So I’ve spent the last three days or so with downhere‘s new offering Ending is Beginning on my virtual turntable. I am insane for this album. I can’t even be coherent about it. It feels groundbreaking. It feels extraordinary. And at the same time, it is downhere to the core. Maybe this is just artistic [...]
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Today we hear ebook publishers tell each other and anyone who’ll listen that the barrier to ebooks is screen resolution. It’s bollocks, and so is the whole sermonette about how nice a book looks on your bookcase and how nice it smells and how easy it is to slip into the tub. These are obvious [...]
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The Large Hadron Collider should be going on-line for the first time at the CERN lab on the Franco-Swiss border any…second…now, bringing with it either a fresh hope for all humanity, or the possibility of sub-atomic black holes devouring our reality, our space-time continuum and our pastrami sandwiches. Or both. I can’t decide. Anyway, in [...]
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Following up on my post yesterday about the troubling EULA provisions in the Chrome installation package, it appears that Google is admitting that they made a mistake and working to fix it. I made this comment a couple of places yesterday, but I’ll make it again: For some bizarre reason, I never expected Google not [...]
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Some Nifty I’ve got to send props to Cubicle Buddy Grant for pointing out to me the new online repository for the Codex Sinaiticus. What is the Codex Sinaiticus, you ask? To WikiQuote: Codex Sinaiticus (London, Brit. Libr., Add. 43725; Gregory-Aland nº א (Aleph) or 01, Soden δ 2) is a 4th century uncial manuscript [...]
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Just wanted to pimp some links and free stuff that have come my way lately. One of my favorite CCM bands – downhere – is offering their most recent album, Wide-Eyed and Mystified, as a free download for the month of June. I like this offering quite a bit because of its increasingly sophisticated and [...]
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Just a quick hitter because I wanted to pimp an article: I’ve mentioned before that I have an unhealthy fixation with sports text simulations (and in particular, one baseball simulation league, though I am frequently the absolute suck and/or the Master of Fail). In fact, even as I type this, I am eagerly anticipating the [...]
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In case you hadn’t noticed, there’s now a tab at the top of the site for the newly created archive blog for Agnosis. As of late last night (or early this morning, I forget which), the last chapter of that novel has been posted. I hope you enjoyed it. Or will enjoy it if you’re [...]
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We’re getting toward the end of Agnosis, so I’ve started thinking seriously about the next work I’m going to serialize. My initial plan had been to go ahead and post From the Hands of Hostile Gods, but I think I’m going to go off queue for a bit and post an older, non-science fiction work [...]
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So I just got done watching Frank Darabont’s video interpretation of the Stephen King classic story The Mist. I mean literally. Like in the last ten minutes. And I am so pissed off, I’m almost shaking. I’m outraged. I feel emotionally violated. Wait, let’s step back for a moment. I should put all of my [...]
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