Pravane holds the claim to be the first published SteamPunk work. You can read a full review of the book here.
Comprising a cycle of linked stories set in Dorset, England, it depicts a 1968 in which the Roman Catholic Church still has supremacy; in its timeline, Protestantism was destroyed during wars that resulted from the [...]

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I knew about the memory limit in Windows XP before I went ahead and upped the memory in my Mac from 2GB to 4GB. I just knew that XP would not manage to cope with 4GB even though the limit on 32bit (standard) Windows XP is 4GB. This is because, in Microsoft’s words:
The physical address [...]

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37 queued posts. I need to actually start publishing something at some point.

Tags: art

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Just OMG …

Tags: application, dancing, humour, street fighter

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Create online checklists with checkser. When you’ve made them, share them out for others to use. I’m something of a checklist fan, so I appreciate this website, even if I’m late to the party. So what checklists already exist?
Setting up a blog
Facebook Closure
Moving Home
Self Management
Divorce
Cosplay
How to review a book
Home Buyer Checklist
Things to do when buying [...]

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Tell them what you are going to say.
Say what you intend to say.
Tell them what you just said.
MIT prof Patrick Winston gives an infamous annual talk called “How to Talk,” a lecture on how to give good lectures. It’s open to students and, apparently the public. This 1999 version of the talk (pre-Powerpoint!) is filled [...]

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Wired has a nice piece on the state of Privacy in America - expect none under Bush.
President Bush has failed to nominate candidates for a congressionally empowered privacy board intended to police anti-terrorism programs.
Photo: AP / Monsivais
The Bush administration has failed to nominate any candidates to a newly empowered privacy and civil-liberties commission. This leaves [...]

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I just bought my PAX 2008 tickets, for all three days. Anyone else going who reads CR? Would be fun to meet any of the CR faithful :)
If you fancy meeting up at PAX leave a message on here or use the contact form and let me know.
If you have no idea what PAX is [...]

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