Flametoad

I want to thank everyone for the birthday well-wishes yesterday. They really made my day, and certainly helped balance out the hour and a half I spent waiting to get a new driver’s license. But enough about me. Let’s look at where our future is heading.
First, for all you e-book nay-sayers, just wait. "Meanwhile, [...]

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This lamp has to win the “coolest thing I’ve seen today” award. Apparently it’s just in concept stage, but if you want one yourself please visit the designer’s site and let him know you’re interested.
In other news, the Telegraph reports that China Threatens Dollar Sales. In short, China has vast holdings of US treasuries, [...]

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You may remember back in March I posted a video called Shift Happens. The authors have updated it with new statistics, new music that doesn’t infringe on someone’s copyright, and re-edited to be less “alarmist”. Personally, I thought the alarmism in the first version was appropriate. You don’t wake people up by playing it safe. [...]

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If you stop to think about it, the choices we make for our online avatars are rather fascinating, don’t you think? I was married and had my first kid right around the time MMOs became big, so I never got hooked*. However, I post of probably close to half a dozen forums and lurk on [...]

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Jerry Pournelle has posted a short article on his website about how China is changing the 200 year status quo in the steel trade. It is certainly an article worth reading because we’ll be seeing the same thing repeated in many other industries. For instance, remember that for all you read and hear about how [...]

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