Archive of 2008 July

Great Opening Sentences in Science Fiction

on July 27th, 2008 in Books by | 1 Comment

“I lived long enough to see the cure for death; to see the rise of the Bitchun Society, to learn ten languages; to compose three symphonies; to realize my boyhood dream of taking up residence in Disney World; to see the death of the workplace and of work.” — Cory…

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Zombie Dating Site: Zombie Harmony

on July 25th, 2008 in Avenging, Links by | 2 Comments

There’s a great new dating site online…for zombies! Hurry and join zombieharmony.com! I wonder if eHarmony will be as cool as Linden Lab was about parodies? Linden sent the maker of a Second Life parody the opposite of a Cease and Desist letter. Since, like most sane people, they realized…

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Municipal compost

on July 19th, 2008 in Environment, San Francisco by | 3 Comments

San Francisco, my adopted home, offers a municipal compost service. They give you a big green wheeled garbage bin, and you can toss in everything from coffee grounds to wooden crates. It’s not gross, like home-composting, in that you don’t have a huge bag of festering goop in your house….

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I’m so goddamn cool

on July 15th, 2008 in Avenging by | 2 Comments

Sitting here in my lavish office. Wearing a kimono. On a chair that I made. The chair has a wagging tail. Oh, and I’m a frog. Did I mention I’m a frog? I work for Second Life. I can do whatever I want. As long as someone is willing to…

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Scribefire Rocketh

on July 15th, 2008 in Interface design, Tech by | 2 Comments

I’m using a Firefox plugin called Scribefire to post this. Apparently I’m too lazy to fire up WordPress and write something for you guys, but if the text box is sitting at the bottom of my browser screen, I’m happy to start writing. Usability. Go figure. I spend every day…

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