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Links

• Tim O'Reilly on Google Text - Tim kind of sums up my own view on this in his post on September 27, 2005 08:19 AM (near the bottom of the thread at time of writing this). Interesting to me that this ties up with Brewster Kahle's talk on access to all human knowledge that he gave at NotCon in 2004. I'm sure it's more than coincidence - I'm not sure what happened in Kahle v Ashcroft though, and I can't be arsed to google for it at the moment.
• And I for one welcome our new * overlords - I thought I was all clever doing this search pattern a la Robot Wisdom. Turns out Language Log did it over a year ago. And coined a term for these fill in the blank template sentences. They call them snowclones.
• New Yorker - Genesis redone by designer deities.
• Making Light - how to do triage. No really, it's very interesting, and potentially very useful in certain kinds of terrifying situation.
• Guardian - Stan Robinson interviewed. I kind of gave up after Red Mars, but I'm thinking I need to read the new eco-gloom stuff, if only to see what the future's really going to be like. Maybe should re-read Brunner's The Sheep Look Up
• Rolling Stone - depressing stuff about the process of US government. I'm not sure ours would look much prettier close up, mind.
• Steve Pavlina - life lessons from Blackjack. Some interesting thoughts in here. I like the bits about the danger of losing out by being over-cautious when things are going your way.
• Cambridge in Colour - fantastic deep colour photos of the city.
• FoldedSpace - digest of How to Get Rich - type books.
• Bob McNamara - on US foreign policy and nuclear deterrent.

Posted by MFreestone at October 8, 2005 08:24 PM