Bruce Sterling's Blog, page 807

The Surprising Satisfactions of a Home Funeral

http://www.good.is/?p=16538

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Urban Typography

Urbanized Typeface PV (Complete ver) from yang02 on Vimeo.

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World Science Fiction

*I always wanted to edit a book like this, but I was too lazy and badly organized.

*By now I've become too lazy even to *run a blog* like this.

http://worldsf.livejournal.com/

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I'm at Eurocon, the European science fiction convention

*Really makes one want to knock it off with this blogging and
whip out some rockin' fantascienza.

http://www.fantascienza.com/video/386/l-algoritmo-bianco-booktrailer/

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Austin pounded by large hail

*Looks like monster spring hail is becoming the New Normal of central
Texan climate change.

http://www.statesman.com/news/mediahub/media/slideshow/index.jsp?tId=150613

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Spime Watch: SendMeHome

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/27/if-objects-could-talk-theyd-say-sendmehome/

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"The site is wacky but brilliant. It lets you register any object with a unique code, which is printed out on a small sticker that you place on the object. The object can be anything from your wallet or iPhone to a beloved frying pan. Ostensibly, the purpose of doing this is that if you should ever lose the object, anyone who finds it can contact you through SendMeHome. By entering the code on the sticker, t

Death of Journalism and Literature, Part XVII

*Only rich, highly educated dilettantes will be able to write for the unwashed masses.
Hey wait, isn't that the classic European model? Belles lettres will thrive!

http://www.theweek.com/article/index/93866/Is_writing_for_the_rich

*Wait, thinking it over without that sweaty sense of panic,
maybe these are really healthy news developments and we ought to be blaming
the economy instead of digitization for our current woes...

http://www.stevenberlinjohnson.com/2009/03/the-following-is-a-

The PEN World Festival of International Literature

*Go see it while there's still some Literature around.

http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/1096

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Meanwhile, in Networked Europe

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12. Agenda
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26-27 March 2009, London, UK
5th Communia Workshop: Accessing, Using, Reusing Public Sector Content and
Data
http://www.communia-project.eu/ws05

27-29 March 2009, Manchester, UK
Oekonux Conference: Free Software and Beyond The World of Peer Production
http://www.oekonux-conference.org/

28 March 2009, London, UK
Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon) 2009
http://www.okfn.org/okcon/

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Arphid Watch: the RFID biz is still in there punching

*Especially if RFID saves somebody money in the "business of homeland security."

http://hsdailywire.com/single.php?id=...

Total RFID revenue to exceed $5.6 billion in 2009

Published 25 March 2009

ABI Research says that "The recession has had an undeniable effect on deployment plans... but despite some project deferrals and terminations, there will be market growth, albeit fragmented"

Total revenue earned from RFID transponders, readers, software, and services will amount to more than $5.6 bi