September 2003
| 9/30/03 |
Notes From All Over posted by johnmscalzi (2 comments) Fire up your fingers, folks -- I want to hear what you think about these red-hot news s... |
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| 9/30/03 |
Technological Dead-Ends  posted by johnmscalzi (2 comments)Science fiction writer Bruce Sterling presents his list of Ten Technologies That Deserve to D... |
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| 9/30/03 |
Movies On Demand posted by johnmscalzi (4 comments) This is kind of interesting and cool but puzzling -- a set-top box from Disney which allows y... |
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| 9/30/03 |
Just a Small Extra Charge posted by johnmscalzi (0 comments) Off of the AOL Welcome Screen: Fees! Fees! Fees! -- a BusinessWeek article detailing how corp... |
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| 9/30/03 |
What Are They Saying? posted by johnmscalzi (4 comments) If there's one thing the citizens of the blogosphere love, it's finding out if anyone out the... |
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| 9/29/03 |
Your Documents, Please posted by johnmscalzi (0 comments) Out in the big bad blogoverse, online writers are on fire about the possible leak of a CIA ag... |
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| 9/29/03 |
One Small Request posted by johnmscalzi (4 comments) You know, I'm all about answering every question you might have about AOL Journals, because a... |
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| 9/29/03 |
Insensate With Glee posted by johnmscalzi (2 comments) The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King trailer. You'll need Quicktime. And, considerin |
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| 9/29/03 |
Already? posted by johnmscalzi (3 comments) Look who was waiting for me this morning when I got up -- our Halloween scarecrow and all his... |
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| 9/29/03 |
The Coolest News Story of the Day posted by johnmscalzi (1 comments) Fantagraphics to Reprint the Complete Peanuts They're going to publish two volumes a y... |
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| 9/28/03 |
Gesundheit, Mr. President posted by johnmscalzi (2 comments) Ever wonder whether your presidents were full of infections and disease? Sure you do. And now... |
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| 9/28/03 |
Capitals in Your URLS posted by johnmscalzi (3 comments) Just in the last day I've been getting a ton of mail about this: People are sending me e-mail... |
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| 9/27/03 |
Cheese! posted by johnmscalzi (5 comments) <A href="http://edit.journals.aol.com/_do/<img%20src=" http: www.danielhsia.com images ... |
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| 9/27/03 |
On Searching posted by johnmscalzi (4 comments) Okay, something I should have addressed a long time ago but haven't because apparently I'm an... |
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| 9/26/03 |
Friday Fun! posted by johnmscalzi (1 comments) After the cheerfulness of that last post (ahem), I felt the need to leave you all with someth... |
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| 9/26/03 |
Poverty and News Cycles posted by johnmscalzi (0 comments) Poverty is up in the United States -- 1.7 million more in poverty in 2002 than the year befor... |
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| 9/26/03 |
Friday Entertainment Notes posted by johnmscalzi (6 comments) A couple of entertainment notes for this Friday: * I'm not the first guy to have a mad... |
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| 9/26/03 |
What? Another Debate? posted by johnmscalzi (1 comments) Call it the latent activities programmer in me, but if I were to schedule a debate of the 10 ... |
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| 9/26/03 |
Comment No-Nos posted by johnmscalzi (12 comments) I just spent several minutes of my life -- minutes I won't get back, thank you very much entr... |
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| 9/25/03 |
Food Glorious Food posted by johnmscalzi (6 comments) My wife has informed me that I'm on my own for food this evening, and that being the case, I ... |
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| 9/25/03 |
My Teeth, Recapped (it's a pun!) posted by johnmscalzi (1 comments) Thanks to those of you who sent in the nice letters of sympthy and commiseration regarding my... |
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| 9/25/03 |
The Newlyweds, Recapped posted by johnmscalzi (0 comments) I personally think I'd rather bathe my eyeballs in a solution of lye and metal shards than wa... |
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| 9/25/03 |
All Around the World posted by johnmscalzi (0 comments) <A href="http://edit.journals.aol.com/_do/<img%20SRC=" http: hometown.aol.com johnmscal... |
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| 9/25/03 |
The Debate -- Or TRON? posted by johnmscalzi (1 comments) Last night I had a choice of watching the California Gubernatorial Debate or playing |
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| 9/24/03 |
My Teef! My Teef! posted by johnmscalzi (1 comments) Okay, I'm outta here for the day. I have to prepare mentally and physically for a dentist appoint... |
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| 9/24/03 |
Mmmm...Rising Stars posted by johnmscalzi (0 comments) A little birdie told me that members of the band Last Week have started an AOL Journal, and t... |
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| 9/24/03 |
What They Said posted by johnmscalzi (6 comments) Grammarians, and those who would like to strangle them, will get a kick out of this article a... |
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| 9/24/03 |
Favorite Sites and Other Journals posted by johnmscalzi (3 comments) E-mails from the AOL Journal masses! Saying: Hey! I have more Favorite Sites and Other Journa... |
