SETI founder speaks about Intel P2P cancer
project. “If corporate America was involved in a community PC effort to find
these wonder cancer drugs, who would ultimately benefit?” The Register

“Japan is the global imagination’s
default setting for the future. ” Modern boys and mobile girls: William Gibson explains his fascination with all things Japanese, which is evident when you read any of his writing. And he flatters the British for their unique vantage point on the East. The Observer The little blurb about the author at the bottom, by the way, mentions that the title of his forthcoming book is Pattern Recognition. That‘s been another central concept in all his novels, hasn’t it?

I do miss the BlogVoices discussion capability now that I’ve eliminated it. The blog is loading much faster, and several readers have written celebrating the fact that they can read me more easily now, that BlogVoices broke their browsers in various ways. So it’s history. But I did enjoy bringing up the page and scanning down through the items I’d recently posted looking for the indication that there were comments posted, that this isn’t a one-way conversation. Even though that’s what blogging is supposed to be all about…