Coupons and SD cards

January 30th 2004 at 11:54 am

A 10% Buy.com coupon that showed up in my email that I won’t use.
But you might.
And finally the 1gig SD cards are shipping (here is one for $380). 512s are coming out for $130.
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Currently listening to: Gateway from the album Semantic Spaces by Delerium
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That Dude From Ben & Jerry’s Again

January 30th 2004 at 9:31 am

So ya’ll expressed amusement for my signing up at True Majority.org, here’s the letter I got (from that Ben dude himself! Well, his autoresponder that is…)

Authors, Go Forth and Back Up

January 30th 2004 at 9:13 am

Another one of my friends had a last file on a current novel this week. Mary Anne Mohanraj had a loss of files, and someone on a list serv I was on mentioned losing files. Now I hear Tim Pratt lost some stuff.
A firewire enclosure and a cheap hardrive can be found for somewhere under […]

Pickled Dragon

January 30th 2004 at 9:01 am

Pickled dragon mystery

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Currently listening to: Incantation from the album Semantic Spaces by Delerium
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War

January 29th 2004 at 9:34 pm

Apache cam footage of an engagement in Iraq that’s being forwarded around the web.
I’m not 100% on rules of war stuff, but is it civilized to execute a wounded guy? Not sure.
The context of this clip is that these 4 dudes tried to shoot the helicopter down and this was the response. Interesting. Make of […]

Ragamuffin Progress

January 28th 2004 at 11:24 pm

Added 200 words tonight while revising chapter one to make it… more punchy.
Currently listening to: Honey from the album Play by Moby

Saddam Photos

January 28th 2004 at 4:53 pm

Soldiers participating in the capture of Saddam took pictures of the whole procedure and some of them are now on the web.

Observational/Determinative

January 28th 2004 at 4:46 pm

Jay Lake sent me an email saying that there is a story in Wired about a ‘computational view of the universe’ that he said reminded him of my story In Orbite Medievali, where the premise is that our beliefs about the universe actually shape it. It’s a fun theory that makes IOM not only a […]

Populist Mars

January 28th 2004 at 12:02 pm

Mars is popular?
Since the rover Spirit landed on Mars three weeks ago, 32 million people have visited the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Web site, dwarfing the numbers of any other space event, including last year’s space shuttle accident. The agency recorded four billion hits, one for each item called up on the site, as […]

The Chunky Monkey Federal Budget

January 27th 2004 at 7:02 pm

That one dude from Ben and Jerry’s ice cream uses oreo cookies to demonstrate some stuff about the federal budget in a different piece of flash based activism. I actually signed up for their emails and ability to fax protests. I may not agree with the stuff they send out, but I should start getting […]