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| 9/24/03 |
Better Off? posted by johnmscalzi (2 comments) This morning AOL is pointing to an interesting article off the front screen, which makes the ... |
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| 9/23/03 |
Busy Busy Busy posted by johnmscalzi (2 comments) This is one of those news days that journalism students dream about. In the space of an after... |
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| 9/23/03 |
Doom! posted by johnmscalzi (0 comments) If you're as video game geeky as I am, you're going to want to feast your eyes on this trio o... |
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| 9/23/03 |
Mom at Work posted by johnmscalzi (3 comments) Working Mother magazine has released its list of the 100 most "mom-friendly" companies in the... |
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| 9/23/03 |
The Tigers' Magic Number is 2 posted by johnmscalzi (1 comments) As I think I've mentioned, I'm not a huge sports fan, but I am unquestionably a fan of utter ... |
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| 9/23/03 |
Finding Other Journals, Part II posted by johnmscalzi (0 comments) Yesterday I wrote about ways to find AOL Journals that match your interests. Now I want to sh... |
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| 9/22/03 |
Meow, Baby posted by johnmscalzi (2 comments) The author of this column suggests that researchers have discovered that owning cats leads to... |
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| 9/22/03 |
Finding Other Journals, Part I posted by johnmscalzi (1 comments) One of the questions I get most from you fine folks with AOL Journals is that you want a good... |
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| 9/22/03 |
Sickness posted by johnmscalzi (3 comments) We've got a fair amount of illness running (well, shuffling) around the house at the moment -... |
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| 9/22/03 |
The Emmys! posted by johnmscalzi (3 comments) I'm sure someone won something at the Emmy Awards last night, but right off the top of my hea... |
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| 9/22/03 |
Music to Your Ears posted by johnmscalzi (5 comments) AOL Journaler Viviansullinwank is showing the creativity and imagination we here at AOL Journ... |
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| 9/21/03 |
You Are There posted by johnmscalzi (3 comments) Journaling and blogging are about personal observations, but that's not just about cats and s... |
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| 9/21/03 |
Fall, Sunday, Etc. posted by johnmscalzi (1 comments) The picture above represents what the first day of Fall looks like from my front porch: So fa... |
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| 9/20/03 |
Goodbye Galileo posted by johnmscalzi (2 comments) <A href="http://edit.journals.aol.com/_do/<img%20src=" http: galileo.jpl.nasa.gov graph... |
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| 9/20/03 |
One Way of Doing It posted by johnmscalzi (0 comments) <A href="http://edit.journals.aol.com/_do/<img%20src=" http: magnatune.com images magna... |
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| 9/19/03 |
Asking for Links posted by johnmscalzi (2 comments) Okay, let's take a moment and step into John Scalzi's Blog School, for an education in all th... |
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| 9/19/03 |
A Clean Slate? posted by johnmscalzi (2 comments) The Christian Science Monitor has a column in which the contributors grapple with ethical iss... |
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| 9/19/03 |
Best. Rock Criticism. EVER. posted by johnmscalzi (1 comments) Fifth-graders listen to Radiohead. Are encouraged to draw how the music makes them feel. The ... |
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| 9/19/03 |
A Good Reason to Move to England posted by johnmscalzi (3 comments) The United Kingdom outlaws spam -- and, rather more importantly, imposes a hefty fine ($8,000... |
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| 9/19/03 |
Avast! posted by johnmscalzi (2 comments) Remember, today be International Talk Like a Pirate Day, so I expect all o' ye ta go around swagg... |
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| 9/18/03 |
AOL Journalers On... posted by johnmscalzi (5 comments) Okay, then. Let's see what AOLers are thinking about stuff. First: Hurricane Isabel, which is... |
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| 9/18/03 |
Go Vols! posted by johnmscalzi (3 comments) When love of college football goes too far. Say, to Iraq. I have to admit I'm just not... |
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| 9/18/03 |
Your Change, Sir posted by johnmscalzi (5 comments) Think it's easy giving change? Think again: This change maker quiz puts you in charge of the till... |
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| 9/18/03 |
Good News posted by johnmscalzi (1 comments) Two pieces of good news today in two very different forms. First, the US Government is... |
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| 9/18/03 |
Arrr! posted by johnmscalzi (1 comments) Avast! Tomorrow is International Talk Like a Pirate Day, and I wanted to make sure you got en... |
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| 9/17/03 |
Criticism posted by johnmscalzi (13 comments) <A href="http://edit.journals.aol.com/_do/<img%20SRC=" align="right" VSPACE="2" HSPACE=... |
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| 9/17/03 |
Clark: I'm In. Who's Out? posted by johnmscalzi (0 comments) So, Wesley Clark's in the race for President, which makes a nice round number of 10 Democrati... |
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| 9/17/03 |
Miscellaneous Links posted by johnmscalzi (0 comments) Some links to keep y'all informed and amused this fine Wednesday. * Call this Fun With... |
