TECHNOLOGY: Publishers on the road to perdition

Friday, October 28, 2011

http://www.impactlab.net/2011/10/20/amazon-signs-up-writers-pushes-out-publishers/

October 20th, 2011 at 10:55 am

Amazon signs up writers, pushes out publishers

in: Business, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

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Readers have been taught by Amazon.com that they do not need bookstores. Now Amazon is encouraging writers to cast aside their publishers.

Amazon will publish 122 books this fall in an array of genres, in both physical and e-book form. It is a striking acceleration of the retailer’s fledging publishing program that will place Amazon squarely in competition with the New York houses that are also its most prominent suppliers.

It has set up a flagship line run by a publishing veteran, Laurence Kirshbaum, to bring out brand-name fiction and nonfiction. It signed its first deal with the self-help author Tim Ferriss. Last week it announced a memoir by the actress and director Penny Marshall, for which it paid $800,000, a person with direct knowledge of the deal said.

Publishers say Amazon is aggressively wooing some of their top authors. And the company is gnawing away at the services that publishers, critics and agents used to provide.

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Publishers caught a glimpse of a future they fear has no role for them late last month when Amazon introduced the Kindle Fire, a tablet for books and other media sold by Amazon. Jeffrey P. Bezos, the company’s chief executive, referred several times to Kindle as “an end-to-end service,” conjuring up a world in which Amazon develops, promotes and delivers the product.

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The days of the “publisher” are over. “Dead Man Walking”.

I “LULUed” (i.e., self-published) “CHURCH 10●19●62”. Just by getting it listed on Amazon, I was automagically invited to ebook it for the Kindle. I gave the OK and they did all the work. And, then did it for Europe. Translation and all. (Wish I read German just to see how good a job it did on ½ a million words. It can’t be good, but it might be funny.)

Then, with their KINDLE DIRECT PUBLISHING program, you can get content out there for the KINDLE and get 70% of the proceeds.

It’s amazing. It’s transformative. It’s destruction and disintermediation!

Too bad for the dinosaurs.

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ADMINISTRIVIA: Praying for Pat Summit

Thursday, October 27, 2011

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/womens-basketball/news?slug=ap-summitt-stillthesame

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HARDWARE: IPAD and PROJECT GUTTENBURG

Thursday, October 27, 2011

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37800

GIVEN: There’s a lot of good old content for youngsters on PROJECT GUTTENBERG.

FIND: If it was on the IPAD, then maybe the child would read it.

SOLUTION: Overlooking the issue of content selection for the moment …

I found an appropriate text — at least appropriate to this fat old white guy injineer — so I fowarded the link to the appropriate Mommy for approval.

(Our Girl’s Rule #1 for dealing with children: “Everything must be mommy approved first!” Boy, I miss her.)

So while awaiting approval, and being the grumpy old techie skeptic, I sprung to my IPAD — okay, so “sprung” is an exaggeration — for a test.

Fired up the safari browser, punched the link for the “book”, and what to my wondering eyes do appear … an error message about “FRAMES interrupted”.

(Nothing is ever as easy as it should be when it come to technology.)

So remembering how I got my novel “CHURCH 10●19●62” on to my IPAD, before Amazon listed it for the Kindle, …

I downloaded the illustrated epud format file to my mac.

Created an email with and attachment and sent it to “fat old white guy injineers ipad @ reinke dot cc”. (That’s an email address defined on the iPad.)

Open the email on the iPad.

Double tap on the attachment.

Select open with iBooks.

Voila!!!

It is there like a “real book”.

As a follow up, I’m going to ping an apple fanboy that I know for his interpretation of this story. (I’m sure it’s something like “tap the bezel while temporarily suspending Angry Birds, then with your left thumb stuck … in your right ear, while humming any Sousa melody for Dragon, poke your right eye out with the stylus. And it’ll work perfectly. You shouldn’t have reset the yada yada yada. And, that’s why Steve Jobs should be canonized.)

YMMV

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RANT: Gooferment “welfare” is immoral, ineffective, and inefficient.

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

http://www.dickmorris.com/blog/the-answers-on-immigration-dick-morris-tv-lunch-alert/

Dick’s answer to “illegal immigration”.

Wrong!

There should be no such thing as “illegal” immigration.

Eliminate welfare. Stop the “(pseudo) War on (some) Drugs”. And, eliminate the Federal Minimum wage.

Issue green cards at the border after a fingerprint / dna check.

The whole problem revolves around freeloaders — be they foreign or domestic — rich individuals or crony corporations — stop welfare by the Gooferment.

Gooferment “welfare” is immoral, ineffective, and inefficient.

