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• Awesome

  A Kickstarter project to translate Cory Doctorow's Little Brother...into Burmese. Run by New York-based outfit Digital Democracy, in partnership with... [...]
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  Posted: December 12, 2009, 7:24pm EST
  by Patrick Nielsen Hayden

• The Swindle

  Down underneath the snark and the in-jokes and the whole idea of a well-established journalist writing a blog in the... [...]
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  Posted: December 11, 2009, 11:00pm EST
  by Patrick Nielsen Hayden

• Peter Watts, distinguished Canadian SF writer, arrested by US border police while trying to re-enter Canada

  From Cory Doctorow on Boing Boing: Dr. Peter Watts, Canadian science fiction writer, beaten and arrested at US border. I... [...]
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  Posted: December 11, 2009, 12:51pm EST
  by Patrick Nielsen Hayden

• Arctic Blast from the Past

  With the first major snowstorm of the winter bearing down on us, it's time to list some of the cold-weather... [...]
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  Posted: December 09, 2009, 12:01am EST
  by Jim Macdonald

• Whisperado in Brooklyn

  I'm trying to remember to mention Whisperado gigs a little earlier than the morning of the event itself. Hey! Whisperado...' [...]
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  Posted: December 08, 2009, 10:53am EST
  by Patrick Nielsen Hayden

• I Got Yer Contemporary Urban Catholic Fantasy *Right Here*

  Tomorrow, the 8th of December, 2009, will see the re-publication in trade paperback of my novel, The Apocalypse Door.... [...]
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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 9:22pm EST
  by Jim Macdonald

• Urban infrastructure blues

  About fifteen minutes ago, we heard a loud blunt noise. All the lights in the building started flickering in synch.... [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 11:10pm EST
  by Teresa Nielsen Hayden

• Trauma and Insurance

  Thanks to Liberal Oasis for this story. In a 2008 study published in the Archives of Surgery, Race and Insurance... [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 10:52pm EST
  by Jim Macdonald

• What you do, versus who you are

  Via Kos: Under pressure from big media operations interested in protecting their reporters, the Senate is considering a federal shield... [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 9:15pm EST
  by Patrick Nielsen Hayden

• Story of the Decade

  Really, it's the perfect miniature of our corrupt time: the ultra-rich, aided by the cops, unilaterally privatizing what was once... [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 2:09pm EST
  by Patrick Nielsen Hayden

• Robert Holdstock, 1948-2009

  The first thing I saw when I started up Twitter just now was a message from John Jarrold: John Jarrold... [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 12:06pm EST
  by Teresa Nielsen Hayden

• Latin obscenities meet comment-order preferences

  Debra Doyle has pointed me at a piece by Mary Beard in her weblog, A Don's Life, at TLS. It's...' [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 10:10am EST
  by Teresa Nielsen Hayden

• Thanksgiving

  By the President of the United States of America. A Proclamation. The year that is drawing towards its close has... [...]
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  Posted: November 26, 2009, 12:15am EST
  by Jim Macdonald

• Boycott Black Friday at Wal-Mart

  Boycott Black Friday in general, for its hype and fraud; but definitely boycott Wal-Mart. A year ago, on Black Friday... [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 1:11pm EST
  by Teresa Nielsen Hayden

• Restoration Hardware et al. vs. the TSA

  I was checking out the stocking-stuffer gadgets the other day at Restoration Hardware and found a nifty little object called... [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 9:00am EST
  by Teresa Nielsen Hayden

• Unclueful Rogue promo

  Some PR outfit sent me the following email. As our esteemed readers will no doubt recall, Going Rogue is Sarah... [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:44am EST
  by Teresa Nielsen Hayden

• RWA Walks the Walk

  Romance Writers of America (RWA) has reacted to Harlequin's announcement that Harlequin has gone into the vanity publishing business in...' [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 5:29pm EST
  by Jim Macdonald

• Open thread 132

  From my arsenal of quotes for dealing with SAD: Those joys were so small that they passed unnoticed, like gold... [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 1:11am EST
  by Abi Sutherland

• Scraps. Bad.

