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SPACEWAR – by Stewart Brand – Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Posted: 15 Oct 2009 07:55 AM PDT kottke.org writes: “Spacewar was one of the first video games and in 1972, Rolling Stone sent a 33-yo Stewart Brand to document the early days of computing as entertainment. The photographs were taken by a 23-yo Annie Leibovitz.”
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‘Magnetic electricity’ discovered [BBC News] Posted: 15 Oct 2009 04:33 AM PDT “Researchers have discovered a magnetic equivalent to electricity: single magnetic charges that can behave and interact like electrical ones.”
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25 Free Online Tools for Web Designers, Developers, Freelancers and Individuals Posted: 15 Oct 2009 04:26 AM PDT |
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Essay – The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate – NYTimes.com Posted: 15 Oct 2009 04:06 AM PDT “Interesting” theory ;-): “I’m talking about the notion that the troubled collider is being sabotaged by its own future. A pair of otherwise distinguished physicists have suggested that the hypothesized Higgs boson, which physicists hope to produce with the collider, might be so abhorrent to nature that its creation would ripple backward through time and stop the collider before it could make one, like a time traveler who goes back in time to kill his grandfather.”
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Hybrid Cars May Include Fake Vroom for Safety [NYTimes.com] Posted: 15 Oct 2009 04:04 AM PDT “’One possibility is choosing your own noise,’ said Nathalie Bauters, a spokeswoman for BMW’s Mini division, who added that such technology could be added to one of BMW’s electric vehicles in the future.” Oh, that will not be good…
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Iceland Crushed by Europe [Strange Maps] Posted: 15 Oct 2009 03:57 AM PDT |
