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Commented on Wife of Japan's prime minister visited Venus in a space ship
It is funny (and telling) that someone else immediately thought of Nancy Reagan. She seems to have spent a LOT of time on some other planet....
Commented on How-To: Read George Orwell's 1984 on your Kindle
Or you could just buy an official (Kindle) edition instead of the unauthorized edition someone uploaded....
Commented on Synesthesia: new book by Dr. Richard Cytowic
This smells really interesting!...
Commented on If you lose your Amazon account, your Kindle loses functionality
While there are MANY things about the kindle that give me pause (The terms of service document is scary, and when I've e-mailed Amazon for clarification I've gotten nothing but canned responses that don't answer the questions) -- I have...
Commented on Fast Forward 2: original sf from the cutting edge, including "True Names," a novella by Benjamin Rosenbaum and me!
And again, for what it is worth: an HTML version based on the MSWord version. http://www.bowdoin.edu/~mmcderm2/true-names.html...
Commented on Fast Forward 2: original sf from the cutting edge, including "True Names," a novella by Benjamin Rosenbaum and me!
...and for what it is worth - when I open the original PDF, I get an error about missing embedded fonts, and I don't see any italics anyway... I'd never have know they were there, except for the comments above....
Commented on Fast Forward 2: original sf from the cutting edge, including "True Names," a novella by Benjamin Rosenbaum and me!
Here is a MS Word version - again, no italics, but most of the other formatting and section breaks: http://bowdoin.edu/~mmcderm2/true-names.doc...

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Teller commented on Wife of Japan's prime minister visited Venus in a space ship
Check, please....
benher commented on Wife of Japan's prime minister visited Venus in a space ship
Don't get me started on these crazies. What's up with the election this year? The "Happiness Realization Party" (kofukujitsugento - the Happy Science cult turned party who whitewashes their Wikipedia page regularly) is bad enough... but the Minshuto under Hatoyama (or political scandal tainted scuz-bucket Ozawa) is even more frightening - even if you don't include Hatoyama's ding-dong wife in the equation. Irresponsible embezzlement sloppily blamed on subordinates, cutting up the national flag to make a frankenstein version of their own Minshuto flag for rallies, and a national policy that will eventually reduce Japan to a minor Chinese colony in...
spookyone commented on If you lose your Amazon account, your Kindle loses functionality
In re: #8 People who spend LOTS of time in front of multipurpose screens all day have things like IM and email clients etc running in the background and can't read on a multipurpose screen because we'll get interrupted, like, every ten minutes and/or our short attention span will lead us away. (I'm pretty sure I've read Cory complain about this exact thing somewhere but I have no idea where or if I'm mixed up. Cory is just too many places and says too many things that make sense to me to be sure.) Almighty, this happens every time I...
Antinous / Moderator commented on If you lose your Amazon account, your Kindle loses functionality
Personally, if I had a BB complaint, it would be that posting an anonymous comment comes with what is clearly a threat. Moderator note: Huh?...
technogeek commented on If you lose your Amazon account, your Kindle loses functionality
Seconded: Huh? I post anonymously when I'm in too much of a hurry to sign in, or on rare occasions when I want to make a comment without my identity biasing how it is interpreted. No other significance. Sure, anonymous posting _can_ be misused (or could if the moderators permitted it), but I really don't think any threat is implied here on BB. Elsewhere, deponent saith not....

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