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August 10, 2009
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"Anecdotally, physicians use the term to describe a state in which a person becomes agitated and combative, with superhuman strength and skyrocketing body temperature."
(tags:crime med )Robots to get their own operating system - tech - 10 August 2009 - New Scientist
"At present, all robot software is designed uniquely, even for parts common to all robots ? that could be about to change"
(tags:sci tech robot-revol
Station Ident: Through The Haze…
…I can barely see, but, yes, the switch has been thrown and warrenellisdotcom is back on. Good morning, sinners.
August 7, 2009
FREAKANGELS Print Volume 3
In November:
SUPERGOD: October 2009
In five issues, for Avatar Press. I think of it as the third leg of a superhero-fiction trilogy, following BLACK SUMMER and NO HERO. This one is much more of a science-fiction piece.
…in the world of SUPERGOD, superhumans are the ultimate expression of the Messiah complex, and scientists can build Messiahs who will fly down from the skies to save the world. No-one thought about how they'd save the world — or even if they'd want to. So begins the apocalyptic tomorrow of SUPERGOD — the story of h
CAPTAIN SWING & THE ELECTRICAL PIRATES OF CINDERY ISLAND: January 2010
Four issues, in January 2010. Not steampunk. An Electrical Romance of a Pirate Utopia Thwarted.
August 6, 2009
SF MAGAZINES: Digital Rot
Hotly-tipped online sf magazine JIM BAEN'S UNIVERSE is dead.
Popular online speculative-fiction magazine FARRAGO'S WAINSCOT is dead.
UNIVERSE reportedly paid very well, and charged a subscription fee. WAINSCOT paid only a small honorarium, and was free to read.
WAINSCOT, according to the link above, will be mutating and dividing into new online and print projects.
UNIVERSE is closing in early 2010, dealing respectfully with authors and subscribers alike, but is clearly not going to mutate into anyth
WIRED UK: Column 05
Now live at the WIRED UK website. You can also, of course, find it in the current print edition of WIRED UK.
Problems of the future. Designing a transport hub for the loading and traffic flow of pharma capsules built to deliver drugs directly into the heart of cancer tumours, using carbon fullerenes and working on the nanoscale, where communication between building and vehicle will have to be conducted via coded protein transfer because you're below the limit at which radio waves can be transmit
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