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been running across some really good scifi short stories & related items in online collections lately, thought I'd pass on a few: they're made out of meat - terry bisson classic, apparently; pretty straightforward. fermi's paradox solved - one way. the singularity - t. bisson (essay)...
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i poked around twitter a bit recently while I've been playing, and i noticed that there were basically two styles: the originally intended open-loop micro-blogging, and the chat. people don't seem to have figured out how to really use micro-blogging, they either fell back into chat patterns...
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once upon a time, i included the following in an email, which subsequently got posted by craig on the open source poetry site: oh, to be a cosmic mole in and out of planck-sized holes experiencing all as whole trying to preserve one's soul yeah, yeah, never mind. so today, craig, who brings it back...
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searching through the google site , i ran across: Source: http://www.google.com/virgle/ i confess, they had me there for a split second. don't miss the videos ! also, a reminder: tomorrow is geek christmas - go out and spend spend spend !
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fiddler on the roof ? nah. i just put the world sunrise map image in the sidebar. i always like following the equinox there (about a week from today), seeing the straight up and down terminator. world sunlight map at die.net of course, that's only relative to the projection being parallel to the...
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curiouser & curiouser, said alice .
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highly recommended: nova: ape genius. just caught this on pbs. takeaway: control of emotions is critical to accomplishment; so is the ability / desire to teach. interesting, that last part: if the teaching skill is taught (metaknowledge), then the developmental acceleration can really begin. as for the...
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of course, knowing my perverse tendencies, you'll realize that this is much lighter in nature than the title would otherwise indicate. if i were really writing about "the cruel face of addiction", it would have been a light-hearted title. gotta tell ya, i'm dissappointed with this windows live writer...
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... if heat is molecular kinetic energy, does that mean a fast moving water ballon has hot water from some perspective ? if so, what's the temp / unit of velocity ? so very hot water can remain liquid. sort of. but this is true, think of things hitting the earth's atmosphere.
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McNaught's Matinee missed it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_McNaught . i'm usually more on top of things like this. *kick self* *kick self* *kick self* *kick self* *kick self* .... self: hey, what are ya doin' that for ?! you're the one who screwed up ! *punch self* *punch self* *punch self* *punch...
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kinda thinking about that poor groundhog poking his head out of a hole, looking for spring. that's me, finally showing up on a blog. this one sits in most of the categories here, just so's it covers bases. just took 25 minutes to order a pizza by phone. good thing i have a couple beers in me, pretty...
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so there was a bit of an ice-fall overnight, you know, the freezing rain that coats things & makes them pretty - and sometimes break. no breaks around here (although i did have to patch up the back porch awning due to a branch that fell sometime in the last couple of weeks - fiberglass is amazing...
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In a message dated 10/18/2005 11:25:58 Eastern Daylight Time, gsowa writes: Professor: Evolution cannot fully explain biology Tuesday, October 18, 2005 Posted: 1102 GMT (1902 HKT) what a co-inky-dink, i was just reading that. or maybe it was His 1 doing ;-) my favorite quote: " Behe, who was expected...
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... so i'm reading some assinine thread on a forum somewhere 1 , and the thought hits me: is there an evolution game out there ? i know there's sim-this and sim-that 2 , but how about something with wider scope ? a quick search and all i managed to find were some games in the prehistoric life section...
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“shit...” “what?” “... i was just running a prime number search ...” “that old chestnut ? the mathematicians proved years ago that there was no infallible predictive pattern.” “i know; i was just tuning up these new quantum circuit chips, kinda felt...