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INSPIRATIONAL: The death of somebody close to you

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/5-ways-to-cope-during-a-life-crisis/

5 Ways to Cope During a Life Crisis
Written by Paul Browning
Categories: self improvement

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One of the great things about a life crisis is you get to find out what works. When life is easy and no major challenges are on the horizon, you can read all about affirmations, pray, meditate, firewalk or just read self-help manuals written by big-name gurus. Then life throws you a major health challenge, the end of a relationship, the death of somebody close to you and an unexpected job loss. Now what?

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The center is the core of YOU, where you sense all your feelings and experience your emotions.

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I’m not so sure that these tactics work for me.

Can’t hurt to try them.

I’ve never had a unique center in forty years. Hard to figure out where it is.

It’s easier to go back to bed. :-) Or blog, That’s the same thing.

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SERVICE: FOURSQUARE allows someone else to be mayor of my house?

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

https://foursquare.com/v/ferds–fremont/4c59d05b2091a593f7d65dd0

And, interesting rant about software, how is someone else the “mayor” of 51 Fremont?

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GOLDBUG: Confiscations in time

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8829908/Biggest-haul-of-Roman-gold-in-Britain-could-have-been-found.html

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In other cases, someone who was under threat could have buried them because they wanted to hide their wealth.

Another regular occurrence was coins being recalled, so they could be melted down to produce more currency. When that happened, Romans would head into the garden, and bury their money to keep it safe for the future.

It will be fascinating to find out what is there in terms of coins, but also why, and how, it came to be buried there. “Every hoard is different, and the bigger the number of coins, the more we can find out about the history of the area.”

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Wow, gold confiscations weren’t limited to FDR. Tell you anything?

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HARDWARE: SLINGBOX not recommended

Monday, October 24, 2011

SLINGBOX sucks.

I bought it with the intention that Our Girl would be able to watch her soap in the hospital.

Couldn’t get it to connect to the (at the time) Comcast router.

(At the time, I was working for Comcast and their official supprt reaction was “good”. No surprise there.)

SO, needless to say that was a waste and “Non returnable” to the Sling folks.

(Isn’t the first time I’ve gotten stuck with a “whte elephant” by a vendor. But like the elephant, I never forget. I have alist of “folk I’ll never buy from”. Hardware, software, carpet, windows, home improvement, cars, etc. etc. I get screwed a lot.)

Down the shore, I have a cable router that I can’t cancel for another year. So, let me see if I can get it working down there. Now it connects to the net, but when I go to register the website won’t give me anything other than “invalid password”. (How can any password be invalid?)

Go over to support, can’t get support on anything unless it’s within 90 days of purchase.

Argh!

(Maybe it’s time to annoy some Gooferment bureaucrats?)

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RANT: What is the real rate of unemployment?

Monday, October 24, 2011

http://lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts329.html

The End of History by Paul Craig Roberts

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As statistician John Williams (shadowstats.com) has shown, the official inflation measures are rigged in order to hold down cost of living adjustments to Social Security recipients, thus saving money for Washington’s wars. When measured correctly, the current rate of inflation in the US is 11.5%.

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Wonder what the real rate of unemployment is?

Not just new filings!

Bet it’s a lot more than 9%. I’d guess that a smidgen less than the Great Depression rate. What’s your guess?

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TECHNOLOGY: The secret of longer life?

Monday, October 24, 2011

http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/16/0215224/dna-sequenced-of-woman-who-lived-to-115

DNA Sequenced of Woman Who Lived To 115
Posted by Soulskill on Sunday October 16, @02:20AM

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chrb writes

“The DNA of W115 — an anonymous woman who lived to the age of 115 years and left her body to science — has been sequenced. Despite her old age, W115 showed no signs of dementia or heart disease, and tests at the age of 113 showed she had the mental abilities of a woman aged 60-75 years. Dr. Henne Holstege of the Department of Clinical Genetics at the VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam has suggested W115 had rare genetic changes in her DNA which protected against Alzheimer’s and other late-life diseases.”

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Is this the secret of longer life?

I remember a Heinlein SciFi novel that postulated the premise that long life was genes. You wither had them or you didn’t.

Hmm?

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POLITICAL: Same old, same old; different sides of the same coin

Sunday, October 23, 2011

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/97324.html

October 22, 2011
Congressional Welfare Statists
Posted by Laurence Vance on October 22, 2011 11:08 AM

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The Senate recently voted, 84-15, to approve an amendment to an agriculture bill that would discontinue certain farm subsidies for people who have more than $1 million a year in adjusted gross income. The current limit is $1.2 million. Better, of course, to cut all the farm subsidies.