  I just heard from Velma Bowen. She says it looks like Scraps--Soren de Selby--may be having another stroke. They've called...' [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 7:28pm EST
  by Teresa Nielsen Hayden

• Scraps. Bad. [Update: Doing better. See below.]

  I just heard from Velma Bowen. She says it looks like Scraps--Soren de Selby--may be having another stroke. They've called...' [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 7:28pm EST
  by Teresa Nielsen Hayden

• Rouge Queen

  It was the typo that had to happen. And happen it did, at CNN, just now today. The story is,... [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 3:16pm EST
  by Jim Macdonald

• It was twenty years ago today

  It's evening now, here in Europe, so we're really two decades from that night. I can't watch even the... [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 2:08pm EST
  by Abi Sutherland

• "Radical Presentism"

  Cory Doctorow writes about the kind of science fiction I find myself most wanting to read these days. As he... [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 8:11am EST
  by Patrick Nielsen Hayden

• Technically American

  I almost hate to distress our commentariat with the latest piece of stupidity to sully the aether. But I think... [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 5:04pm EST
  by Abi Sutherland

• Worst Internet Hoaxes

  They've got an article over at MSNBC today, 10 most heinous hoaxes on the Net. Their definition of "hoax" seems...' [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 2:34pm EST
  by Jim Macdonald

• Revolver Books

  This one's for Abi, but that doesn't mean it's only for Abi. I was browsing some gift shop canvas booths...' [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 7:19pm EST
  by Teresa Nielsen Hayden

• "He used...sarcasm. He knew all the tricks."

  You may recall Alan Grayson (D-FL) as the freshman Congressman who explained that the Republican health care plan is "don't...'" [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 6:48pm EST
  by Patrick Nielsen Hayden

• And furthermore, the Anaconda Plan didn't actually take place on the Snake River

  John Keegan, author of the excellent The Face of Battle (1976) and many other books, is possibly the most widely-respected... [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 8:55am EST
  by Patrick Nielsen Hayden

• NaNoWriMoOThread

  ItWaADaAStorNi. TheTriOrTreaWeGo. AsMidReaEaTiZo, ComWeTurOn, OutCon, OpSeWri. ChaStiACaToLi, EnWorSpraInEx, AndPloBeToUnLiSaiJuCaTheWi. ItWa, AsTheSa, AGreDiInTheFo. NaNoWriMoHaBe. HeAThreToTeUsHoItGo. IfYouDoItBe, AdvIsWe. IfYouDoItNow, FeeFreeToPoWoCouATho. AllCaVaIsEnTheReOfTheCoPo.... [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 6:34am EST
  by Abi Sutherland

• Happier Halloween

  Q: Why do demons and ghouls hang out together? A: Because demons are a ghoul's best friend. Q: Why... [...]
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  Posted: October 31, 2009, 1:05am EDT
  by Jim Macdonald

• Sounds like a whisper

  The internet is fantastic at getting distant people together. Here I type in Amsterdam, and my words are read in... [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 6:47pm EDT
  by Abi Sutherland

• Come see Whisperado this Thursday--

  --at venerable Brooklyn dive bar Hank's Saloon, where we've generally had good gigs. Moreover, thanks to this newfangled idea called...' [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 3:35pm EDT
  by Patrick Nielsen Hayden

• Open thread 131

  0131 is the Edinburgh telephone prefix. It was changed from 031 on April 16, 1995 (PhONE Day). When calling from... [...]
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  Posted: October 25, 2009, 5:14pm EDT
  by Abi Sutherland

• America

  Also, this. Do better.... [...]
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  Posted: October 22, 2009, 12:06am EDT
  by Patrick Nielsen Hayden

• Why I won't be doing steampunk this Saturday

  This Saturday at the Tor.com meet-up, that is. I'll just be dressed as me. It's disappointing. I'd had a notion... [...]
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  Posted: October 21, 2009, 8:08pm EDT
  by Teresa Nielsen Hayden

