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Neal Stephenson's The Confusion Released
Jon Lasser writes "Neal Stephenson's 'The Confusion', second volume of his Baroque Cycle is released today. I received an advance copy and have a book review up here. The hypertext site for the trilogy is here. The short review: if you liked 'Quicksilver', this one is better; if you didn't, don't bother."
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I must be out of the loop here, but can someone explain to me why this is front page news?
- 04.11.2004: White House Releases President Bush's Personal Copy of Declassified Daily Intelligence Briefing for August 6th, 2001:
It's funny cause it's true."I know the American people will agree I did the right thing, when after reading that ridiculously vague memo filled with specific references to an al Qaeda attack, I promptly skipped town for thirty fun-filled days of golf, jogging, and naps!"
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does stuff blow up?
Drinking habits can be dangerous. You can choke on the cloth and the nuns will wonder where their clothes are.
the more important question is... Does it support OGG?
Except for the part about being true.
I'm completely off-topic, but I'm gonna get this out there in this thread anyway: the notion of a presidential vacation is a fucking joke. The president is on vacation right now; he's was at his ranch yesterday. What did he do? He got up before sunrise for about half a dozen of his regular daily briefings. He met with senior staff over breakfast. He made about a hundred phone calls. And, oh yeah, he spent half the day with the president of Egypt.
And that's a day off.
I think it's about time we put the whole "presidential vacation" meme to bed.
I write in my journal
Sounds like you have some kind of sexual insecurity.
I enjoyed reading about Turing's sexuality in Crypto*, what a shame that in real life he was hurt professionaly by his sexual orientation
Gay rights are an important issue, don't pretend like it's not. Are you also of the opinion that there is no race problem in the world? SHould we not talk about it? I say, talk about it as much as possible.
Maybe you should take some social science classes, put down the sci-fi and go outside.
Neal Stephenson is a Debian user. See for yourself. I once saw a quote that he liked Debian because of the huge number of bugs in the database. (He liked that Debian is open - not that it has a huge number of bugs ;-))
Anyone remember that song? From the rave in Blade.
Confusion by New 0rder. Best. Rave. Ever.
True story.
I don't care what you do. It has nothing to do with homosexuality. Plenty of queers don't do it at all. Plenty of straights do.
If you consider this a moral issue, and want to divide things up based upon sexuality, lesbians are probably the only ones with a moral high ground.
IHBT. IHL. HAND.
There are no trails. There are no trees out here.