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That 3% Keeps 'Em Honest

That 3% Keeps ‘Em Honest

I both love public media and company-wide email discussions. Today I was abusing company-wide emailing authority to send out the latest PBS OffBook video on 3D Printing. As a snarky aside, I mentioned that people should watch the video because their tax dollars paid for it. A developer quickly responded with a link to the [...]

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Thoughts About Robots

Thoughts About Robots

I realized this morning that I spend way too much time thinking about robots. I don’t just mean the fun robots like the droids from Star Wars. Or how I really really want a Roomba. Or watching movies and tv shows about robots in them. Or reading a lot of sci fi. I mean big [...]

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A System and Method For…

A System and Method For…

In Which Bradley Writes A Laymen Patent As A Means of Bitching About Something Glasshouse Preface I make typos. Frequently. Epically. There are probably going to be several in this post. What follows is not a chastisement of manmade typos, but rather a system for removing machine-made ones. Author Preface I am a big fan [...]

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More Than One Way To Share a Story

More Than One Way To Share a Story

If you’re nerd enough, you know the true test of any new social media solution – can you play D&D with it? And nerds can be pretty quick in picking up on whether a medium supports the needs of the game.   Some folks in publishing don’t seem to be as quick on this. Case [...]

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Fear Is Not a Business Plan

Fear Is Not a Business Plan

I like Futurebook.net, I really do. They tend to write on point commentary about, as the name might suggest, the future of books. But since Waterstones agreed to start selling Kindles, the folks at Futurebook seem to have embraced the old guard tactic of hating Amazon. This obviously bears repeating: hating Amazon is not a [...]

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More Massive Effect

More Massive Effect

I fell hard for Mass Effect. Sure, the gameplay might have been monotonous at times, but the story was epic. I mean epic in the classical literary sense of the word and the story played in a way that really focused on the strengths of video games. That is to say, in game decisions had [...]

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Today In Censorship

Today In Censorship

Couple of stories have bubbled across my desk today both with a common thread that I personally disdain. The first, a story that seemed to break in Mother Jones last night, is that the famed TED lecture series was holding back a video on what could, but shouldn’t, be a controversial topic – the impact [...]

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Twitter Extremes

Twitter Extremes

So, this just happened. two pieces of horrible news back-to-back. In manual retweet form, no less.

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The Power of Memes

The Power of Memes

Last week, I had the pleasure of attending what turned out to be the third and final ROFLcon. On the surface, a convention about memes seems like a silly attempt to turn internet yucks into real world lulz. And while it’s true that I can now say, “I sat next to Tron guy,” or “I [...]

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Go Right

As a baby of the 80s, this video will bring back the memories. As a fan of mashup art, you gotta admit that this is pretty well done. This music is Michael Nyman’s “A Wild And Distant Shore”. Here’s hoping that someone isn’t being a copyright douche.

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