Truth is stranger than fiction

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Truth- More Annoying Than Fiction!

Truth- More Annoying Than Fiction! 08/30/2004 01:35 PM

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Well, having run down the rest of the page referenced in my revised “Rumor?” post, it appears that those little Microsoftians have been busy. Unfortunately, they’ve been busy figuring out ways to break Windows XP under the guise of ‘improving’ security. As you go down the page you may start to wonder why Windows XP works at all after installing the SP-2 patch. Something that I think will catch Messenger users by surprise, since I…

Nvidia Driver Cheats? Truth or Fiction?

Nvidia Driver Cheats? Truth or Fiction? 04/29/2004 07:35 AM

Lessig and Doctorow, Truth and Fiction,
on Swiss Wi-Fi

Lessig and Doctorow, Truth and Fiction,
on Swiss Wi-Fi 12/13/2003 01:53 PM
Cory Doctorow, true-life rights defender and novelist, exposes a chunk of his work-in-progress, while pointing to Larry Lessig, true-life true-intent-of-copyright defender, who rants: Cory's notes the anti-openness and generally confusing nature of using Wi-Fi in Switzerland, a country that revels in expense in general, in an excerpt from his newest work-in-progress, based on his experience in Switzerland. He points to Lessig's post about ironically having the worst possible time connecting at the World Summit on the Information Society. In both cases, they're talking mostly about a single provider, Swiss Telecom, which doesn't appear to want "drop-in" users. I was recently in Whistler, B.C., a ski resort community with a township around it, where there are now two competing ubiquitous Wi-Fi networks. Curse my luck, the condo unit my wife and I rented could barely receive the signal of both--not strong enough to be useful. But both services also required out-of-band connections: you had to go to some store or kiosk to purchase specific periods of time. So instead of Wi-Fi, I skied, and apres-ski, I went to Internet cafes, where I spent a total of about US$8 over three days for a couple of hours of access....

The Truth About FOX News is That It is
Not the Truth: It is Murdoch's Right
Wing Shill Machine for Bush 11/1

The Truth About FOX News is That It is
Not the Truth: It is Murdoch's Right
Wing Shill Machine for Bush 11/1 11/03/2003 06:39 AM
Miles from 'fair and balanced' .. Media Matters column .. fair

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Swift Boat Veterans for Truth - Senator
Kerry: Tell the Truth and We'll Stop the
Ads

Swift Boat Veterans for Truth - Senator
Kerry: Tell the Truth and We'll Stop the
Ads 09/01/2004 06:10 AM
open letter to John Kerry .. offered

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"In this mourning space, however, there
must be room made for the truth. Writer
Edward Abbey once said, "The sneakiest
form of literary subtlety, in a corrupt
society, is to speak the plain truth.
The critics will not understand you; the
public will not..."

"In this mourning space, however, there
must be room made for the truth. Writer
Edward Abbey once said, "The sneakiest
form of literary subtlety, in a corrupt
society, is to speak the plain truth.
The critics will not understand you; the
public will not..." 06/14/2004 09:52 AM

stranger things will come your way

stranger things will come your way 06/05/2005 10:54 PM
It seems like the majority of bloggers are divided into two camps on The Huffington Post: Some have decided to...

"The Mysterious Stranger"

"The Mysterious Stranger" 12/10/2003 03:08 PM

On scientific truth and Christian
truth...

On scientific truth and Christian
truth... 07/16/2004 06:40 AM

In the middle of an article about the way that the religious right have interfered with scientific work in the US, I find a troubling paragraph:

At a time when biology is poised to undergo a fundamental revolution, the US government, arguably the most potent government in the history of the world, is rife with White House appointees who believe that scientific truth and Christian truth cannot be synonymous, and may well be in opposition.

I ask myself - do I believe that scientific truth and Christian truth can be synonymous? My answer - no. I ask myself - do I believe that they may well be in opposition? My answer - yes. The only difference between me and the people from the religious right then, is that we disagree with which 'truth' is the more reliable. I stick on the side of the people who test their conclusions and refine their belief systems with reference to evidence - they stick to the side of the people who believe that a magic being sets bushes on fire and turns women into salt.

So the scary bit for me is not that the nutters in power believe that the two are incompatible, but that the assumption is that for reasonable, normal, run-of-the-mill scientists all across America that it's normal to be able to reconcile meteorology with the concept of rains of blood and biology with people who bring people back from the dead...

