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While there are lots of good normal attractions in Orlando and the Space Coast, the geek consumer in me has always liked Sci Fi City. Haven't been in about a decade, but the internet says it's still there....
Commented on The cult of justice
I see government as a way to mediate interactions between people. As you grow beyond Dunbar's Number, you can't have social pressures keep transactions fair; therefore the need for government to mediate those interactions. While my argument has been based...
Commented on Marking time, more thoughts
It's late here in the US, but CalculatedRisk is a good blog to search through for lots of good commentary on this. Some of the US Participation rate is demographics (baby boomers retiring), and some is that more people are...
Commented on "Fuck every cause that ends in murder and children crying" — Iain Banks, 1954-2013
What would be a good first Culture book? While the chronologically first Culture book is Consider Phlebas, I think most people will be most easily introduced by Use of Weapons, since it follows a surprisingly military sci-fi fold for Banks....
Commented on "Fuck every cause that ends in murder and children crying" — Iain Banks, 1954-2013
He was intensely political, and he infused his science fiction with a conviction that a future was possible in which people could live better This was one of the themes that I think made the Culture so appealing. Each of...

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jeffrey.eric.fisher commented on Vacation
Note: it most certainly was gone for a while. Google "ok maps" or "okay maps" and you will find a number of postings of how to do it during that, recently ended, dark age....
Jerry commented on Vacation
Speaking of the NHS 5 minutes after typing the diabetes comment/question I dived head first down 13 stairs, was removed to casualty, where they decided I needed my spleen out. Which they took. I then hemorrhaged, and lost 5 liters of blood. ( q: how do you loose 2Kg of unsightly tissue?). 3 days in ITU, then 3 in acute surgical care, now out. Note, it was a murder plot by my cat! Now on antibiotics for life... Anyway, still alive and still reading!!...
aggray commented on Vacation
I used to live in Orlando in the 90s, there's a ton of stuff to do around there though I'm not up on the more recent things. It looks like there are a lot of good suggestions above. In general, any sort of nature-based attraction like the various springs are good. Florida has a geology and ecology you won't see in Europe, and they get more locals rather than tourists. If you have time, booking an airboat ride is a lot of fun. Nothing quite like zooming through alligator territory on a boat propelled by a giant fan and driven...
douglasi34 commented on Vacation
TomTom for iOS stores all the maps locally and is thus a gigantic app (1.9GB for UK and western Europe on my iPhone) and buying overseas maps is easily done, they're all in the UK app store. I haven't tried it on an iPad mini or similar Android device, but in general I've found it to be much better than the dedicated TomTom I had before. It feels pricey for an app, but as far as I know it's cheaper than the equivalent dedicated satnav, and one less thing to carry around or charge....
ARNOLD commented on Vacation
No doubt OGH will be on his way home real soon now from Orlando, Florida and so is unlikly to need this sage advice on Alligators, but, just in case you should encounter the local 'gators Charlie .. however humane your intent DO NOT ATTEMPT TO MOVE THE ALIGATORS from the path of your car; apparently T Shirts don't work as field expedient blindfolds! Who'd have thought it? ... " Alligator Attack: Attempt To Move Alligator Backfires 1 day 7 hours ago, Barcroft TV A lucky motorist got away with just a SNAP on the wrist - after trying to...

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

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