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Commented on Competition Time!
Failure to anonymously denounce co-worker to ethics department for inadvertently telling the truth to parliamentary oversight committee....
Commented on The ticking clock
What is there beyond pure materialism? You mention Buddha, but isn't the point of Nirvana being relieved of any considerations, not just material ones? What if you had a thousand lives to live, where you use the first couple of...
Commented on The ticking clock
Maybe it really wouldn't make that much of a difference a couple of months after you got the news? Since you pitted winning the lottery against getting some really bad news health-wise, this is what popped into my head: http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_asks_why_are_we_happy.html...

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?
“Nothing like this will be built again”—inside a nuclear reactor complex.
Old blog—2003-2006 (RIP)