• Seasonal Poetry

  Sneezin' and coughin' isn't ... much fun I fought the germs and the ... germs won I fought the germs...' [...]
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  Posted: October 19, 2009, 11:02pm EDT
  by Jim Macdonald

• On the Making of a Cardboard Box Oven

  Ideal for cooking Chili-Dog Casserole (see below) for Boy and/or Girl Scouts in camp: Take a cardboard box, such as... [...]
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  Posted: October 17, 2009, 8:30pm EDT
  by Jim Macdonald

• Chili-Dog Casserole

  As served at Viable Paradise XIII. Chili-Dog Casserole by Sean Craven Reprinted by permission. A certain individual of note asked... [...]
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  Posted: October 17, 2009, 1:38pm EDT
  by Jim Macdonald

• $9,695 New Age sweat lodge session kills 2, injures 19

  1. The story. I recommend starting at VerdeNews.com, a small-town news operation that's done a good job on this story.... [...]
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  Posted: October 15, 2009, 9:40pm EDT
  by Teresa Nielsen Hayden

• First Frost

  The first frost, whitening the grass today, Surprised the summer's final cloverheads And scattered them with diamonds as they lay... [...]
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  Posted: October 14, 2009, 2:29pm EDT
  by Abi Sutherland

• The Nomination Thing

  As I said earlier, the Nomination Thing looks to become a one of those tiresome canards that get trotted out... [...]
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  Posted: October 09, 2009, 3:47pm EDT
  by Abi Sutherland

• Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize

  Congratulations are in order. From the Nobel website: Obama has as President created a new climate in international politics. Multilateral... [...]
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  Posted: October 09, 2009, 6:18am EDT
  by Abi Sutherland

• It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a sideshow opportunity!

  October 9, 1992 was a normal Friday evening on the East Coast of the United States. Then, just before 8:00... [...]
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  Posted: October 09, 2009, 2:31am EDT
  by Abi Sutherland

• Pastorale

  Hey, guys, Teresa, Patrick and Jim have gone off to The Island of Spotty Internet Connectivity for the week, leaving... [...]
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  Posted: October 07, 2009, 5:02pm EDT
  by Abi Sutherland

• One year

  Today is the one-year anniversary of our friend Soren (Scraps) de Selby's disabling stroke. It's been a long way back.... [...]
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  Posted: October 06, 2009, 7:59pm EDT
  by Patrick Nielsen Hayden

• The Tay Bridge Disaster

  DIE BRÜCK' AM TAY (28. Dezember 1879) von Theodor Fontane When shall we three meet again? Macbeth „Wann treffen wir...' [...]
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  Posted: October 06, 2009, 2:29pm EDT
  by Jim Macdonald

• Today in the New York Times--

  --a pretty good piece summarizing University of California public-policy professor (and blogger) Mark Kleiman's proposals to overhaul our law-enforcement priorities.... [...]
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  Posted: October 05, 2009, 9:44pm EDT
  by Patrick Nielsen Hayden

• Panhandling for invites

  Well, it worked in 2004...Persons named Nielsen Hayden would love to check out Google Wave, should anyone have invites to... [...]
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  Posted: October 01, 2009, 1:46pm EDT
  by Patrick Nielsen Hayden

• Jon Singer turned 60 today

  It hardly seems possible, but there it is. That must mean it's also D. Potter's 60th birthday. Woo! Happy birthday,... [...]
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  Posted: September 30, 2009, 11:02pm EDT
  by Teresa Nielsen Hayden

• Massive Anglo-Saxon hoard found

  Srsly, everyone's saying "bigger than Sutton Hoo" and "biggest Anglo Saxon hoard ever found" and "It will redefine the Dark..." [...]
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  Posted: September 30, 2009, 12:45am EDT
  by Teresa Nielsen Hayden

• How to lose a war

  Commenting on the Washington Post's new "guidelines" for their employees' use of services like Twitter and Facebook, New York Times...' [...]
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  Posted: September 29, 2009, 11:52am EDT
  by Patrick Nielsen Hayden

