links for 2007-08-28
Posted on August 29, 2007 - Filed Under links | Leave a Comment
Strange Horizons Fiction: Practicing My Sad Face, by Marc Schultz
I wake up every morning at 7:00 a.m. when my eyes turn on. If I leave them on at night, the background connection sends shades of gray drifting through the darkness. This makes it hard to sleep. Dr. Anderson asked if I can see in my [...]
links for 2007-08-21
Posted on August 22, 2007 - Filed Under links | Leave a Comment
Strange Horizons Fiction: Little Ambushes, by Joanne Merriam
Practically the first thing she did when she took in the alien was to give him a new name. He looked at her outstretched hand long enough to annoy her, and then grasped it with his four opposable fingers and hung on limply until she wrenched her hand [...]
links for 2007-08-19
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Belgium Rail Travel
(tags: travel belgium rail)
links for 2007-08-13
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Strange Horizons Fiction: The Girl From Another World, by Leah Bobet
The girl from another world is waiting for me in Allan Gardens.
I see her with her hair loose and dirty, her smudged cheekbones, her archaic clothes which hang too wide on a body too thin. She sees me back in my uniform and my makeup [...]
links for 2007-08-07
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Strange Horizons Fiction: Artifice and Intelligence, by Tim Pratt, illustration by Mack Sztaba
While his former colleagues laboring on the Brain Project concentrated on the generally-accepted paths to artificial intelligence—Bayesian networks, machine learning, data mining, fuzzy systems, case-based reasoning—Edgar Adleman, despondent and disgr
(tags: fiction sf free * *toconvert)
links for 2007-08-06
Posted on August 7, 2007 - Filed Under links | Leave a Comment
Rainbows End
The first bit of dumb luck came disguised as a public embarrassment for the European Center for Defense against Disease. On July 23, schoolchildren in Algiers claimed that a respiratory epidemic was spreading across the Mediterranean. The claim was based
(tags: fiction free sf)
links for 2007-08-03
Posted on August 4, 2007 - Filed Under links | Leave a Comment
Creating a Virtual Postscript Printer in Windows using Ghostscript
This web page provides step by step instructions on how to create a virtual Postscript printer under Windows XP. The actual output device is any printer you might own or specify.
(tags: printing linux postscript windows howto)
links for 2007-08-01
Posted on August 2, 2007 - Filed Under links | Leave a Comment
BrickArms
BrickArms offers building-toy compatible custom weapons, weapons packs, and custom minifigs. All are designed and produced to meet the highest standards of quality. All toys mesh perfectly with your Lego universe, and I have sold thousands to satisfied cu
(tags: lego toys cool weapons)
links for 2007-07-31
Posted on August 1, 2007 - Filed Under links | Leave a Comment
PIM Backup - Dotfred’s Space
This looks like a very useful windows mobile utility that will allow me to back up PIM details to a SD card which I can then sync with linux and restore.
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Strange Horizons Fiction: Wake-Up Call, by Leslie Brown
The nursing home called just as I was heading [...]