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"Curious Stranger explains"

"Curious Stranger explains" 05/20/2004 04:11 PM

Art as Game: Oddworld Stranger

Art as Game: Oddworld Stranger 08/30/2004 11:09 PM
G4 Tech TV Aug 31 2004 2:17AM GMT

Mo. Woman Donates Kidney to Stranger
(AP)

Mo. Woman Donates Kidney to Stranger
(AP) 12/30/2004 09:43 AM
AP - Madolena Key was scheduled to donate a kidney to her husband in 2002 when a perfectly matched organ from a deceased donor became available. Just like that, Key's kidney wasn't needed — until she thought about it for awhile.

Internet Stranger Fear For Fiona, 15

Internet Stranger Fear For Fiona, 15 09/04/2004 08:44 PM
Glasgow Sunday Mail Sep 4 2004 11:22PM GMT

Stranger Makes Grand Impression

Stranger Makes Grand Impression 02/01/2005 08:44 PM
Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath puts a bizarre and humorous spin on action-shooter gameplay, and looks great doing it. Game review by Chris Kohler.

In Death Watch for Stranger, Becoming a
Friend to the End

In Death Watch for Stranger, Becoming a
Friend to the End 01/24/2004 03:56 PM
A new program in New York trains "doulas," volunteers that befriend those fated to die in solitude.

Jabberwocky: Intel's "Familiar Stranger"
Bluetooth application

Jabberwocky: Intel's "Familiar Stranger"
Bluetooth application 05/12/2004 11:27 AM
I wrote an article for TheFeature about Intel's "Jabberwocky," a bluetooth phone application that lets you track your "familiar strangers," (a term coined by late psychologist Stanley Milgram). Link

Stranger Pays to Send GI's Lost Dog Home
(AP)

Stranger Pays to Send GI's Lost Dog Home
(AP) 07/29/2004 09:58 PM
AP - Luckily for Army Spc. Brian Wallace, he's not the only member of his family who wears dog tags.

"Programming with libxml2 is like the
thrilling embrace of an exotic
stranger."

"Programming with libxml2 is like the
thrilling embrace of an exotic
stranger." 02/18/2004 11:58 PM
libxml2 causes unrelated subsystems to fail, unless you threaten to debug it .. Feed Parser3.0 beta 18 is out. .. Beware of strangers

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"Many media outlets have been providing
a relatively easy outlet for the
so-called "Swift Boat Veterans for
Truth" (SBV for short; more
appropriately described as the Swift
Boat Veterans Who Have a Problem With
The Truth or as Swift Boat Veteran..."

"Many media outlets have been providing
a relatively easy outlet for the
so-called "Swift Boat Veterans for
Truth" (SBV for short; more
appropriately described as the Swift
Boat Veterans Who Have a Problem With
The Truth or as Swift Boat Veteran..." 08/12/2004 08:05 AM

Swift Boat Veterans for Truth -
Statement By Swift Boat Veterans for
Truth Member Larry Thurlow

Swift Boat Veterans for Truth -
Statement By Swift Boat Veterans for
Truth Member Larry Thurlow 08/20/2004 10:56 AM
Statement By Swift Boat Veterans for Truth Member Larry Thurlow .. Larry Thurlow responds to attacks from the Kerry campaign .. Instead Thurlow has spurned this dishonorable honor

swiftvets.com/article.php?story=20040819100856500
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Fiction

Fiction 08/06/2004 02:49 PM
The Shore, a short-stor y by Richard Ford.

Samurai Fiction

Samurai Fiction 04/17/2005 06:15 AM

After an unusually busy Saturday morning, putting out a fire related to load balancing for a client and trying out an integration test for a milestone due Monday, I watched Samurai Fiction.  Boy, what a stupid boring movie.  It's only enjoyable spot was the aging ninja.

Hypertext Fiction

Hypertext Fiction 04/25/2004 11:01 AM
Howard S. Becker: A New Art Form: Hypertext Fiction

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Best fiction of 2003

Best fiction of 2003 01/11/2004 03:47 AM
Salon's picks for the year's finest novels include off-center tales of the '70s, the slavery era and the Lewis and Clark expedition, a battle with troublesome software code, and the purgatory of boarding school.

The Fiction Bitch

The Fiction Bitch 09/09/2004 06:12 PM
Fiction Bitch "The Fiction Bitch doesn't want to encourage new writers. She wants to weed out terrible writers before they go on to bore millions of innocent publishing house interns to tears."

Legal Fiction

Legal Fiction 12/24/2004 01:08 PM
Publius€™s post .. concludes .. piece

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" Which Author's Fiction are You? "

" Which Author's Fiction are You? " 11/13/2003 03:07 AM

When Is a Fact a Fiction?

When Is a Fact a Fiction? 08/27/2004 02:11 PM
Microsoft's "Get the Facts" campaign is getting the company in hot water again. This time it's the British Advertising Standards Authority questioning Redmond's claims of superiority over Linux. Microsoft is shrugging off the criticism as much ado about nothing.

