-Files xmas

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    An X-Files Christmas – silly humour.