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Code, clouds, opening a NES cartridge

How the noise of a Romulan ship leads to interesting meditation over enhanced reality :

“So it occurred to me (while watching some dumb sci-fi TV series set in space) that maybe spaceships that make noise in a vacuum isn’t such a dumb idea after all. I mean, obviously they wouldn’t (couldn’t) make any noise, but there would be all kinds of reasons why it would be in the best interest of neighbouring ships to simulate the sensation. After all, noise can convey all kinds of useful information – different guns make different noises, different engines make different noises, you can tell the location – perhaps even the speed – of an object by pure noise alone. If we were to assume that – in space – the computers and sensors on ships would most likely be taking in much more information than a human could easily assimilate through a visual interface, then it makes total sense that you’d try to deliver some of it through sound. In fact it seems astonishing that you wouldn’t!”

read the rest in the wonderful Plastic Bag.

Food for thoughts, some reading materials about blogs, P2P companies, …
In the beautiful headmap

The New Scientist website these days is full of wonder. Learn everything about new gaseous life forms that can replicate and communicate. And discover the Buffalo sized guinea pigs. They would be a tremendous star for a prehistoric movie (there is a picture).

From kuildoosh.com

A very nice piece of software. I almost wish i had one of those animals just to try it.

Filmnerd is a very nice blog about the Toronto film festival. The sad news is they promised “not to post anymore from public terminals that have non-standard keyboards when (they) only have 10 minutes worth of change” like they did in their best entry so far. Go and read them though.

DJ nurse dancing at the Felix Kubin concert in cité administrative, Brussels, august 2003.

Pas posté grand chose de neuf ici ces deux dernières semaines, que j’ai passées à flâner au Canada, malgré les avertissements.

It’s already old news so maybe you know about it, but it’s good news so if you missed it, go and read it there.