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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Paperbacks Plus in Dallas, Texas, USA, originally uploaded by Jay Dugger. Google Map here, with KML also available. This used book store also sells video tapes, CDs, magazines, and some LP records. These last included a

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } for-sale, originally uploaded by Just a Pilgrim. Heh, heh. That joke will turn serious when Bigelow Aerospace starts leasing volume on their inflatable space stations. Did you know they have not one, but two test stations

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Blogging goes on hold until I move to Texas. That should finish in June 2008's second week.

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Over on the left sidebar, you see an inset Google Map showing the last location read from the GPS receiver in my phone and reported by ipoki client. What's ipoki? From ipoki's FAQ: Ipoki lets you share your current location with others in real-time. Also, you can see where your friends are and track them on Google Maps and Google Earth. Ipoki lets you keep track of your routes and use it to

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Everything Out, Topside, originally uploaded by Jay Dugger. My three-year old, much used laptop from Widow PC finally broke early last Saturday morning. I decided to disassemble it and see if I could make any repairs.

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Mushroom Ravioli, originally uploaded by Jay Dugger. I really enjoy this dish, and I rarely eat anything else from the restaurant's menu. I like food porn best when it vividly reminds me of the meal. Cravings have little

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Dr. Albert Hofmann lived one hundred and two years, a very long time for a human of his era, and he changed lives.

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The day I started using multiple computers introduced me to the now-common problem of data mis-match. Information needed at one machine might exist on another machine. Worse, I might not know which machine had the data I needed. Worse yet, I might have no way to synchronize information across the machines I used. I've tried various ladders to climb out of these data oubliettes. Keeping $HOME

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Surreal Advertising Caught My Eye, originally uploaded by Jay Dugger. I saw this today while visiting Subterranean Books in the University City district of Saint Louis, Missouri. The shop has a bubble machine mounted just

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Put out cat for night. Remember opossum in neighborhood. Follow cat into yard. Cat runs. Chase cat. Cat runs behind bushes. Chase cat. Cat zigs. Human zigs. Cat zags. Human finds two-foot high angle iron stake with right shin. Cat runs. Human swears; neighbors complain. --- I know this story really happened. My leg yet hurts.

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Match Material to the Audience, originally uploaded by Jay Dugger. If your first impulse leads you to a complicated tool or to a sophisticated answer, stop. Think about your audience's needs and goals. A simple

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If I name your favorite, suck it up. Good technique, needs imagination Margaret Atwood and Orson Scott Card Only technical writers admire clear, simple, succinct prose telling a completely predictable tale. Masters of the obvious Ayn Rand and Noam Chomsky Despite my sympathies, Rand's writing preaches too loudly for this reader. I find Chomsky useful, both for his work on linguistics

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Original at the Arts, Media and Engineering Blog, and very kindly brought to my attention by Becky Stern of Sternlabs and of the Arts, Media and Engineering program at Arizona State University. The video shows Leah Buechley, a postdoctoral researcher in the Craft Technology Group at U.C. Boulder, who presented her lecture on "Computational Textiles as Handcrafted Personal Computers" on

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flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Bahrain's Grand Mosque as a Mosaic of Flowers, originally uploaded by Jay Dugger. Compare and contrast with the source photograph. Technical Notes Collect small images by searching for Flickr tags. I used the tag macro

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Arthur C. Clarke's obituary appeared on the BBC's web site today. He lived ninety years, and his work predicted communication satellites and space elevators. He lived to see the former, but not the latter. This puts him ahead of other visionaries, such as Gerard O'Neill, who did not live to see their predictions realized. This news doesn't surprise me. It does leave me sad. The view from the top

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Location Pillars Work!, originally uploaded by Jay Dugger. Second Life interests me for two reasons. One, it allows cheap telepresence. I usually only go to lectures in Second Life, in fact. The SL Shakespeare Company does

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Misuse of certain words disproportionately annoys me. In particular, "impact" does not mean "affect." For hell's sake! "impact" names an English noun, not a verb. I just read a sentence with this error. I almost instantly thought, "I need a proxy server to rewrite web pages with this mistake." I immediately decided against that, and not because of laziness. Filters in general destroy information.

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Don't just take my word for it. Read James Oberg's piece over at The Space Review.

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Take that, vi!

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At approximately 10:26 p.m. EST, Feb. 20, a U.S. Navy AEGIS warship, USS Lake Erie (CG-70), fired a single modified tactical Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) hitting the satellite approximately 133 nautical miles over the Pacific Ocean as it traveled in space at more than 17,000 mph. USS Decatur (DDG-73) and USS Russell (DDG-59) were also part of the task force.-- from "Navy Succeeds In Intercepting

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Earlier today I checked my Flickr account's statistics. I do this to learn which images interest people, and by proxy what I do that interests others. A picture from January 2007 showed a recent spike in its view count. I tracked most of the views to a BNET.COM blog post on business uses for metadata. This post used the image of an old-fashioned library catalog card as an example of metadata.

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Theme Sequences, originally uploaded by Jay Dugger. This graph illustrates a discussion of role-playing game themes on the Delta Green Mailing List. Thirty-two hundred words makes to long a post to copy here. Each node

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I keep only two holidays all year long. On a skipped holiday's occasion I usually feel some obligation to explain why. No one asks me my reason for skipping St. Valentine's Day. This makes the only--the one and only--good thing about this holiday. I'd like the event much better if we celebrated St. Valentine's Day in this fashion. Leave a comment if you get the joke and know the reference.

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If you use CiteULike, Compendium, CMapTools, FreeMind, or Zotero, please leave a comment. I'd like to discuss their uses with you.

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