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Not exactly in the tech product area, but Wil Wheaton has spun his relative fame from Star Trek into a widely read blog, and then a couple of books, and speaking appearances, and other writing for the LA Times, Suicide Girls, various comic books, etc.

Through is blog/twitter he's managed to associate himself with all things "geek" and found an audience who will buy his work.

how so?

Unfortunately, Davis went back to writing the same old shit after that story arc.

I hope it doesn't attain AI, bootstrap itself onto the internet and take over the world.

This happens all the time where I grew up in South Dakota, and, like you said, in St. Paul where I lived up until a few months ago. The pictures are cool, but they really don't do it justice. When this phenomenon is happening to every streetlight you can see in the city, it is pretty striking.

edit: when i say all the time, i mean on some of the coldest nights of the year, but it is a pretty frequent occurrence.

I came to write the same thing. I tend to use one space when posting in a forum like this but two spaces when I write a paper for class.

Immediately made me feel like I was playing Sim City 3000. Good memories.

Wasn't the earth on the brink of an ice age sometime in the '70s? I recall my aunts and uncles talking about this a few Thanksgivings ago.

I think the Pre looks interesting, but the biggest draw for me when it comes to the iPhone is the tight integration to my mac. If a smart phone isn't going to synch easily and seamlessly with my PC I'm not interested.

Is "Runet" a discrete internet, or is it just what Russian websites are seen to be a part of as a sort of internet language subculture?

I've always thought these kinds of sites are interesting. I would be afraid of getting hacked into a thousand pieces and thrown in a dumpster...

I'm not a programmer by any means. I am involved with writing though, and often I have to draw on other people's work to support an assertion I'm making. I just use some quotation marks "" and cite the author and page number at the end of the sentence (author #).

I know it isn't a one to one example, but I wonder why it is acceptable to quote and cite with no need for permission in literature, but when it comes to code people "own" their ideas?

It seems thinking outside the box isn't encouraged in schools. Is this because schools (especially schools for children) are more about socialization than they are for learning?

Sounds like a job for Myth Busters.

I don't speed read per se, but I have developed some techniques that help me digest what I need to digest when reading an assignment (I'm in grad school and the amount of reading assigned is obscene).

I love to read, and when I read for fun I start at the beginning and read to the end. This doesn't work when you have 500 pages to read spread across 4 classes.

Assuming you know what book you're reading and why you are reading it, and that you've gone through the table of contents so you know the shape of the book, let's say you're starting a new chapter:

Read the intro Read the conclusion *Read section headings and topic paragraphs -Hopefully now you know where you need to read more carefully and what you can skim

Sometimes you'll get sucked into what you are reading because it is so damn interesting. You could view this as negative, but I think that is positive. If you are really loving what you're reading, you're going to learn it better than you will if you don't care.

Anyway, I've given some thought to bondafide speed reading, but the above works well for me when I need to get through a bunch of pages and know I need to learn it well.

edit: I've gone back and read your question, sorry if my post response wasn't what you were looking for at all.