[links] Link salad for a hump day

[Links]

[links] Link salad for a hump day

If You Could Change Any Aspect of The Science Fiction Field, What Would it Be? — A rather interesting installment of SF Signal’s “Mind Meld” group interview series.

Cartoon skeletons — See also here for a different treatment of the same concept. (Thanks to danjite.)

Technology’s Toll on Privacy and Security — Scientific American on the dangers of transparency. (Thanks to lt260.)

Mummified remains from 1948 plane crash identified — Real life CSI. Took longer than 42 minutes, though. (Thanks to lt260.)

Student inventor creates £20 wind turbine out of scrap for developing world — Paging Tom Swift to the patent office. Kind of cool, actually. (Snurched from Gizmodo.)

8/20/08
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Last night’s weigh-out: n/a
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Posted: 5:35 am Wed August 20 2008 |

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