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How big is a trillion dollars?

I saw an article yesterday that tried to break down the idea of a trillion dollars into something the reader...

Jed

January 28, 2009
9 Comments

This week’s SH fiction: “The Shangri-La Affair”

Last week and this week at Strange Horizons: A two-part story, "The Shangri-La Affair," by Lavie Tidhar, in which a...

Jed

January 26, 2009
Filed under: Strange Horizons
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Another day, another bogus security measure

Wells Fargo provides online access to mortgage accounts. That's cool, and useful. After you log in to your account, on...

Jed

January 25, 2009
Filed under: Customer Service Demon, Housing
2 Comments

Desk chair

I've had a semi-broken desk chair at home for years. A friend's company was getting rid of a bunch of...

Jed

January 25, 2009
Filed under: Customer Service Demon, Life Updates
2 Comments

Images roundup

Still clearing out browser windows: Happy Birthday, "Earthrise"--this past December 24 was the 40th anniversary of Apollo 8's capturing of...

Jed

January 25, 2009
Filed under: Art
1 Comment

Video roundup

I've got to clear out my browser windows. I'll start with some videos: Assorted time-lapse clips of the sky (sun,...

Jed

January 25, 2009
Filed under: Net Video, Television
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Free Oscar-nominated animated short

The list of Oscar nominees was released a couple days ago. Among the nominees for best animated short film is...

Jed

January 25, 2009
Filed under: Movies, Net Video
4 Comments

Welcome back to Temptation

The other night I was stressed and unhappy, and found myself reading through some old journal entries, one of which...

Jed

January 24, 2009
Filed under: Books, Humor, Sex
2 Comments

Inventing the Wheel

In science fiction stories, there are certain ideas and tropes that writers who aren't well-read in the history of the...

Jed

January 24, 2009
Filed under: Speculative Fiction
9 Comments

Obama action figures, and comic book

Someone pointed to online photos of a great Obama action figure the other day. Unfortunately, the page at gamu-toys.info where...

Jed

January 23, 2009
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President Obama

I've always had mixed feelings about Obama. I thought I had written a journal entry back in 2004 about watching...

Jed

January 22, 2009
3 Comments

Items: assorted videos

Some videos with no connecting theme: Drawdio: Turn Almost Anything Into a Theremin. Make electronic music by drawing on a...

Jed

January 18, 2009
Filed under: Gadgets, Music, Net Video, Politics, Queer
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