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A Politician Who Gets It
For those unfamiliar with it, Second Life is an online community rather reminiscent of the virtual world in Stephenson’s Snow Crash. Yesterday former governor of Virginia and undeclared presidential condidate Mark Warner made a whistle stop speech in avatar form there. I’m impressed with this, because it’s the first example I’ve seen of a pol…
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Drooooooool…
This is what Chip wants for her birthday: A very, very big computer monitor: 110″ to 200″ screen sizes, resolutions up to 19,200 x 2,400 pixels, ultra-widescreen format, bluetooth connectivity, optional touch-screen capability, and more! Link (via Neatorama)
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A Short History of Hacking
Neatorama has an interesting look at the history of hacking: Fiddling with modern technology used to mean prank calling the Pope. (Hey, Steve Jobs did it, and now he’s the CEO of Apple!) But these days, it can mean hacking your way into some serious prison time, jeopardizing national security, or worse. So when exactly…
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DRM-Free Science Fiction eBooks
One intrepid blogger has started a list of sites which offer truly free (as opposed to DRM-crippled) science fiction ebooks. Got more good SF ebook sites? Add them to the comment section of the post. Link (via BoingBoing)
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You Are in a Maze of Twisty Little Passages, All Alike
Inform is a program that helps you write “interactive fiction,” a la Zork. (For you whippersnappers who’ve never heard of Zork, here’s the Wikipedia entry about it. Kids today, with your fancy-schmancy graphics and your abundance of CPU cycles. In my day, all we had were a brass lantern and an Elvish sword, and we…