@34, what Librarian character?

I doubt Cory would be doing all of this work on donating copies of the book simply out of guilt for a walk-on mention of the school library. That whole section goes along with all the other discussions of the lack of privacy at school for the kids in the book. Nothing to feel guilty about. Perhaps you are simply sensitive to some sort of mention of your profession that doesn't paint all members of it in glowing terms?

All right. I'll have to consider that after I get out of term paper hell in the next two weeks. Maybe I'll help them get a real blog going if they want the aid.

It's too bad SFinSF doesn't offer RSS feeds for their content so people could subscribe to these notices... Someone should introduce them to this new-fangled blogging thing.

I haven't made it to a single event since the one with you, Cory, since I almost always hear about them *after* the event has happened.

The people that are whining about "self-promotion" should get a grip.

As others have pointed out, this is, at least partially, Cory's blog. He only has a book come out every year and a half or so. It isn't like he is promoting a new book here every quarter (though I wouldn't mind).

It seems reasonable for one of the authors of this blog to promote his new books when they come out every couple of years.

When was the last time the presence of a group of cops made a group of citizens feel safe?

#13, That's BS. Read the article. It was a no exit shaft with him quite a ways up it. Unless you're Chuck Norris, you aren't climbing out of that elevator (and how are you going to get out without tools)?

The real issue, as the article shows, is that EIGHT different security guards didn't even notice a problem on the security feed. That feed of the elevators is human monitored (at least on a theoretical level) and no one noticed an issue for nearly two days.

I have friends who need insulin, etc. who could easily have died in there.

Zuzu, I know the guys that work on Tor. They even came to Mozilla to give a presentation on Tor and ways to make it work better with Firefox.

I've never heard of I2P and see no reason to trust it. For all I know, it is run by the Department of Homeland Security.

Kyle,

The Saul Williams album is great. I don't know what you listened to but it obviously wasn't the same album that I heard (and that Trent loved...).

Oh, and I paid the $5 for it and then when the site problems locked me out of downloading my 320-bitrate content (too many downloads now), I got it from bittorrent. In any case, I gave Trent his requested fee so I don't feel bad about getting it off of his site.

There is no mixed message here. Trent has been pretty clear, if you actually look at interviews he's done recently, about wanting to be able to make a living without screwing over his fans. The only confusion here is yours.

Whoknew: Who cares? What difference does it make what her personal position is on the Kosovo issue. That isn't what this post is really about.

Congratulations!

That is quite a name collection for the child to live up to! May she do so.

Takuan, why?

Mike says:

2)Secrecy. All other religions are about spreading the word of God. This is not. This is about using their texts to create a world they see as preferrable. Whether that means informing others or not. Which leads to three.

Mike, I'm a Buddhist. "God" has nothing to do with my religion. A singular, monotheist "God" has little to do with many world religions. Let's try to look outside of the Judeo-Christian mindset (including Islam) once in a while. :-)

They laid off nearly 2/3 of their staff on Tuesday.

They animated it and also their Youtube response to their own video.

Wow. I knew that she'd been fighting cancer but I'd been under the impression that she was winning or holding her own.

Anita and I used to work together and she was always there with a funny quip. She recently gave me advice on where to stay in Japan as she and Jack visited the country just before my wife and I did.

She'll be missed.

I thought Timothy Leary demonstrated this back in the day or did it not count because he was merely a U.S. citizen physically in another country and not a non-U.S. citizen?

Some people are advocating a boycott of writers who are members of SFWA in an effort to get fence sitters to either leave the organization or explicitly stay (and therefore endorse Burt and his policies).

Why even stay a member at this point? Tobias Buckell resigned today, effective immediately.

Yeah, because Boing Boing could never link to the Daily Mail. That's a horrible endorsement of some obscure British politics or something...

The Other Michael, two weeks versus 15 or 16 years? Hyperbole much? I was an undergraduate in college when this place was busted. I'm in my mid-30s now with a nearly 10 year old daughter.

I do agree it is an interesting place. I was, personally, more objecting to the title focusing on the "seizing" of the site since that happened when kids currently in high school were being born.

Marcuspierce, go to Amazon.com and search on "Damanhur". They list at least five books in relation to this group, including a book just on the Temples of Humankind and their construction. This isn't a hoax but is old news.

The "seizing" part was current news about 15 or so years ago...

I've written a blog post about this but the media basically rediscovers Damanhur about every two or three years and then forgets about them again.

I have less a problem with the flights as I do with the process AROUND the flights.

Let's look at the times for my typical West Coast jaunt between my current home in Oakland and Seattle, where my daughter and old friends live:

Drive to Oakland Airport - 30 minutes
Offsite parking shuttle to airport - 20 minutes
Checkin - 15 minutes (on a good day)
Security Check - 30 minutes (often much worse)
Flight - 1 hour, 30 minutes
Shuttle to Rental Car lot - 20 minutes

If we just add that up, for an hour and a half flight, it is 3 hours and 20 minutes of actual time. This is assuming that security doesn't take an hour or more to get through, which it does at times.

This also leaves out that you need to get to the airport in time to check-in at least an hour before your flight. Since security and check-in times are a complete unknown, I and may other people show up at least two hours before a flight in each direction, adding four hours to the total time.

I've often felt, when considering a flight to Los Angeles from the Bay Area, that I would just about break even by simply driving for six hours if I could know I wouldn't hit horrible traffic on the way.