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- Abigail Blakeway Edelman and Benjamin Blakeway Edelman • November 2, 2008
The babies have arrived.
- Balticon 42 Wrapup • May 27, 2008
Chaos and science fiction conventions go together like rum and Coke. Which makes Balticon 42 about 180 proof. But hey, just because Balticon was chaotic and organizationally challenged in places doesn't mean it wasn't fun.
- Transferring ISPs… • October 29, 2007
…so things may be a wee bit rocky with the website for a day or two.
- Driving Language • August 29, 2007
The common hand gestures we use for car-to-car communication say a lot about our culture and linguistics in general.
- Hacked (And Not in That Cool Cyberpunk Kind of Way) • May 16, 2007
If you tried to visit my blog and/or my website this morning — or tried to read any of the feeds — you were likely greeted by a string of gibberish. (I mean, more gibberish than you usually find here.) If you were using an older browser or a browser with ludicrously bad security settings, [...]
- Tags vs. Categories • April 3, 2007
If you’ve looked at the meta line underneath the headlines on this blog recently, you might have noticed that I’ve started tagging on this blog.
I’m using a WordPress plug-in called Jerome’s Keywords, which puts a convenient text box for entering tags on your Compose page and then gives you lots of convenient functions to call [...]
- The DADA Detective • December 27, 2006
I found a very nice little review of Infoquake the other day on the LiveJournal of a fellow named David Milloway. David calls Infoquake “a truly compelling and unique future setting that mixes programming, bio-genetics (or bio/logics) and economic theory. It reads kinda like a libertarian capitalist Dune, if you swap out the Spice for [...]
- My Trip to France (Part 2: The Wrath of Cannes) • June 6, 2006
Some more of my (remarkably obvious) observations about the French.
- My Trip to France (Part 1) • June 1, 2006
I'm in France on vacation. Paris, to be exact. Literally across the street from the Louvre, to be more exact. Here are a few key things I've noticed about France, in no real order.
- The Game of “Ten Women” • May 16, 2006
There's a marvelous game embedded in Po Bronson's excellent 1997 book "The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest: A Silicon Valley Novel." It's really about taking risks and making gambles. It's about learning to make quick decisions and not regretting your mistakes.
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