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Why didn’t Republicans get rid of farm subsidies when the controlled the Congress under Clinton for six years? Why didn’t Republicans get rid of farm subsidies when they controlled the Congress for over four years under Bush the Republican? Why aren’t Republicans trying to get rid of all farm subsidies now? And you thought only Democrats were welfare statists.

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Why are we subsidizing rich people? Could there be campaign contributions or plain old graft involved?

Stupidity!

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MONEY: The consequences of the new “Snooki” tax

Sunday, October 23, 2011

http://biggovernment.com/dmitchell/2011/10/15/the-laffer-curve-wins-again-snooki-1-irs-0/

The Laffer Curve Wins Again: Snooki 1, IRS 0
by Dan Mitchell

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I don’t know if that’s true, but let’s give it a try. I now have an example of the Laffer Curve for the MTV audience. Best of all, the story is from USA Today.

The IRS got red-faced trying to collect the new tanning tax, burning a hole in estimates on how much the levy would bring in to federal coffers, a new report said Thursday. …Tanning tax receipts for that nine-month period totaled $54.4 million, the report found. That was below projections by the Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation, which had estimated the tax would raise $50 million in the last three months of fiscal year 2010 and $200 million for the full 2011 fiscal year.

Let’s deconstruct the numbers from the article. The Joint Committee on Taxation estimated that this new “Snooki” tax (part of the awful Obamacare legislation) was going to raise about $50 million every three months.

Yet during the first nine months, the tax raised just $54.4 million, not $150 million.

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The fancy name for this behavior is “dynamic scoring”.

Bottom line is that everyone adapts their behavior to the conditions. Conditions change; behaviors change.

For politicians and bureaucrats to make predictions, that assume “static” behavior, demonstrates stupidity.

But then doesn’t that perfectly describe ALL Gooferment actions?

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GUNS: A real life tool in action

Sunday, October 23, 2011

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/very-afraid-66-year-old-woman-shoots-and-kills-home-intruder/

CRIME

‘VERY AFRAID’: 66-YEAR-OLD WOMAN SHOOTS AND KILLS HOME INTRUDER

Posted on October 22, 2011 at 7:20pm by Christopher Santarelli

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An elderly Northern California-woman woke early Friday morning to hear an intruder attempting to break into her home. CBS 12 reports that the 66-year-old Donna Hopper is still shaken after shooting the 37-year-old intruder dead:

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Hopper says she was terrified when she heard the intruder at her her door, firing two warning shots through her window to scare the man away. When 37-year-old Jesse Edward Theis persisted, attempting to come back in, Hopper fired a fatal shot in his abdomen, killing Theis on the scene.

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I feel bad for this poor woman. To have that on your mind for the rest of your life, it’s a burden.

On a humorous note, after two warning shots, the fellow didn’t move along to an easier target.

Serendipity, a few hours ago, I posted about women and guns. About what fool would want to be down range from even a crazy woman sending lead in your direction!

So what happens if you’re in that situation. Do you, as the popular bumper sticker says, “dial 911 and die”?

Or do you reach over to your “safe”, cycle the action, and put two warning shots down range.

(I am rethinking using my 1911 and 45ACP as being too powerful for “home defense use”. But if it’s a bear or a druggie on speed, then it’s just right. Assuming I can hit what I aim at.)

Of course, my favorite for home defense is the old shotgun. It makes such a distinctive sound when you cycle the action. Like that favorite old joke about the Quaker who says to the intruder in a darkened room: “I mean thee no harm, but thou are standing where I plan to shoot. LOL! Dumb. The few Quakers I know would never shoot at any human under any circumstances. Us Libertarians would be carefully considering the balance. To use deadly force, one must be facing a deadly threat.

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SERVICE: Remind me about availability?

Sunday, October 23, 2011

201110230029.jpg

Recorded after the World Series Game at approx 0030 EDST 23 Oct 2011.

Guess any day is as good as another.

lol!

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DATA: Getting content on to the ipad without spending money

Saturday, October 22, 2011

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/37815/37815-h/37815-h.htm

SNOWDRIFT
A Story of the Land of the Strong Cold
By JAMES B. HENDRYX

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GUNS: Woman and firearms

Saturday, October 22, 2011

http://thesurvivalmom.com/2011/10/10/just-for-women-23-truths-about-firearms/

Just for women: 23 Truths about Firearms

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9. Your safety is your responsibility. Not your husband’s, nor the police, nor your kids.

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11. If a gun isn’t possible or desirable in your circumstances, come up with Plan B. One of my friends keeps a baseball bat near the front seat of her minivan. Another always has the most powerful pepper spray on the market in her purse, and yet another keeps an 18″ length of steel rebar wedged between the driver’s seat of her car and the middle console. Whatever your choice, always be aware of the location of your weapon, practice using it, and be comfortable with the thought that one day you may have to use it.