• The Prisoner's Dilemma

  One of the areas of ongoing controversy in the UK is whether prisoners should be allowed to vote whilst incarcerated.... [...]
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  Posted: September 28, 2009, 6:00pm EDT
  by Abi Sutherland

• Boing Boing commenters party like it's October 2001

  Boing Boing invites Muslim-Americans to guest-blog about culture, sensibility, faith, and everyday life. Inane controversy ensues. Nielsen Haydens weigh in.... [...]
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  Posted: September 27, 2009, 11:26pm EDT
  by Patrick Nielsen Hayden

• Open thread 130

  Hadrian is my favorite emperor1. I'd have loved him for the Pantheon alone, with its soaring, unprecedented, unmatched dome....' [...]
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  Posted: September 27, 2009, 10:04am EDT
  by Abi Sutherland

• Brooklyn pwns Westboro

  Noting that representives of the Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church (the "God Hates Fags" people) are currently visiting Brooklyn in order... [...]
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  Posted: September 25, 2009, 3:09pm EDT
  by Patrick Nielsen Hayden

• A wild and crazy idea: giving the public access to public data

  Streetsblog has a good post about the clear benefits of public agencies providing public access to their data: If you... [...]
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  Posted: September 23, 2009, 2:57pm EDT
  by Patrick Nielsen Hayden

• Porn turns you gay: the implications

  I know you've probably read this story, but it's irresistibly dumb. Yesterday, from Eric Kleefeld, at Talking Points Memo: Coburn...' [...]
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  Posted: September 23, 2009, 1:12pm EDT
  by Teresa Nielsen Hayden

• Bike blogging spreading like kudzu

  Patrick, referencing my sequence of bike commute photos, did a much more expansive photoset of his own, including two different... [...]
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  Posted: September 21, 2009, 7:20pm EDT
  by Abi Sutherland

• Dysfunctional Families Day: Inversion Experience

  When I was twenty, two of my friends took me to Gay Day in San Francisco (I gather it's now... [...]
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  Posted: September 21, 2009, 1:00am EDT
  by Abi Sutherland

• More bikeblogging, and related subjects

  Since Abi photoblogged her daily bicycle commute, I've done the same for my own. Not tangentially, I've recently been fascinated... [...]
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  Posted: September 19, 2009, 7:29pm EDT
  by Patrick Nielsen Hayden

• My very own Rota Fortunae

  Every working day, it's the same thing. Get the kids to school, then off I go. I mount the laptop... [...]
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  Posted: September 17, 2009, 7:54pm EDT
  by Abi Sutherland

• Pierogi Pizza

  Take pizza dough. Make it flat and circular in your favorite way. Take a mess of sliced onion. Fry in... [...]
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  Posted: September 16, 2009, 12:39am EDT
  by Jim Macdonald

• Rapture of the nerds

  Alex Lightman, writing for h+ Magazine, on “Sex and the Singularity”: [W]e will be installing bioports into our body, a... [...]
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  Posted: September 13, 2009, 2:04am EDT
  by avram

• The Bully Pulpit

  We began a discussion last week on another thread. I called time on it with the promise that I'd pull...' [...]
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  Posted: September 12, 2009, 11:25am EDT
  by Abi Sutherland

• September 11

  Today marks a grim anniversary, a day when a few fanatics, equipped and secretly encouraged by foreign ideologues, struck a... [...]
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  Posted: September 11, 2009, 2:46pm EDT
  by Patrick Nielsen Hayden

• A different kind of Turing test

  There's plenty to criticize about UK prime minister Gordon Brown, and if we start listing the sins of "New Labour"... [...]
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  Posted: September 10, 2009, 9:22pm EDT
  by Patrick Nielsen Hayden

• A handful of dust

  Teresa is re-reading Neil Gaiman's Sandman and blogging about it on Tor.com. Here's her introductory post, and here's her just-posted... [...]
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  Posted: September 09, 2009, 1:28pm EDT
  by Patrick Nielsen Hayden

