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Mary Weilage

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    Real estate bubble leads to sci-fi civic planning

    If this doesn't prove that there's a massively overinflated real estate market bubble in the U.S., I don't know what will. Apparently, completing 6.2 miles of the 710 freeway between Pasadena and...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | August 10, 2005, 2:05 PM PDT | Latest comment by jmgarvin

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    Moviegoers want quality? No fair!

    A few snarky anti-Hollywood blogs picked up on an LA Times piece where movie producers try to figure out why Hollywood is massively tanking at the box office this year. My personal favorite is how...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | August 9, 2005, 2:30 PM PDT

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    Bought a new car this weekend

    Forgot to mention that my wife got a new car this weekend. She insists on calling it "our car" but since she drives it and all her stuff is in it, I'm pretty sure its her car. It's a 2005 Toyota...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | August 9, 2005, 7:18 AM PDT | Latest comment by jdclyde

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    Blog spam is the spawn of the devil

    When we show up this morning, an occasionally annoying spammer who had once or twice tried to use our blog platform to sell crappy imported bathroom scales, prom dresses, and pearl jewelry had...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | August 9, 2005, 7:05 AM PDT

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    Google blacklists the TR mothership

    From slashdot: "Cnet News.com is reporting that Google is no longer talking to Cnet reporters. In an article about the search company looking for new executive chefs, the article states: 'Google...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | August 5, 2005, 1:10 PM PDT

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    All roads lead to Geek Trivia

    It occurred to me the other day that are a staggering number of ways to find all my old Geek Trivia columns. So much so that we may need to start syncing up and deduplicating our efforts. These...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | August 5, 2005, 11:43 AM PDT

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    Can you copyright a universe?

    Okay, so I've been tooling around with story ideas for the last couple of days, and I find they all revolve around time travel. The one that has me most excited right now--mostly because it is...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | August 4, 2005, 8:27 AM PDT

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    CafePress + Randon House = Lulu

    From SmartMobs: "'...Lulu - allows authors to upload their manuscripts onto the site, where they can be printed off and sold individually as and when wanted. The same principal applies to other...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | August 2, 2005, 11:32 AM PDT

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    My muses exposed

    Contrary to what recent posts may imply, I have not given up on writing. In fact, I'm currently building a vault of "Loose Ideas" (a phrase I stole from Warren Ellis) to use as inspiration and...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | August 1, 2005, 2:23 PM PDT

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    Fresh, new sci-fi daily...for a year

    From WarrenEllis.com: "365 tomorrows is a collaborative project designed to present readers with one new piece of short speculative fiction each day for one year." Yes, they have an RSS feed....

    Posted by Jay Garmon | August 1, 2005, 9:52 AM PDT

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    Manuscript disposable

    Well, after seven weeks and one day, the Asimov's rejection letter finally arrived yesterday. It's odd. I expected to be far more disappointed than I actually was. I guess having almost two months...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | July 29, 2005, 7:14 AM PDT

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    The two-edged sword of DRM

    As an aspiring writer, I have fond hope that one day my trite, banal scribblings will be worth enough money to justify a copyright, so I have more than a passing interest in Digital Rights...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | July 28, 2005, 8:30 AM PDT

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    The unwisdom of crowds

    James Surowiecki has disputed the wisdom of crowds, even though he literally wrote the book on the subject. To be more accurate, Surowiecki criticizes people who misapply the term, or who simply...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | July 26, 2005, 10:50 AM PDT

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    The dark side of Google Maps hacks

    From SmartMobs: "Hot or Not profiles + Google Maps = photos of people mapped to the neighborhoods where they live: http://apps.hotornot.com/jeff/ Why does this creep me out? Fasten your seatbelts...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | July 26, 2005, 7:58 AM PDT

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    Global tagging continues apace

    Tagzania is a Google Maps hack that let's you create tagged locations anywhere in the world, and surf other user-tagged meatspace locales based on common tags. For example, the burrito tag will...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | July 25, 2005, 8:35 AM PDT

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    Global wiki-tization continues apace

    From boingboing: "London's Ravensbourne College is creating a new program called the School of Computing for the Creative Industries. The whole of the coursewear is Creative Commons licensed and...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | July 25, 2005, 8:12 AM PDT

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    The two most overused blog words

    As I've mentioned previously, I play around a lot with keyword extractor tech like tagcloud, usually to extract metathemes from RSS feeds. I really like doing this with blogs--it's like a tuned...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | July 21, 2005, 7:33 AM PDT

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    Lunar madness from Google

    As noted in today's Geek Trivia, this is the 36th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. In commemoration of the event, Google maps has gone lunar, giving you Google Moon. Is it useful? Maybe...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | July 20, 2005, 7:02 AM PDT

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    Battlestar Galactica and the "new" sci-fi

    The second season of the new Battlestar Galactica debuted Friday, smack in the middle of the San Diego International Comic-Con, granddaddy of all sci-fi/comic/collectible conventions. Not...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | July 18, 2005, 10:38 AM PDT

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    Why there is no point to TechPoints

    For a long time, I was a big fan of the TechPoints system at work in or Technical Q&A forums. I loved the idea of a virtual economy, and preached for quite a while that all we had to do was...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | July 15, 2005, 10:37 AM PDT

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