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Free online writing workshop from the author of Fight Club. Worth checking out I think; though that’s an after work job.

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Whipping through Metafilter someone used this old quote:
Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster,
and if you gaze into the Abyss, the Abyss gazes also into you - Nietzsche
Not heard that in an age and ties in with the planning of my first novel so i thought I record it here.
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Ananova - Japanese scientist invents ‘invisibility cloak’
This is great, Gibson would be proud. Now, where’s my flying car eh?

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I’m working on the company Word to PDF conversion system, my budget = £0.00
Giggle.
Thank you open source software.
For the record I’m proposing the following:
AFPL Ghostscript v8.14 s7.2MB License Freeware
Ghostview v4.6 s1.6MB License AFPL, variation on the GPL or straight GPL
HP 4500 LJ Postscript driver License Freeware
(www.ghostscript.com/)
Ghostword License v2.10 s1.3MB Freeware
(www.et.dtu.dk/Software/GhostWord/Index.html)
For basic, non-encrypted, PDF creation from [...]

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CHUD - Cinematic Happenings Under Development
When I get time, which means never, I need to go through this and list the good ones.
A film that leaps out on this list is ‘The Iron Giant’, great film, nice script and wonderfully drawn. Bombed utterly and no-one watched it. I guess it was too early, just a [...]

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Slashdot | Methane on Mars?
“Two independent groups are claiming the detection of methane in the Martian atmosphere, one using the Mars Express orbiter, and the other using ground based telescopes. This detection, if confirmed, would be of great significance for the search of life on Mars, as Methane will not last long in the Martian [...]

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Google Press Center: Zeitgeist
Googlefact: Noun, the acceptance of a information from google by reading search results without clicking links
OK so I invented a new term, sue me.
Oddly the term “Google” is used in “The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams, in which one of Deep Thought’s designers asks, “And are you not,” said [...]

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The Powerbook I bought is the old model, it didn’t come with the iLife suite of applications. So today I rang Apple and checked model numbers and so on. Then rang the store and played hell with them. It seems like they ran out of the new ones so started selling the old ones and [...]

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