• Year's Best Fantasy 9

  Just out today from Tor.com: Year's Best Fantasy 9, edited by David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer. Thirty stories, including... [...]
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  Posted: September 08, 2009, 1:30pm EDT
  by Jim Macdonald

• Works and Days of Hands

  Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and... [...]
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  Posted: September 06, 2009, 11:57am EDT
  by Abi Sutherland

• Heigh Ho and Away We Go

  To see the agricultural show. They've got things there to make you laugh A three-legged sheep and a two headed...' [...]
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  Posted: September 06, 2009, 12:37am EDT
  by Jim Macdonald

• Robert M. Fletcher, Part V: The Hammer Comes Down

  Attorney General Files Lawsuit Against "Literary Company" TALLAHASSEE, FL - Attorney General Bill McCollum today announced that his office filed... [...]
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  Posted: September 03, 2009, 6:03pm EDT
  by Jim Macdonald

• Four hundred years ago today

  From Russell Shorto's The Island at the Center of the World: And so they continued north: misty mornings, bloody sunsets,... [...]
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  Posted: September 03, 2009, 7:23am EDT
  by Patrick Nielsen Hayden

• Book Wanted

  Conexiones by Zayas-Bazan, Student Activites Manual, fourth edition. Don't want the textbook, just the workbook. Anyone have one?...' [...]
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  Posted: September 02, 2009, 12:14pm EDT
  by Jim Macdonald

• Giving Christianity a Bad Name

  School wants student passwords (CNN) One Georgia school says it has the right to demand access to any student's Facebook... [...]
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  Posted: September 02, 2009, 10:23am EDT
  by Jim Macdonald

• The Club Is All Their Law, To Keep All Men in Awe

  The AP reports: Bush daughter Jenna Hager becomes 'Today' reporter NBC's "Today" show has hired someone with White House experience... [...]
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  Posted: August 30, 2009, 9:45pm EDT
  by Patrick Nielsen Hayden

• Oh No Lev Grossman No

  Point, counterpoint. I do feel like I've seen this argument before. Endlessly. I generally enjoy the books Lev Grossman praises...' [...]
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  Posted: August 30, 2009, 2:12pm EDT
  by Patrick Nielsen Hayden

• Flash of insight: swift, blinding, pointless

  Saints were the Pokémon of the Middle Ages.... [...]
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  Posted: August 30, 2009, 7:09am EDT
  by Abi Sutherland

• Robert M. Fletcher of Boca Raton, Scammer. Part IV

  The Broward-Palm Beach New Times has this: In Boca, Even the Book Publishers Are Fraud Suspects. Both Publishers Weekly and... [...]
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  Posted: August 28, 2009, 8:55pm EDT
  by Jim Macdonald

• Open thread 129

  129 is the atomic number of Unbiennium, an element which has yet to be discovered. It is also the number... [...]
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  Posted: August 28, 2009, 1:06pm EDT
  by Teresa Nielsen Hayden

• Kennedy

  Flaws and all, he was probably the greatest senator in American history. Ezra Klein: There is an impulse to honor... [...]
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  Posted: August 26, 2009, 3:06pm EDT
  by Patrick Nielsen Hayden

• The General Lousiness of Everything, Account'd For

  Kieran Healy explains: [A]s a famous paper by Kruger and Sunning showed, people who are bad at what they do... [...]
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  Posted: August 26, 2009, 1:07am EDT
  by Patrick Nielsen Hayden

• Op anger tale

  Something Old The Dutch are famed for, among other things, their excellent command of English. Children here start studying it... [...]
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  Posted: August 24, 2009, 7:02pm EDT
  by Abi Sutherland

• That Was Weird

  I just got an unusual phone call. Caller ID said it was from Clearwater, Florida, and the number was 1-727-475-2550.... [...]
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  Posted: August 24, 2009, 2:20pm EDT
  by Jim Macdonald

• An Expansion on Pallative Care

  I'm promoting this from PNH's Sidelights: The utter venality of the chattering-class "yes, but" stance (a blog post by Kevin... [...]
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  Posted: August 21, 2009, 4:44pm EDT
  by Jim Macdonald

