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Posts from January 2008

Last.fm Makes My Day

Last.fm, a “social music” site, has started streaming full tracks, from thousands of artists, for free. I’m listening to Springsteen’s new album right now. So happy.

Incidentally … is it me, or is “social” the new “i”? For a while there, back in the mid-late 90s, every other mildly internet-related product had a little “e” tacked [...]


Lies, Quantified

One thing that the Bush Administration does very well is lie. We’ve long known, in a sort of mushy intuitive way, that pretty much every single thing they told us on the runup to the war in Iraq was false, but now we have documentary evidence that quantifies the breadth of the deception. A study [...]


Monomania

If this blighted decade in American political history has taught us nothing else, it’s taught us this: we are governed by a pack of cretinous monomaniacs.

This was brought forcefully home to me when I read about the stimulus package that Bush proposed last week, to save us from the recession he’s spent the last six [...]


Lightning Strikes Twice

Holy crap. Weird Tales accepted another one of my stories. If there was an emoticon for “capering around room and hooting like a madman”, I’d definitely be using it right now. But there isn’t. I am struck, once again, by the stunted expressive power of emoticons.

The last time I got published was in high school, [...]


Bowel Support

My work computer decided to freeze up and eat itself last night, and this morning it wouldn’t boot. I pawed ineffectually at it for a while, then broke down and called IT. I haven’t had to do that in a while, so it took me some time to track down their contact info. It turned [...]


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2 January 2008 @ 8pm

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