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Mefi: Confessions of a Book Pirate

emmineb — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:58:56 GMT

Confessions of a Book Pirate NY Times Arts Beat: Report Finds 9 Million Illegal Downloads of E-Books Attributor Blog: Online Book Piracy Costs U.S. Publishers Nearly $3 Billion posted by brundlefly (105 comments total) 13 users marked this as a favorite

MetaFilter: What did one ghost say to the other?

emmineb — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 10:04:57 GMT

Get A-Life - an interesting read on artificial life and evolutionary computation, from the game of life (playable applet), through core wars, tierra and on to genetic programming. This approach has recently borne fruit to genetic programming pioneer and inventor of the scratchcard, John Koza, who last year patented his invention machine, actually a 1000 machine beowulf cluster running his software, which has itself created several inventions which have been granted patents. [See also: BBC Biotopia artificial life experiment, another odd BBC evolution game, Artificial Life Possibilities: A Star Trek Perspective]

PERMANENT Asteroid mining, space colonies, commercialization

emmineb — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:49:43 GMT

P rojects to E mploy R esources of the M oon and A steroids N ear E arth in the N ear T erm G o a l s We mean business!Don't expensively launch from Earth, use construction materials already in space.Build valuable, profitable products and habitats in orbit (not send back to Earth).Non-governmental, commercial, faster, cheaper large scale space development. O r g a n i z a t i o n PERMANENT is an introductory guide for all, a reference source for experts and a news site on space resources. We link to known, quality websites, stockpile technical resources of third parties not on the web, and help them publish on the web.

Platform Wars: TCP/IP vs. the Dollar

emmineb — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:49:15 GMT

Donna Bogatin : � Social Web or Business Web: where is the money? Naturally, people are fascinated by this question of "where's the money?" But it's the wrong question. The more interesting one is "why the money"? And it's still gonna take us a long time to get our heads around that. But that's what we're all gonna be asking at some point. The more effective the internet and the web are at helping us communicate and co-ordinate, the less money will be involved. Because ultimately the economy is a communication network and money is its protocol The network is not the means to the end of money.

Primidi

emmineb — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 12:20:21 GMT

Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends How new technologies are modifying our way of life

ReliefWeb

emmineb — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 08:22:40 GMT

ReliefWeb is the world’s leading on-line gateway to information (documents and maps) on humanitarian emergencies and disasters. An independent vehicle of information, designed specifically to assist the international humanitarian community in effective delivery of emergency assistance, it provides timely, reliable and relevant information as events unfold, while emphasizing the coverage of "forgotten emergencies" at the same time.

Sentient Developments: Astrosociobiology article on Wikipedia deleted

emmineb — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 06:45:31 GMT

Astrosociobiology Astrosociobiology (also referred to as exosociobiology, extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI), and xenosociology) is the speculative scientific study of extraterrestrial civilizations and their possible social characteristics and developmental tendencies. The field involves the convergence of astrobiology, sociobiology and evolutionary biology. Hypothesized comparisons between human civilizations and those of extraterrestrials are frequently posited, placing the human situation in the same context as other extraterrestrial intelligences. Whenever possible, astrosociobiologists describe only those social characteristics that are thought to be common (or highly probable) to all civilizations. Since no extraterrestrial civilizations have ever b

The Development of Life on Earth and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

emmineb — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 07:37:18 GMT

# Introduction # The world in a grain of sand or through the dish of a radiotelescope? # Anaximander and Epicurus: the boundless universe and plurality of worlds # Extraterrestrials?: Lucretius, Bruno, Fontenelle, Huygens and Voltaire # Science Fiction: H.G. Wells and other modern writers # The nature and origin of life on earth # The elements of life # Minor and trace elements # Molecules, monomers and polymers # The ability to reproduce: DNA and the genetic code

The New York Review of Books: Shipping News

emmineb — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 21:32:14 GMT

Nobody knows exactly how many containers there are in the world, but estimates run as high as three hundred million. What we do know is that not so long ago, there were none. Shipping containers are a recent American invention. On the face of it not a world-shaking event, yet it could be called the beginning of a revolution in transportation.

The Playboy Interview: Marshall McLuhan

emmineb — Thu, 24 May 2007 11:03:07 GMT

In 1961, the name of Marshall McLuhan was unknown to everyone but his English students at the University of Toronto--and a coterie of academic admirers who followed his abstruse articles in small-circulation quarterlies. But then came two remarkable books-- "The Gutenberg Galaxy" (1962) and "Understanding Media" (1964)--and the graying professor from Canada's western hinterlands soon found himself characterized by the San Francisco Chronicle as "the hottest academic property around." He has since won a world-wide following for his brilliant--and frequently baffling--theories about the impact of the media on man; and his name has entered the French language as mucluhanisme, a synonym for the world of pop culture.