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    An Experimental Study on the Role of Touch in Shared Virtual Environments

    This post originally appeared on an external website

    Posted by Jay Garmon | October 17, 2005, 1:46 PM PDT

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    Haptic Interfaces

    Haptics is concerned with information acquisition and object manipulation through touch. Haptics is used as an umbrella term covering all aspects of manual exploration and manipulation by humans...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | October 17, 2005, 1:46 PM PDT

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    John Scalzi has read my blog!

    Engage fanboy mode--> John Scalzi has read my blog! Cherie Priest has commented on the blog that talks about my blog! They both think I'm a flippin' idiot (which I am), but published...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | October 17, 2005, 8:18 AM PDT

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    I have no choice--I must write online

    Apparently, the trendy new way to get noticed by book publishers is to serialize your novel online and let the editors find you. I've noticed three examples of this very phenomenon recently:...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | October 14, 2005, 12:37 PM PDT

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    Another trivial mystery!

    I'm going on vacation next week, so I've got to get some ducks in a row for future Geek Trivias before I leave. Thus, I've narrowed the potential topics for the Nov. 9 edition to these eight...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | October 13, 2005, 1:57 PM PDT

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    I'm not cool enough for these t-shirts

    Actually, I just don't wear that many t-shirts anymore. I'm really a polos-and-button-downs kind of guy (read: painfully uptight). But if I did wear more t-shirts, I'd wear these: Category: Star...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | October 13, 2005, 11:01 AM PDT

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    My problem with Internet Federalism

    President Truman once admonished the U.S. House and Senate as a "do-nothing Congress" bent on stalling rather than taking action. While I'm a fan of Harry, I almost wish the do-nothing Congress...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | October 10, 2005, 7:24 AM PDT

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    The Just-In-Time Apocalypse

    More chilling genius from Charles Stross: "Our civilization runs on a much slimmer margin than most of us realize. As a cost-saving measure, the corporate policy of the past three decades has...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | October 7, 2005, 2:15 PM PDT

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    The Folksonomist's Library

    Yet another addition to the list of Web sites I thought up then realized someone had already built (this happens a lot): LibraryThing. Genius in its simplicity, LibraryThing lets you catalogue...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | October 5, 2005, 8:03 AM PDT

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    Will Ruby and AJAX kill MS Office?

    Almost overnight, a whole host of Web-based collaborative word processing programs--Office meets Wiki, if you will--have cropped up, most of them the product of either AJAX or Ruby development....

    Posted by Jay Garmon | October 4, 2005, 12:31 PM PDT

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    Caffeine Rage!

    Check out my new desktop wallpaper! Yet another reason to love PvP!

    Posted by Jay Garmon | October 4, 2005, 11:25 AM PDT

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    Name that Trivia!

    If anyone can guess which of these nine subjects will be the basis of the Oct. 19, 2005 edition of Geek Trivia--and can make a reasonable estimate of the question I will ask--then I'll send the...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | October 4, 2005, 10:45 AM PDT

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    Said goodbye to Serenity

    So, among various and sundry other fun times had this weekend, I made a special effort to go see Serenity. I liked it alot, and my wife loved it, but it truly felt more like a series finale for...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | October 3, 2005, 1:40 PM PDT | Latest comment by PurpleSkys

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    So who is going to see the "new Star Wars" AKA Serenity?

    Anybody who has been reading my blog knows that I'm going to see the movie Serenity this weekend. Rotten Tomatoes currently rates it as "80% Fresh" which means good. Just like...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | September 30, 2005, 2:00 PM PDT

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    NASA admits shuttle, ISS were mistakes

    NASA director Michael Griffin admits that the space shuttle and International Space Station (ISS) were terrible mistakes.

    Posted by Jay Garmon | September 29, 2005, 2:10 PM PDT

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    My long-rumored writing site

    So it occurs to me that I'm actually a terrible fiction writer. This does not make me unusual. It simply means I haven't "written the garbage out" as my buddy Anthony used to say--I need practice,...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | September 27, 2005, 11:12 AM PDT

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    Finished 'Snow Crash' yesterday

    After several weeks of erratic reading schedules, I finally finished Snow Crash. For the uninitiated, Snow Crash is Neal Stephenson's take on cyberpunk, and has been compared both to Thomas...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | September 26, 2005, 7:18 AM PDT

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    Adjusting the cost/benefits of war

    I'm not actually crazy enough to jump into the Iraq war debate on this blog, both because I need to maintain some political neutrality to do my job and also because some of the people in the TR...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | September 22, 2005, 12:28 PM PDT

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    Maybe I should take requests

    I need to take a second to send a shout out to member tundraroamer, who sent me a great idea for Geek Trivia question yesterday. If I can actually track down the answer to his question, it will...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | September 20, 2005, 7:07 AM PDT

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    Going to try and start some fires

    Anybody who spends a lot of time in the TechRepublic fourms has probably noticed that things have been a bit quiet for the last few months. A lot of factors have probably contributed to the lull,...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | September 15, 2005, 9:55 AM PDT

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