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Scientology: The truth rundown

Scientology: The truth rundown
Worth a read, by the Scientologists’ home town paper.   Just go ahead and read Mission:Earth and tell me Hubbard was not at least a little clinical == daft as a hatter.

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Stranger in a Strange Land

I seem to recall something.. er… Oh, just never mind.

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Why I both like and hate the kindle.

e-ink and e-books are both good, and combined, are a net HUGE win. I love the kindle, Amazon’s new e-book device, for what it is, a major play into the market, and the instant updates, wikipedia, etc. There is a lot of awesome in the device to love. Ultimately though, this article [...]

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Apparently…

I took the Sci-Fi Author quiz, and I am Gregory Benford.   Where the hell is Spider Robinson?   And honestly, I thought I would turn out to be Robert Heinlein.

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Top 100 Sci-Fi books

Woot
Top 100 of Science Fiction

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Red-hot, smoking, library porn!

Oh yeah, baby!   Via del.icio.us

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We’re all doomed, or hoaxed or…

The Gospels of the Backhoe.

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Global Warming and My Giant Grain of Salt

My buddy just sent me this article, from Baghdad. Please read the whole thing before you dispatch the men with torches to burn me as a heretic.
Taark
Fire, of Ice?
by William Rusher
Posted Jul 20, 2006

The New York Times’s headline read, “America in Longest Warm Spell
Since 1776; Temperature Line Records a 25-Year Rise.” Well, what’s so new
about [...]

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The 48 Laws of Power

Good, good book.   I bought it in Europe when I was doing management-type-things.   It may make you cynical, but then again, power has it’s own set of laws.
On the Internet.
On Amazon.

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Interesting editorial by Isaac

Asimov’s will often feature old editorials by Isaac on the website. I am not normally a fan of most genre poetry at all.
However, the one referenced in the editorial is outstanding. Outstanding both in content and due to the the time-period in which it was penned. It is a remniscient of Eve in my opinion.
At [...]

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