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Commented on Spoiler Thread
Came in here to remark on this. We should probably be very aware that Bob is an unreliable narrator with a slew of issues that could lead to him rambling on and on, unaware that he's repeating himself a lot....
Commented on Making history personal
Oldest building slept in will probably be the Youth Hostel in Bacharach, Germany, because they repurposed an old castle for it: http://www.jugendherberge.de/en/hostels/search/portrait/jh.jsp?IDJH=390 Which has probably been built around the 12th century CE. Oldest building I've actually been in would probably...
Commented on The Anthropic Stupidity Hypothesis
As long as the occurrence of those outliers is sufficient for the scientific advances thus far accrued....

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)