12. Don’t listen to celebrities and politicians who go on hysterical anti-gun rants. Remember, they can afford armed bodyguards and state-of-the-art home security systems. (Interesting that it’s okay if their bodyguards are armed but they don’t think law-abiding citizens should be able to own and carry guns.) I am my kid’s armed bodyguard.

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Are there any other truths I’ve missed?

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The three S’s? (Shoot, shovel, and shutup!)

“Gun control” = “Victim Disarmament”

“Victim disarmament is the view that it is somehow better to see a woman raped in an alley and strangled with her own pantyhose, than see her with a gun in her hand.” — T.D. Melrose

The woman who’s hunted can become the hunter.

“God made men and women; Sam Colt made them equal.”

“Gun control has nothing to do with guns and everything to do with control.” — Mark Steyn

“For the cost of one of those expensive phones, one person could have ended this shooting spree.” referring to the Norwegian massacre. Like most “shooting incidents”, disarmed people are allowed to be slaughtered. Misguide liberal fantasies prevent good honest people a fighting chance to defend themselves.

Who, in their right mind, would want to be on receiving end of some crazy woman’s “pea shooter”? Even wearing a vest wouldn’t be a guarantee of safety. Ever seen how people shoot? While they may aim for the center of mass, that isn’t where the bullet always winds up.

You know the politicians have armed bodyguards. But that’s denied to the common folks — the Mundanes. Like the Warsaw Ghetto Jews. Waiting to be murdered.

Guns are just another tool.

And, as Heinlein wrote: “An armed society is a polite society.”

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FUN: Don’t trust anyone … ever

Friday, October 21, 2011

FROM LUDDITE

http://www.jacquielawson.com/viewcard.asp?code=QG10388318

Hmmm?

Funny and cute.

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In today’s environment, with malware, address book takeovers, and all sorts of concerns, who’s looking at e-cards?

Who can be sure of such things? There’s no Underwriters’ Laboratory for inet content and sites.

Hmmm, business model?

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MEMORIES: Too bad Our Girl didn’t get to see …

Friday, October 21, 2011

She was never a big fan of the movies. She’d go, but it’d have to be something really good.

New movies out … … “Mighty Macs”.

She told me all about the real Mighty Macs about the same time she explained the beauties of the pick and roll.

:-)

Makes me miss her even more.

If such was possible.

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http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=358585

A nice review.

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POLITICAL: Flashing headlights

Friday, October 21, 2011

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/fl-man%E2%80%99s-lawsuit-raises-question-should-flashing-headlights-to-spoil-speed-traps-be-illegal/

FL MAN’S LAWSUIT RAISES QUESTION: SHOULD FLASHING HEADLIGHTS TO SPOIL SPEED TRAPS BE ILLEGAL?

Posted on October 13, 2011 at 1:45pm by Buck Sexton

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MONEY: Write your own receipts?

Thursday, October 20, 2011

You know how “they say” “too late I get smart”.

(Where did my content go?)

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My original content disappeared.

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I realize that I’ve missed many tax deductions by not having a method to capture all these expenses.

So, finally, I was browsing in Staples and I spotted “rent receipts”. So now I am capturing it.

Too little too late. Better late than never.

For example, last Saturday, a neighbor came over with two cubs to sell popcorn. (Again!)

So, I signed up and paid up. There was no receipt. So, using my new tool, I wrote my own.

Original stays in the book for future reference if I need it. The copy goes into the tax folder.

If I have a receipt, I staple it on to the copy.

It’s all about data capture.

Wish I’d done it years ago.

Argh!

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MONEY: Politicians need cash; tax deffered accounts in the bulls eye

Thursday, October 20, 2011

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=587818&src=IBDDAE&p=2

Are Democrats Eyeing 401(k)s, IRAs for Tax Hit?
By JOHN MERLINE, INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY
Posted 10/12/2011 02:53 PM ET

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Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board suggested cutting or ending the retirement tax deduction to pay for an expanded Saver’s Credit, which is now targeted at low-income workers.

Obama’s National Economic Council chairman, Gene Sperling, also has endorsed scrapping the tax deduction in favor of a refundable tax credit.

Baucus hasn’t endorsed any specific change, but said at the hearing that “we need to look for ways to do more with less.”

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When these “addicts” need money, they’ll steal wealth from anywhere.

Will this be the thing that gets “We, The Sheeple” off the couch?

They’ll keep trying until they get it.

Look at FDR’s gold confiscation!

