Links

Creative Commons Listings

Creative Commons Search

Sites that allow documents like this book to be posted.

• Creative Commons specific licencing in the sites code.
• Document listings.
• Book sized listings
• Term or keyword lists to aid readers in their search.

ourmedia.org A listing of all types of creative commons works. This is directly associated with the internet archive.org project which is licence agnostic.

Creative Commons Wiki The Creative Commons Site Wiki

scribd.com A community based site for posting documents. It has conversion, and reformating features for viewing documents of many formats inline in your browser window automatically. Authors can also allow users to print nicely bound documents. Very slick.

Festivals and conventions

Icon Science Fiction Festival

Organizations doing good works.

EFF

Foresight Institute

Creative Commons

Programs used to write this book and create this site.

VIM text editor

Aspell spell checker

Latex typesetting system along with the SFFMS Science Fiction and Fantasy Manuscript type setting class

Gimp graphics editor

Open office with the Java grammar checker Language Tool

Apache web server using Server Side Includes and Cascading Style Sheets.

Mailman mailing list manager

Just a few of the early influences on the book.

The free online book Engines of Creation

The news site Nanodot

The news site Slashdot

The book The Diamond Age

Articles in the magazine US News and World Report

Great conversations in and around LILUG meetings

Many of the Marvel Comics especially the 2099 series

MIT (and others too) has been fooling with wearable computers, glasses and cameras long before I even conceived of the plot of Thicker Than Blood. Lightweight portable computers are just about there, and popular game consoles are making use of wands, so the only thing missing is glasses and open source drivers to tie the three together.