Carl Rigney

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• Commented on Bank-robbers' demand notes
  Gordon Dillow and William J. Rehder wrote a fascinating book Where the Money Is: True Tales from the Bank Robbery Capital of the World that goes into a lot of detail on bank robberies. The title's taken from Willie Sutton's...
• Commented on Jonathan Worth tries out a copy-friendly photography business-experiment
  I agree it's pleasing to have different prices. Even if someone did beat me to buying Page 1. (Was it Shuttleworth again? Shuttlewooooorth!) It's a little sad the local school has to turn to donations for new buildings, when the...
• Commented on Hugo Award winners and statsporn!
  Thanks for posting that! I was rooting for Little Brother but can't be sad that The Graveyard Book won; it was great too. Could you post a copy of your Prometheus Award speech, which was itself slathered in awesomesauce? Was...
• Commented on Swine Flu Q & A
  Stephan Zielinski FTW on remix culture! I'm loading it on my iPod for tomorrow's plane flight. I wonder what smallpox sounds like?...
• Commented on Swine Flu Q & A
  It's a cytokine media storm! Flee to the hills!!...
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• Favorited Bruce Sterling's The Caryatids, my pick for best book of 2009, a novel of clear-eyed hope for the future on Boing Boing
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