• An Expansion on Palliative Care

  I'm promoting this from PNH's Sidelights: The utter venality of the chattering-class "yes, but" stance (a blog post by Kevin...' [...]
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  Posted: August 21, 2009, 4:44pm EDT
  by Jim Macdonald

• Robert M. Fletcher, Part III: Spammer and Scammer

  Fletcher has been urging his victims authors for some time to advertise their Strategic Book Group (Strategic Book Publishing and... [...]
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  Posted: August 21, 2009, 10:21am EDT
  by Jim Macdonald

• Papier-blogging le Congrès Mondial

  I came home from Worldcon to some hard drive trouble. All fixed now, but it was the work of days... [...]
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  Posted: August 20, 2009, 6:40pm EDT
  by avram

• Touching back to principles

  This quote, from a widely forwarded article in the (British) Guardian, got me thinking about a picture wider than just... [...]
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  Posted: August 20, 2009, 5:55pm EDT
  by Abi Sutherland

• I'll show you mine if you'll show me yours

  We all hear talk of the ruinous tax rates in Europe as opposed to the US. I mean, us poor... [...]
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  Posted: August 18, 2009, 3:07pm EDT
  by Abi Sutherland

• Robert Fletcher, Literary Scammer, Part II

  I'd wondered why Fletcher had filed his wholly insubstantial, frivolous and not advanced in good faith lawsuit when he did....' [...]
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  Posted: August 16, 2009, 5:45pm EDT
  by Jim Macdonald

• More Moose Festival

  Remember how much fun you had at last year's Moose Festival? Well, this year's Moose Festival is coming up in... [...]
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  Posted: August 15, 2009, 7:00pm EDT
  by Jim Macdonald

• Fighting fire with fire: an email forward

  You know those political email forwards one gets from relatives? Well, I got one from my father, but it didn't...' [...]
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  Posted: August 15, 2009, 6:01am EDT
  by Abi Sutherland

• True Tales of Health Insurance

  From the Weekend Reformer (Brattleboro, VT), August 8-9, 2009: BELLOWS FALLS -- A former LeFevre Ambulance Service employee is accusing... [...]
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  Posted: August 15, 2009, 1:01am EDT
  by Jim Macdonald

• Panels and parlor games

  So all you lucky devils went to Worldcon and I didn't. And now I get to read panel reports, which...' [...]
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  Posted: August 14, 2009, 7:55pm EDT
  by Abi Sutherland

• Been lied to so long you wouldn't know the truth if it came up and kissed you on the mouth

  I've been reading defenses of the current US health insurance/care system multi-tentacled soul-destroying monster. Not the official ones, the paid...' [...]
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  Posted: August 11, 2009, 6:59pm EDT
  by Abi Sutherland

• Robert M. Fletcher

  More on Robert M. Fletcher (and I will have yet more to say about him). Fletcher and his various scams... [...]
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  Posted: August 11, 2009, 5:09pm EDT
  by Jim Macdonald

• Robert M. Fletcher, Literary Scammer

  More on Robert M. Fletcher (and I will have yet more to say about him). Fletcher and his various scams... [...]
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  Posted: August 11, 2009, 5:09pm EDT
  by Jim Macdonald

• Making Lumiere: The Changelog

  UPDATE After a brief pause for station identification to move the plums to a different icebox, the party has been... [...]
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  Posted: August 07, 2009, 5:44pm EDT
  by Patrick Nielsen Hayden

• Life affords few such opportunities

  For complicated reasons, we wound up driving the Hugo Award bases up to Montreal in the trunk of our rented... [...]
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  Posted: August 06, 2009, 1:53pm EDT
  by Patrick Nielsen Hayden

• Shooting Back

  The DNC, for a wonder, isn't taking the latest wingnut assaults on freedom and democracy lying down....' [...]
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  Posted: August 05, 2009, 3:01pm EDT
  by Jim Macdonald