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Commented on We need a pony. And the moon on a stick. By next Thursday.
I'm late to the conversation and this isn't sarcasm, but ISIS communicating through twitter with an app called The Dawn of Glad Tidings seems pretty close, even if in the inverse. Perhaps that is the effect of trying to identify...
Commented on If this had happened 30 years ago today, we would all have died
It wasn't just over Russia, but also Cuba: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/second-meteor-video-cuba-two-1712957 and then later over San Francisco (though certainly not as dramatically): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkF4sloZmBI&lc=PCwkobCCFAnABoSne7n9BTXJL8MzIIoosIP_ROsFFTg Imagining what could have happened in 1983 is scary, but what could have happened if that fireball had exploded...
Commented on Snowflakes, or Oh, No! Not Again!
completely off topic, but just wanted to thank Stina for some great posts and generating excellent discussion. I hope to see her in the discussion threads frequently in the future. And thanks Charlie for inviting her....
Commented on The Importance of Being Geek
"We are not the 'standard.' So we have to be more careful about what is expressed." I like that. I'm at first glance part of that standard (at least the US standard): a white male. But I'm gay and grew...
Commented on Zoom-Zoom
"feminist politics (we won't be chatting about that)" Why not? Questions of sex and gender and the politics surrounding them are important themes in almost all of Charlie's books. And those themes are visited here frequently. That parenthetical jumped out...
Commented on The ticking clock, stopped
I'd buy health insurance. (I live in the US.)...

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D.J.P. O'Kane commented on We need a pony. And the moon on a stick. By next Thursday.
Has this been posted yet? The FBI tried to compile a list of internet slang terms, only to end up with severe EOF (Egg On Face): http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/06/17/the-fbi-maintains-an-83-page-glossary-of-internet-slang-and-it-is-hilariously-frighteningly-out-of-touch/...
Jay commented on We need a pony. And the moon on a stick. By next Thursday.
I wonder what their entry for "We are aware of all internet traditions" looks like. Which level of irony escaped them?...
paws4thot commented on We need a pony. And the moon on a stick. By next Thursday.
The FB are USian, and government, and law enforcement, so I'd say "all levels of irony, including ones not even known to the rest of us"....
J Thomas commented on We need a pony. And the moon on a stick. By next Thursday.
"Even if they get this ludicrous linguistic hard AI, it would drown in so many petabytes of surveillance that it's still futile." Yes, but they don't need something that works. They need something they can claim they believe will work. If they get an assassination attempt that they did not predict, that had internet messages they should have predicted from, that will look bad after it happens provided the public hears about it. But right now they look bad for getting buried in petabytes of surveillance. If they can just get a good excuse to ignore that stuff they will...
JamesPadraicR commented on We need a pony. And the moon on a stick. By next Thursday.
This article seems to fit this thread: The FBI maintains an 83-page glossary of Internet slang. And it is hilariously, frighteningly out of touch. Apparently somebody in the FBI thinks that any acronym used on Twitter must be in common usage....

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Common Misconceptions About Publishing—a series of essays about the industry I work in.
How I Got Here In The End —my non-writing autobiography, or what I did before becoming a full-time writer.
Unwirer—an experiment in weblog mediated collaborative fiction.
Shaping the Future—a talk I gave on the social implications of Moore's Law.
Japan: first impressions — or, what I did on my holidays
Inside the MIT Media Lab—what it’s like to spend a day wandering around the Media Lab.
The High Frontier, Redux — space colonization: feasible or futile?
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