Science Fiction and Religion

Science Fiction and Religion 01/19/2004 10:41 AM
I was reading an interview with Ted Chiang, and the first lines struck me: All science fiction is fundamentally post-religious literature. For those whose minds are shaped by science and technology, the universe is fundamentally knowable. Faith dissolves, replaced by a sense of wonder at the complexity of creation.What do you think of this?

FML: Fiction Markup Language

FML: Fiction Markup Language 01/16/2004 11:33 AM

When is someone going to come up with Fiction Markup Language — an XML spec solely for annotating fiction? For example:

Take perhaps the greatest novel ever written: Ian Fleming's 1953 classic "Casino Royale." Let's break this down from a big chunk of text to make up something more usable.

Obviously, you could mark the chapters and section numbers, but let's go further into the actual content of the narrative. Begin by surrounding all spoken text with tags. For example:

Perhaps you can have another attribute for "target" to identify to whom he's speaking. Then I could do an XPath query to find everything James Bond said to Vesper Lynd in the entire book.

And how about locations? Surround passages with their physical location, like the casino floor, Bond's hotel room, etc. (where appropriate — wouldn't work in all situations). I could then use XPath to find all the unique locations in the book (this would be great for the globe-hopping James Bond novels).

Identify "action" passages and mark them. How about the death of a character? Mark them so I can immediately find out where Le Chiffre was killed and read how it happened.

Introductions of characters are another thing. Mark the first appearance of each character so if I can't remember who someone is, I can go back and find where they first appeared and who they are.

I'm reading Tom Clancy's "Politika" right now, and I can hardly keep track of everyone. It'd be handy to be able to print a "report" showing who everyone is. (A good ebook client implementation of this would know what page the reader was on and not report anything past that page as to not spoil anything.)

Maybe mark the beginning and ending of pages as they appeared in the original publication. And have some way for an expert to insert commentary about the text.

James Bond novels are one thing, but imagine if someone did this for, say, "War and Peace". It would be like Cliffs Notes embedded in the text of the book.

There's unexplored potential here. I can't be the first person to think of this. (And another question: is this just an attempt to completely suck the soul right out of fiction? Should we just leave it the hell alone?)

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"Science Fiction Museum"

"Science Fiction Museum" 06/13/2004 02:39 AM

Is Science Fiction About to Go Blind?

Is Science Fiction About to Go Blind? 08/17/2004 01:37 AM

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“Wandering through the exhibition room at a science-fiction convention in Boston a few months ago, I saw plenty of reprints of golden-age SF classics for sale. But I also encountered paintings of half-naked people battling dragons, vendors hawking crystals and a folk musician warming up for a recital. Where is the science in science fiction? I wondered. Whatever happened to envisioning the future? Anthropologist Judith Berman, who recently surveyed a crop of science fiction published…

Which Author's Fiction are You? -
Quizilla

Which Author's Fiction are You? -
Quizilla 11/12/2003 11:33 PM
Which Author's Fiction are You?

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New Futurismic fiction online

New Futurismic fiction online 09/01/2004 07:49 AM
Cory Doctorow: Jeremy sez, "I just posted a new story from Tom Doyle called 'Art's Appreciation' to Futurismic Fiction. The title character is the kind of psychotic violence-prone anti-hero we'll all be cheering for if the spammers, the ad flacks and the copyright goons get their way." Link (Thanks, Jeremy!)

It's only fiction, but is it legal? |
csmonitor.com

It's only fiction, but is it legal? |
csmonitor.com 07/30/2004 05:26 PM
Legality explored of Nicholson Baker’s fact-based argument (in fiction) for assassinating Dub-Dub .. New novel by acclaimed author examines the moral argument for killing President Bush .. Is it illegal to write a novel about killing the President?

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Pulp Fiction -- new RSS reader for Mac
OSX

Pulp Fiction -- new RSS reader for Mac
OSX 04/19/2004 09:45 AM
Coming to beta for Mac OS X on May 1st: a new RSS reader called "Pulp Fiction." Link (thanks, Jean-Luc )

SCO DoS attack: fact or fiction?

SCO DoS attack: fact or fiction? 12/14/2003 03:28 AM
Since SCO first reported the DDoS attack against, some serious doubts have arisen about the veracity of their claim. What's the true story?

Interactive Fiction Language

Interactive Fiction Language 04/26/2004 05:18 PM
Welcome!

40s science fiction comic scanned

40s science fiction comic scanned 01/17/2004 10:57 PM
Bless this kind-hearted sould who scanned a beautifully rendered comic book from the 1940s and uploaded it to his site. I wish all Golden Age comics were available like this. Link (via Irregular Orbit)

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