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So... fishbot.
http://project-upstream.awardspace.com/ is the website for the people running it ( Read more... ) -
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This post is about Terrouge Firebird. If you don't know what that is and want to: it's a e-zine, by and for a bunch of book-readers who, mostly, are united by a past or present affection for the Redwall series by Brian Jacques. Contains fan-fiction, reviews (of well-known works and the more-obscure), art and the occasional bit of poetry. It lives ( Read more... ) -
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Note to the programmers who wrote the code that I get to add to:
Just because you're using a language that isn't object-oriented doesn't mean you get to make everything a global variable. Information hiding actually adds to the readability of code, I promise. Modular code is a lot easier to understand and properly modify ( Read more... ) -
Debris
I was idly reading the moving-out guidelines (not applicable, but I was curious), which includes a checklist of things to do when cleaning/replacing.
I read: "Kitchen: 1. Sweep the floor and remove all dirt and gerbils." -
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Hellgate: London is dying. Now what am I going to play for an entire day to celebrate a working computer? Argh ( Read more... ) -
Sorry!
Messed up my computer -- the technical details: a few problems with my battery or power cord led me to follow Toshiba's tech support site's advice to upgrade the BIOS, and it appeared to have gone fine, but it won't boot. Sad. So away it goes to someone who can fix it, and I'll have much less frequent internet access since I'm going to be relying ( Read more... ) -
"Buckminster Fuller--life or death."
"You do not have the right to eliminate yourself. You do not belong to you. You belong to Universe."
A New Yorker article on Buckminster Fuller. When I heard a little of his invention-misadventures, I immediately thought of Discworld's Bergholt Stuttley "Bloody Stupid" Johnson. -
So I stole this idea.
I hope you don't mind, Geo. (I missed it when you did it -- forgot to comment ( Read more... ) -
Just a thought.
How long until product placement in books?
If. And would it even be sensible?