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    Katrina's small silver lining, via tech

    From USA Today: Ugly as she was, Katrina may have given BellSouth a rare opportunity: the chance to turn one of the oldest cities in the USA into a showcase for 21st-century communications. Talk...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | September 13, 2005, 2:08 PM PDT

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    Amazon now accepts loose change

    From Techdirt: Jeff Bezos wants your spare change. Amazon.com has teamed up with Coinstar, the folks who put those machines in supermarkets everywhere and try to get you to dump your change...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | September 13, 2005, 8:36 AM PDT

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    Own a piece of Serenity

    Something that matters only to me, from CBR: [Artist] Adam Hughes wants to get people to see "Serenity," for which he's doing the cover for the collected [comic book trade paperback]...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | September 13, 2005, 7:42 AM PDT

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    The Ego Coven, or The Problem with Writers Groups

    Okay, so I've hit a bit of a lull in my writing (various reasons why) and have tossed around the idea of joining a local writers group to jumpstart the process. My fear is that this group will...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | September 12, 2005, 10:24 AM PDT

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    Beware...I live!

    Sorry to disappoint, boys and girls, but I survived my weeklong repast in the wilds of the Florida Panhandle. No, I didn't finish either of the books I took along (though I'm a fair way into Snow...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | September 12, 2005, 7:16 AM PDT

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    Vacation reading...

    Being the Machiavellian genius that we all know I truly am, I've reckoned on taking a week's vacation right after Labor day, so I only burn four paid days of off time. Okay, so it was my wife's...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | September 2, 2005, 2:05 PM PDT

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    Getting pragmatic about space flight

    Monte Cook--a pragmatist much like myself, only smarter and far more successful--has authored a four-part series at Space.com that articulates several points I have often wished to voice when...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | September 2, 2005, 1:56 PM PDT

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    Dork Tower adds Katrina perspective

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    Posted by Jay Garmon | September 2, 2005, 12:58 PM PDT

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    Unfiltered view of Katrina

    Wired posted a link to Michael Barnett's LiveJournal. Barnett stayed behind in New Orleans to keep the lights on at a local server hosting company, and he's been keeping a very frequently updated...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | September 1, 2005, 2:12 PM PDT

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    Last bastion of dorkdom falls--WIRED discovers filking

    A few weeks ago, when I blogged at length about my stint at the local sci-fi/fantasy convention, my buddy Paul Sisler asked "you don't LARP and you don't play dressup, but do you Filk?" My answer...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | September 1, 2005, 10:41 AM PDT

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    Geek Trivia - Four years and counting

    Tomorrow is something of a significant anniversary for yours truly. On Aug. 31, 2001, the first issue of Geek Trivia that I authored was published. Those of you around in the old days will recall...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | August 30, 2005, 8:44 AM PDT

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    The Earth in retreat, with pics

    From Futurismic: "As it headed out toward Mercury, the MESSENGER probe took a series of shots of the Earth receding over the period of one full rotation. The shots have been compiled into a movie...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | August 29, 2005, 10:55 AM PDT

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    Where the future gets blowed up...

    Okay, between the Discovery Channel, Popular Science, and James Cameron movies, we all know that unknown scientists are as we speak spending billions of tax-payer dollars designing the newest and...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | August 25, 2005, 2:43 PM PDT

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    My new e-mail signature...

    Ever watchful Beth Blakely sent me this link from the fanboy blog TeeVee.org, which led me immediately to consider this quote as my new personal e-mail signature: "Then again, IÂ’ve also been...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | August 24, 2005, 10:01 AM PDT | Latest comment by CharlieSpencer_Palmetto

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    Windows 95...Ten Years Later

    Tomorrow is the tenth anniversary of the retail release of Windows 95. I can't tell you how hard it was to resist that as a Geek Trivia topic, but I'm certain that every major tech news outlet is...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | August 23, 2005, 2:23 PM PDT

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    Manuscript disposable, pt. 2

    Well, I am now the proud owner of two Asimov's magazine rejection letters. Yesterday, I finally got smacked down for the space vampire story I submitted on July 14. I currently don't have another...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | August 23, 2005, 7:29 AM PDT

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    Save Geek Trivia...and the Wikipedia

    My week is pretty jammed working on a "secret project" for TechRepublic. As such, I'm having trouble deciding which of these 13 items to use as the basis for the Sept. 7 edition of Geek Trivia....

    Posted by Jay Garmon | August 22, 2005, 1:40 PM PDT

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    Finally writing again

    I finally started writing again last night, after the long, painful fallout from my infamous Asimov's magazine rejection letter. Strangely, this story is based on a bolt of inspiration I got last...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | August 17, 2005, 2:08 PM PDT

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    Returning to "normalcy"

    For those wondering, yes, I did in fact survive my stint at the local science fiction convention. It was fun, but horrifically exhausting. I lived on little sleep and lots of caffeine--this con...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | August 16, 2005, 10:49 AM PDT

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    Dropping off the grid for a few days!

    I'll be absent from the blogosphere (and civilized society) for the next few days. I'm on staff of the local sci-fi convention, which starts tomorrow and runs through Sunday, so I'll be eschewing...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | August 11, 2005, 1:34 PM PDT

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