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links for 2007-07-05

• Second Life Keyboard Shortcuts [PDF]
  Print this before you start spending time in Second Life, it'll make your life a lot easier!
  (tags: secondlife hotwo education edu2.0)
• New techniques to wipe out specific memories [Boing Boing]
  "Researchers are developing methods to dampen or wipe out specific memories." (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind anyone?)
  (tags: memory)
• BBC reporter freed in Gaza [ABC News]
  "Alan Johnston, the BBC journalist held hostage in the Gaza Strip since March, has been handed over by his Islamist captors to ruling Hamas officials..."
  (tags: bbc journalism hostage)
• Sci-Fi Author Kim Stanley Robinson Discusses Our Planet's Future [Wired]
  "I'm hoping the scientific community continues to go off like a fire alarm in a hotel, ... and that that will do the trick. If they do, the democracies, the political leadership...will all recognize that this is a real threat."
  (tags: environment ecology sciencefiction kimstanleyrobinson)
• Engaging at Any Speed? Commercials Put to Test [New York Times]
  Apparently TV advertising is just as effective at 'fast forward' speed! (Ahem, but are they deadly ... Blipvert!)
  (tags: advertising commercials tv marketing)