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TECHNOLOGY: The problem of a digital bookcase

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Designing an infinite digital bookcase
Posted: 18 Oct 2011 12:29 PM PDT

(Cross-posted on the Google Code blog)

As digital designers, we often think about how to translate traditional media into a virtual space. Recently, we thought about the bookcase. What would it look like if it was designed to hold digital books?

A digital interface needs to be familiar enough to be intuitive, while simultaneously taking advantage of the lack of constraints in a virtual space. In this case, we imagined something that looks like the shelves in your living room, but is also capable of showcasing the huge number of titles available online—many more than fit on a traditional shelf. With this in mind, we designed a digital bookcase that’s an infinite 3D helix. You can spin it side-to-side and up and down with your mouse. It holds 3D models of more than 10,000 titles from Google Books.

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Posted by Aaron Koblin, Data Arts Team and Bill Schilit, Research

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I love the ability of reading books on the IPAD.

But, I’ve lost the ability of sharing a book with others.

And, it seems that everyone wants me to pay, re-pay, and pay again for the same content.

Ain’t going to happen! Can’t happen.

Reason #1: I can’t afford to buy all that content over again. Reason #2: Some of the content I want to have (i.e., Heinlein’s Starship Troopers) is not available.

And, I still have a grip with CopyRight law. If a book is “out of print”, how is that benefiting society. And seventy or more years under “protection”.

Sorry, copyrights and patents shouldn’t last more that a decade or two. And, just putting a ribbon on the donkey’s butt should give another decade or two of lock up. We, as a society, exchange the lockup for the benefit of everyone. Where’s the benefit of an extended lockup.

Argh!

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NANOWRIMO2011: Pep talk message

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Greetings, NaNo-novelist!

Have you seen the countdown clock on NaNoWriMo lately? The 2011 noveling extravaganza begins in just 13 days!

In preparation for this wild and wordy festival of writing, we’ve relaunched NaNoWriMo.org (and that very hypnotic clock). The site is now built upon the extra-sleek framework of Ruby on Rails, which means the forums are speedier than ever, and slow page-loads are a distant memory. (Though you can still fondly reminisce on those with me in the NaNoWriMo history.)

Come on over to NaNoWriMo.org today to check out all the shiny newness, including an all-star cast of pep talkers, the 2011 batch ofweb badges, our revamped forums, and special noveling goodies in the store.

You can also find the local chapter closest to you, and catch up on news and events there in the regional forum!

If nothing else, come by to witness the sheer speed of it all. Heavens to Betsy, the speed!

If you know any kids, teens, or educators who would enjoy this challenge, be sure to send them over to NaNoWriMo’s Young Writers Program! Director Chris Angotti has cooked up the best resources yet for our 50,000-plus young novelists around the world.

We can’t wait to see you in NaNoLand!

Counting down to go-time,
Lindsey Grant
Program Director

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JOBFINDING: CA IDENTITY MANAGER developer

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

I am still recruiting on the Development Analyst assignment. I spoke with the hiring manager and made clear some important points! Identity manager version vr12 is important they are implementing an important technical deployment LDS version being integrated I think this is a CA application. the assignment has a very competitive hourly rate and a 40 hour work week. Please refer anyone you know qualified.

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POLITICAL: Olive Garden flag flap

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

http://www.cbs12.com/articles/garden-4735966-flag-olive.html

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American flag display would disrupt dining experience | garden, flag, olive – Olive Garden – WPEC 12 West Palm Beach

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Guess we have to boycott Olive Garden for now?

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http://www.myfoxal.com/story/15681535/olive-garden-apologizes-to-kiwanis-club

That was quick!

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ADMINISTRIVIA: Platelets needed

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

The American Red Cross Blood Services is in need of platelet donors. Currently there are not enough platelet donors on our schedule to meet the needs of area hospital patients.  Platelets only last five days after your donation and cannot be frozen. Platelet donations are needed everyday. Because your body replaces all the donated platelets within 7 days, you may be able to donate platelets as often as every 7 days and still participate in your community or workplace blood drive.  Please help us avoid a shortage by making a donation appointment today.

As a token of appreciation for your time and dedication

We hope we can count on you to support the apheresis platelet donor program.

If you would like to speak with a Red Cross representative to schedule a donation, please call us at 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767).

The American Red Cross will give one $50 GiftCertificates.com SuperCertifcate® per week from 10/17/2011 through 11/13/2011 to one winning platelet donor drawn at random for a total of 4 overall winners. All winners will be notified via phone. Incentives are not transferable nor readily converted to cash and no change will be given. GiftCertificates.com and its related companies are not sponsors or co-sponsors of this promotion.

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