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Sunday, September 07, 2008 yesterday
Finished my first draft. Think it's total shit though.. that's normal, right?! Will look again with fresh eyes tomorrow.
Primed by a fairybomb, i shall sit here until i finish this short-story i owe @junkdnafiction for a project he's running.. yes. Muse, HTFU!
Richard Morgan, you have another fan; best new (to me) author since discovering Stross! Off to grab "Broken Angels" ASAP!
Sitting in the sun chair. Fresh coffee. Not moving 'til I finish reading the last part of Altered Carbon.
liking the idea of @wolven and @moonandserpent running a comix story: pushing new mind virii; prepping the world for the posthuman future.
cool premise, as herr Ellis pointed out.. reads well with DMZ too i reckon
Saturday, September 06, 2008 2 days ago
@lizbt also, re: ethonal with coffee grounds.. isn't that the wake-up drink of choice on BSG?!
Art Deco exhibit: Pretty much waiting for airship pirates to swoop in on a re-stocking raid.
Last night's dream: on the deck of the first GenerationShip to reach the edge of the galaxy; confronting a new abyss; meeting the Old Ones.
Meanwhile, embedding the ability to share vidz of your creature from within #Spore to #YouTube is smart *and* #fan-facing! - http://twur ...
Wondering how easy it is to extract the creature data from Spore and when we'll see people instantiating them with a 3D Printing service ...
Spore - oh so shiny and pretty; just amazed at the graphics.. being a God is *fun*.. played for 8hours straight, in shifts with @bindyc ...
Friday, September 05, 2008 3 days ago
Dolphin Rape Squads... 11:17 PM
Richard Connor and his team from the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, have spent more than a decade watching dolphins in Shark Bay, Western Australia. They were the first to notice that mature males tend to hang out in pairs or trios when consorting with females. The bond between such gang members is as strong as that between a mother and her calves, and stronger than any other social interaction among members of this 400-strong group. What is going on?
Connor soon realised that these male gangs were after just one thing: sex. A trio�let's call them the Sharks�will kidnap a sexually receptive female from her normal group and hold her prisoner for a month or more. There is no gentle courtship. Instead the Sharks herd their trophy around, using brute force including thumping and biting to keep her moving where they want. Meanwhile they mate with her, either one at a time or sometimes simultaneously.
By working together, members of the Sharks can limit the chances of a female escaping, while each still has a reasonable crack at fatherhood. But things don't always go according to plan. A rival gang�the Jets, say�may set its sights on this female. The Jets are smart enough not to attack the Sharks without first making sure they can outnumber the opposition. So they call in a favour from another gang with whom they regularly form what are called "second-order alliances". Stealing the female is then a breeze, and the beauty of this arrangement is that the Jets get to keep the girl, while their allies swim off knowing that they can call on their friends next time they go out raiding.
Through watching gang warfare in action, Connor and his team discovered that alliances within individual gangs are remarkably long-lived, lasting up to 12 years. "Stable alliances really seem to crystallise around sexual maturity," says Connor. Each duo or trio then forms second-order alliances with one or two other gangs�though only with one at a time. These coalitions tend to be more tenuous, generally lasting no more than a few years.
Unusual suspects - 31 July 1999 - New Scientist.
@xutraa muhahahah.. oh, is this thing on? um.. grr argh.. where's my Future Mars Colony Space Hareem.. damn you early adopters! Damn You!
@lizbt that's what i'm saying.. and i'll totally get onto that.. (um, when's xmas??)
@squozen i know, i know.. i just get this stupid idea sometimes that things should just.fucking.work... I'm stubborn like that.
At this point it's quicker just to make a list of people to let live. Also, escalating plans for trip to the desert ; may stay 40 days.
@G_A_P_S i just want the damn game.. now, and to be playing it.. not with the waiting
internal monologue being: "I've been gaming longer than you've been breathing you pimply-faced little fuck, so drop the 'tude or DIE!!!"
@squozen and no pants? or will they be..........................................in motion?!
You know that scene in the movie High Fidelity, with Tim Robbins? That just played out in my mind when trying to get Spore at the local EBz.
@squozen ok, but first you have to set up a nice big poster of Stephen Fry to watch us.. *it's the Law*!!
learning about Ethical Egoism.. thx to @wolven - http://twurl.nl/mqr4qa
just got my biggest landline bill since switching to NekkidDSL.. still less than line-rental.. you here that #Telstra? fuck you buddy!
@Spiraltwist i like it so much i'm about to install it at work too..
@lizbt only if we get to bring back the bro'n'sis companion team! i called dibs before you were even _born_!
@planetdamage i very much look forward to having this problem.. Tonight's the night!
today all my brain is saying is: SPORE, SPORE, SPORE, SPORE, SPORE, SPORE, SPORE, SPORE
@Wolven (metaphorically speaking of course) BURN IT ALL DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! just show me where to strike the match
@strixus but as i understand it, CC doesn't sit *on top* of existing IP laws, but in parallel, as (to me) a better alternative..
@strixus are you implying we need a good cleansing Apocalypse.. then, when we re-build we just scrap all the old BS and put CC in? or i ...
@strixus CC empowers the individual; current IP Law just maintains an ecology of laywers.. is say we wipe the slate clean and put CC in
Thursday, September 04, 2008 4 days ago
@alexschlotzer #CreativeCommons is a crucial part of the Future.. death to the MegaCorps and their stranglehold on "IntellectualProperty"!
And with Spore *finally* released a whole generation grows up auto-thinking in Long Zoom mode.. it's a big win for the Future!
@allisonr the way i'm reading the site is that you can buy it now, but it doesn't "activate" until Sept 7th.. is that the case?
looking at this again for the first time in.. months.. useful for travel blogging? or should i just use Twibble?! - http://bkite.com/...
well that just nails it! as soon as my shoulder and kneck stop aching, i'm signing up at the local Kali (filipino sticking fighting) school
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