Mr. Simmons was at The Tattered Cover last night for the first appearance of his tour promoting Olympos, the sequel to Illium. He was as entertaining as always, and seeing him here is always a treat as he gets more personal and reads a bit longer since here is “home base” for him.
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Dan Simmons
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Jun 2005
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Eminent Domain
29
Jun 2005
Based upon the recent Supreme Court decision ruling that a government can take private property and give it to a private comapny, someone is attempting to get Justice Souter’s house and replace it with a hotel. No, I’m not kidding!
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More mokeys
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Jun 2005
The latest issue of Wired magazine contains an interview with the virtual band Gorillaz by Neil Gaiman. Luckily you can read it online if you don’t have a print copy.
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King! Kong!
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Jun 2005
The triler for Peter Jackson’s upcoming version of King Kong is now available on the movie’s site.
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MIT Blogger Survey
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Jun 2005
If you’re a blogger, why not take ten minutes and help the folks over at MIT out?
Category: blogger
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Funny t-shirt
29
Jun 2005
I’m pretty sure that administration will frown on you wearing this shirt while working the reference desk. (Tempting as it may be…)
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Dylan signs coffee chain CD deal
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Jun 2005
AS if the whole Alanis-CD-exclusively-in-Starbucks thing wasn’t enough, now Bob Dylan is doing the same thing, for 18 months in this case. The question is, as my friend Steve put it, will Dylan fans go into a Starbucks specifically for the CDs?
Category: starbucks
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Posdcasting makes or breaks today
28
Jun 2005
Why? Because the new version of iTunes (4.9), released today, natively supports podcasting.
Category: apple, itunes
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Longhorn
28
Jun 2005
Here’s the first videos from Microsoft regarding RSS support in Longhorn
Category: rss
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