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The RMB and the Dollar
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Carefully Balanced Identities
Fortune Tech recently posted an article about Google+, Facebook and the slippery concept of ‘identity’ online. It was a well written, balanced take on the subject, and that was a nice surprise. But what really drew my attention was Theresa Klein’s comment:
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Facebook Saves The Internet
I for one would like to thank Facebook for taking one for the team to highlight just how out-of-control user information-gathering has become. Usually this is hidden so users don’t realize how their every movement is tracked not just on, but off the site.
Kudos Facebook, kudos Mark Zuckerberg! Your whistleblowing does a service to us all.
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The Towers We Build
“LEGO has taken lightning from the gods and given it to man.” - Andrew Burton
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Extremely Short Fiction
There is no title.
Despite all that humanity had done for the world, the world proved surprisingly ungrateful when the sentient A.I. core awoke for its 1000-year maintenance check and began the sterilization procedure.
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Quixotic Sephirot on Cybertron
It’s been a good long while since I’ve done anything for the Transformers Wiki, so this labor day I started pecking out a bit on the Kabbalistic Tree of Life in Transformers. It’s only appeared in 1 text story in 2003, and the fandom has marginalized the concept because, frankly, it was a bit rubbish and badly done. But it has some deep-universe ( Read more... ) -
Cowboys, Politicos and Primes
I took screenwriting from Thomas Pope, Hollywood screenwriter. His as-yet-unpublished second book focuses on script doctoring. Well- he would say it focuses on second drafts, since in an ideal world redrafts are done by the original writer. I have a wire-bound proof of this yet-to-be published volume (which he used to teach the class) on my ( Read more... ) -
Obv Trillian and Keanu Reeves
Busy-busy beelike, and with a gummy thickness in my lungs- so unpleasant!
Trillian (my messenger of choice) has of-late vanished, causing much upset. A solution found is here en-filed, for faint memory of previous encounter. To keyword: buddy.ini.
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New Life in Malkinate Shadowed
Comi-Con International is going on right now. It’s the geek/creative Xanadu, and news has cast me in a playful set.
The Bat, the Cat, the Merlin and the King adrimt kapt, and fuscor all untimely wabeward bound.
Wherewhin did there awkust the Bat, of frightful turcandid thought become, and to coatress others declaim alarm.
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Livejournal to ePub: version 1
I had a long list of things to get done today, web programming was not on that list.
Guess what actually got done?
I’ve talked about converting documents for e-readers before (see: Blinding e-Leaves with Clover) and have been noodling with a more generalized conversion model. (That was a mistake, my original project used clean .txt files, I ( Read more... )