6 month ago
deusx : Autopope! - Uh-oh - "I don't know, honestly. And for my purposes, I have a real headache if LJ goes titsup.com. I use LJ for private venting/diary/blogging to a restricted audience rather than my main public blog -- that's a business proposition and I can
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24 month ago
Simon Willison : Unpacking the Zeitgeist - Unpacking the Zeitgeist. On WoW corpse spamming: “There are thirty years’ worth of future shock condensed into this one news item [...] a harsh warning about the difficulty of accurately portraying plausible futures in literature.”
deusx : Charlie's Diary: Unpacking the Zeitgeist - "There are thirty years' worth of future shock condensed into this one news item."
Matthew M. Boedicker : trying to explain WoW corpse spamming to someone from 1977 - (via simonwillison) [via]
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30 month ago
deusx : Charlie's Diary: The writer's lifestyle - "Being a self-employed writer is not a lifestyle that suits everyone. In fact, there are a lot of misconceptions about what the job entails."
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deusx : A 2006 Interview with Charles Stross - "Thanks to the fine folks at the BBC in Edinburgh, their international relations division in London and KQED's Howard Gelman, we had more than an hour of time to discuss genre, genres and the ties that bind them together for Stross."
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49 month ago
deusx : Accelerando! - Accelerando available for download - "This free ebook edition is made available by kind consent of my publishers, Ace and Orbit, under a Creative Commons license with certain restrictions attached." Hooray! A book to read on my Visor until I get the paper edition!
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50 month ago
deusx : Future predictions - short term - "The following are some informal projections of possible technology-oriented developments that I made back in late 1999 to early 2000, while I was working on part two of "Accelerando" ("Troubadour"). "
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50 month ago
deusx : Accelerando! - "The text of "Accelerando" will be available for download under a Creative Commons license from this site later this month (June 2005)." Oh, goody!
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