Monthly Archives: December 2006

Meteor Farming

By Frank Paynter | Published: December 26, 2006

See Ben Paynter’s article on Meteor Farming in the current issue of Wired. Online here…

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Happy Holidays

By Administrator | Published: December 25, 2006

Stay warm…

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Wagging the long tail… Marly Youmans

By Frank Paynter | Published: December 24, 2006

And I’d like to challenge other bloggers to make spreading the word about invisible writers one of their own resolutions for 2007. A peeper is a tiny creature, but set a chorus of them going and they can shake the spring nights. – Marly Youmans

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“Hottie Flash” and her faithful bearded companion “Fatman”

By Frank Paynter | Published: December 23, 2006

Today it became clear to us that Beth is a superhero and I am her sidekick. Since I revealed our not-so-secret identities in the header, we probably won’t be admitted to the universal arcane fellowship of transdimensional superheroes and sidekicks. That doesn’t matter. Our success doesn’t depend upon access to a phone booth and spandex [...]

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Slouching toward Bethlehem — 2006

By Frank Paynter | Published: December 23, 2006

The Iranian government prepared ground for replacement of dollar with euro and other foreign exchanges, Secretariat of the government’s information dissemination council said on Friday. In violation of the U.S. Code and international law, the Bush administration is spending more money (in inflation-adjusted dollars) to develop illegal, offensive germ warfare than the $2 billion spent [...]

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A message for today’s youth…

By Frank Paynter | Published: December 22, 2006

Stay out of jail this holiday season. It will make your parents proud. (Thanks to Kat Herding Media for the pointers on how to steal share MySpace vids.)

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MySpace Memetics

By Frank Paynter | Published: December 22, 2006

“Shhh… So I was on myspace today and I have 2200 Friends. But I started to think about all the people out there with very few friends. People who might be feeling lonely. So, we have to adopt someone. – ze Frank” ze Frank proposed lending the numerical weight of the Sports Racer community to [...]

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Lost boys found

By Frank Paynter | Published: December 21, 2006

Shelley shares some local news about two boys who ducked out of school and took off on an adventure. She writes: Our children, with their PS3s and XBoxes and iPods and internet and other artifacts of modernization and privilege no longer have a chance to experience a suspension of belief long enough to put such [...]

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