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OMNI Magazine Remembered
An anonymous reader noted that Slate is doing a bit of a retrospective on OMNI. If you're anything like me, reading it was a treat. At home I suffered through Popular Mechanics, but OMNI was what I wished I had. There's many interesting things in the article, like the fact that OMNI is the place where William Gibson first coined the term "Cyberspace."
It was like National Geographic and Heavy Metal had a baby. I used to love that magazine.
THL phish sticks
It lived with a solid core of futurism. Futurism is kind of dead now, now that we're using phones to surf the web and cops are using sonic weapons against crowds. The future's here and Omni guessed a lot of it right in the 70's and 80's.
Only if Letters to Penthouse could be this accurate. BRB. Pizza delivery girl is here.
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
and global warming will mean no more shoveling of snow.
Tell that to my driveway!
Actually, there's a tech way to handle driveway snow. Google for "driveway snowmelt system". A heated driveway will take care of all that pesky snow, and help ensure global warming for the rest of the planet with the wasted energy. :)
Actually, Wikipedia says that automatic systems are fairly efficient, only running while snow is falling at your driveway.
I don't know how long they've been available, or how good they are. I don't live in snow country. Gimme a robot that'll clean up after a hurricane, and I'd be happy. Hmmm, the car is upside down in the neighbors yard, but his roof is in mine. Fair trade.
Serious? Seriousness is well above my pay grade.
My parents didn't allow me to subscribe to OMNI because it was a Penthouse publication.
Unlike my friends, who all had stashes of porn that they hid, I had stashes of Omni.
It's sad to grow up as a geek.
Yes, those Alien Chicks were hot.
Yes, those Alien Chicks were hot.
Dude. It was a Penthouse publication. The letters to the editor weren't real!
You can melt snow in your driveway just by looking at. It may take a few months, 'tho
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Careful, with attitudes like that, you may get deported to Cyberia.
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