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Tag: Science & Technology
Koreaaaaaaaaaaaaans in Spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace!
The Digital Chosunilbo has a piece up: Space exploration appears to be a field of great interest among Koreans. As evidence of this, on Friday alone more than 600 people expressed hope of becoming the country’s first astronaut. According to officials at Seoul’s Science and Technology Ministry and the Korea Aerospace Research Institute, the number of potential candidates for the job reached over 200 just two hours after online applications became available at 9 a.m. on Friday. The screening process has four stages through which two finalists will be selected by the year’s end. After a rigorous 15-month training program …
Spiders and Marking and a Maddening Cabbie
This is a general update of blather. The other night I had a horrifying dream that I was in a hot apartment, and sleeping, and awoke to see a huge — I’d say four-foot legspan, tip-to-tip — spider descending on a thick line from the ceiling. No possible way it could have gotten into this room that I was dreaming, but I yelped in horror and it ascended and escaped. Then, in dream-time, what felt like about twenty minutes later, another spider descended. This one was furry and striped black and white, and I tried to kill it with a …
Seeds of Change
Seeds of Change is a documentary about Monsanto and other biotech monsters and their influence on the world. Made in Manitoba, Paypal if you like it. (via How to Save the World)
Do Hiveminds Dream Of Folksonomic Tags?
Here’s a very cool post at Emptybottle.org about folksonomic tags, VR, and more. Very cool linkage to games I’ve never heard of but feel more interested in than most games I’ve seen so far.
Repeat after me:
P2P is not hurting the music industry. P2P is not hurting the music industry. P2P is not hurting the music industry. Got it? Here’s yet another study that demonstrates it. (via Sivacracy)
Darwin Poem
At Poetry there’s a poem up about Darwin. Not too shabby, really. (via Pharyngula)
SFFS International Remix Redirect
Kinda neat, but not running on my Ubuntu installation — been having issues with Flash lately. I’ll try it on my Winbox later. You won’t win a prize for your online mashup, but they will show it at the Festival. via Yahoo Searchblog.
Wooden Laptop From Italy
When I am old and crotchety, one of these will sit on my desk. But probably not till then.
The Weird World of Coming Entertainment
Japundit on smell-o-vision being introduced to Japanese cinemas. Let’s hope a few cinemas remain free of this for those of us with respiratory problems, like me. And Marginal Revolution on two new trends: Want to play video games against your pet? And how will online availability change TV?