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a beautiful post
You probably know I have no time for religion, so you might be puzzled by my great admiration for the Benedictine nun Joan Chittister. She is a very smart, humane person who has great insight that...
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Help stop racist evil
If, like me, you are disgusted by the two shades of evil being propagated by Australia's two old parties, please send a little money to help the Greens produce an advertisement to throw a little...
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unsatisfying quantum talk
As is my habit I had my dinner with a movie. This time it was one of the BrisScience lectures. Specifically, a talk by Prof Howard Wiseman given in October 2011, titled "Are We Living in the...
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Voyager 1 has entered interstellar space
We are an amazing species. Even with our insanities we are capable of such extraordinary greatness.Read a short piece by Carolyn Porco, who was on the Voyager imaging team and is in charge of the...
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date format
Time is important because of the way we have structured our lives so heavily around clocks and calendars. So why do we have such a haphazard attitude to writing dates down?Being a programmer I am...
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umart - either crooked or incompetent
Don't buy from umart.com.au. They appear to sell their customers' confidential details to spammers. I use a trick to see if sites that require my email address are misusing that info. My website allows...
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why a surveillance society is bad
I've noticed a surprising number of people think that the spooks bugging all phone calls and all internet traffic isn't really worth worrying about. "I'm not doing bad things, so why should I care?"...
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it sure is hard to stop zombies
The buggers have realised that they can't pass laws to censor the internet in the full light of day so they are now about to do it in secret, behind closed doors. Very democratic of them. We need to...
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Ellie Castellanos
Check out the amazing art of a very unusual young girl named Ellie Castellanos at http://www.elliecastellanos.com -- a website run by her Mum. I can hardly wait to see what the future brings for this...
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Jeez! The zombies are attacking again!
After we killed off CISPA more than a year ago the zombies are trying to resurrect it. A bunch of USA senators who are associated with the NSA want to bring in CISPA to grant the NSA even more powers....
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Jeri Ellsworth - castAR - augmented reality and virtual reality
Remember Jeri Ellsworth? Well, she's back with something truly wonderful. This electronics wizard has developed a revolutionary system for augmented reality that lets you make something like Star...
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"flying" finished! At last!
Well, it took far too long, and I have no idea what it is like, but I have finally finished my "flying" story.You can find it on my stories page:http://miriam-english.org/stories.htmlor go directly to...
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Amateur Scientist
I just now received my Amateur Scientist CDROM. It contains every one of the Amateur Scientist columns printed in Scientific American from 1928 to 2001 -- 73 years!!! When I was a kid this was the part...
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NaNoWriMo tomorrow!
I'm excited. I'd been panicking a bit as I'd been having difficulty mapping out my story. I mean, I already know what the story is about, but I needed a sequence to hang it from, to build it around....
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Companions - first chapter
Okay, the first chapter of Companions, my new story, is up on my site at:miriam-english.org/stories/Companions/It is quite a lot shorter than I'd expected, which is a bit of a worry. At this rate the...
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Companions - chapter 2
The second chapter of my story Companions is now online.Once again this chapter is quite a bit shorter than I'd expected. I'll definitely be finishing NaNoWriMo by writing a bunch of short stories...
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Companions - chapter 3
Chapter 3 of my story Companions is now online.This one is much shorter than the others. I didn't even make my writing target of 2,000 words written for the day because I spent a lot of the day doing...
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The day the Earth smiled
Remember, some months back the Cassini team was getting ready to turn its cameras back upon Saturn to take a mosaic of images that would show Saturn and its rings backlit by the sun? Remember that...
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Cory Doctorow in Melbourne next week!!!
Damn! This is one of those times I wish I was still in Melbourne.Cory Doctorow will be in Melbourne next week to do a series of events with the Center for Youth Literature of the State Library of...
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No wonder they were trying to keep the TPP secret
It turns out the TPP would basically destroy the internet and replace it with something totally controlled by giant corporations. The bastards want to do to the internet what was done to radio,...
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