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For toDAY third of MAY twenty-TEN ManhatTEN reports mild spring-type weather
under the Fuller Dome. Ditto on the General Technics Plaza.

But Shalmaneser is a Micryogenic® computer bathed in liquid helium and it's cold in
his vault.

(DITTO Use it! The mental process involved is exactly analogous to ( Read more... )

Item HOGAN, Donald Orville, WASP, age 34 years (2010), Christian (nondenom.). Detail (Persona) Self-employed researcher, i.e. dilettante; spends his days e-browsing through a list of publications at the New York Public Library (Actual) Spy. Synthesist, Office of Research Co-ordination, United States Army Reserve (rank: Lieutenant); bitter, ( Read more... )

John Brunner was SF's prophet of the Information Age: to a degree much greater than any of his "branier" contemporaries (hello, Isaac Asimov!), Brunner got the impact that computers + telecommunications + media would have on society. (Asimov, on the other hand, was so tied to the 1940s concept of Computer as Mechanical Man that he completely failed ( Read more... )

Winter 1974: It's cold in North Carolina. Not the snow-blown cold of the Northeast, nor the frozen cold of the Midwest; it's that peculiar North Carolina kind of cold, a boreal roar bowling down the slopes of the mountains to the west, accelerating through the Venturi tube foothills in the middle, funneling into the sea-sloping Piedmont like a ( Read more... )

John Kilian Houston Brunner was a science fiction writer. He was born 24 September 1934 at Preston Crowmarsh, Oxfordshire, England, UK. He died in the saddle at the 53rd World Science Fiction Convention (Intersection) in Glasgow, Scotland, on 26 August 1995. He sold his first novel at 17, he served as an officer in the Royal Air Force from 1953 to ( Read more... )

Anne E. Kornblut, in today's Washington Post:Even by President Obama's loquacious standards, an answer he gave here on health care Friday was a doozy ( Read more... )

Did Japan try to develop an "ultimate weapon" in response to the August, 1998 overflight of a North Korean Taepo-Dong ballistic missile? According to a CIA document leaked to the press today, the answer is yes. The document, entitled "Theopotential Technology Development In Japan: An Intelligence Retrospective", details the clandestine effort of ( Read more... )

The Burning Platform, 30 March 2010:
159 New Bureaucracies: The Amazing Morass of New Bureaucracies and Programs Created by the Obamacare BillObamacare creates fifty-nine new grant programs ( Read more... )

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