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| 9/17/03 |
Knock, Knock. Who's There? posted by johnmscalzi (3 comments) <A href="http://edit.journals.aol.com/_do/<img%20src=" 20030916235809990010? 03 0a aoln... |
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| 9/17/03 |
Speel Chekk posted by johnmscalzi (1 comments) A couple of AOL Journal-related things here. First, yesterday afternoon I had something that'... |
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| 9/17/03 |
Breakfast of Champions! posted by johnmscalzi (7 comments) Behold! The fuel that powers me through my morning of AOL Journaling: M&Ms and Diet Cherr... |
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| 9/16/03 |
Good News for Bad Typists posted by johnmscalzi (13 comments) The blogosphere is afire with a particular paragraph which purports to provide evidence that ... |
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| 9/16/03 |
Multiple Pictures posted by johnmscalzi (0 comments) I've been asked if by inserting pictures into AOL Journals through the "Create Hyperlink" but... |
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| 9/16/03 |
Can't Get No Satisfaction posted by johnmscalzi (0 comments) Mick Jagger is apparently shocked to find that women 30 years younger than he (or more) aren'... |
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| 9/16/03 |
Isabel's Impending Visit posted by johnmscalzi (0 comments) Here comes Isabel, and AOL Journalers among others are |
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| 9/15/03 |
Ooooh -- a contest. posted by johnmscalzi (1 comments) My corporate overlords at AOL (who I love!) have created a contest that involves AOL Journals... |
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| 9/15/03 |
Pictures in Your Journal -- A New Way posted by johnmscalzi (2 comments) <A href="http://edit.journals.aol.com/_do/<img%20SRC=" align="right" VSPACE="2" HSPACE=... |
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| 9/15/03 |
A Gray Day posted by johnmscalzi (3 comments) The California recall election is delayed, and it's no surprise that in every photo accompany... |
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| 9/15/03 |
Upgrade Complete! posted by johnmscalzi (4 comments) So, here it is: A 2003 Honda Odyssey EX. Yes, it's a minivan. And no, the dog is not la |
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| 9/15/03 |
Upgrade posted by johnmscalzi (3 comments) This is my Ford Escort, which I bought a dozen years ago when I was young and poor, and which... |
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| 9/14/03 |
Making Lists, Making Links posted by johnmscalzi (1 comments) There's one thing I like better than showing you AOL Journal folks how to do things, and that... |
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| 9/14/03 |
Film Theory posted by johnmscalzi (1 comments) Allow me to be a film geek for just a second and point out this (long) L.A. Times article on |
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| 9/13/03 |
Control Your Comments posted by johnmscalzi (2 comments) Much of the fun of AOL Journals is that your readers can comment on your entries, to make the... |
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| 9/13/03 |
John Ritter posted by johnmscalzi (3 comments) I'm getting mail and comments asking how I could remember Johnny Cash and forget John Ritter.... |
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| 9/12/03 |
Fun With Perpetual Motion posted by johnmscalzi (0 comments) Here's some fun science to ease you into your weekend: The Museum of Unworkable Devices. It f... |
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| 9/12/03 |
Flash Mobs: Your 15 Minutes Are Up posted by johnmscalzi (0 comments) This article in Wired News has the "inventor" of flash mobs -- those weird assemblages of peo... |
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| 9/12/03 |
Duh posted by johnmscalzi (4 comments) I kvetched about the RIAA a few days ago regarding its ridiculous amnesty deal, but I missed ... |
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| 9/12/03 |
He Walked the Line posted by johnmscalzi (3 comments) This is not been a good week for people who like their music to come from grown-ups. First we... |
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| 9/12/03 |
Disappearing Comments? posted by johnmscalzi (2 comments) Let me be the first to admit that sometimes I'm a little slow on the pickup, which means that... |
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| 9/11/03 |
Beautiful Ordinary Day posted by johnmscalzi (3 comments) This 9/11 is like that 9/11 in a lot of ways. Like that one, where I live, this one has been ... |
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| 9/11/03 |
More 9/11 Thoughts posted by johnmscalzi (0 comments) Some more thoughts on 9/11: James Lileks meditates on the end of the world. Le... |
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| 9/11/03 |
Lawns posted by johnmscalzi (3 comments) Allow me to intersperse some inconsequentiality into the 9/11-ness of the day to direct y'all... |
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| 9/11/03 |
In their Own Words posted by johnmscalzi (1 comments) To begin, the excellent compendium of recollection at Voices: Stories From 9/11 and Beyond, w... |
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| 9/11/03 |
Remembering 9/11 posted by johnmscalzi (0 comments) Two years to the day after the 9/11 attacks, it's perfectly natural that some people (here and |
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| 9/10/03 |
Back at the Cottage posted by johnmscalzi (0 comments) When he's not ruling over the blogosphere as InstaPundit or terrorizing hapless future esquir... |
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| 9/10/03 |
Coming up from AOL Journals posted by johnmscalzi (2 comments) One of the things I like about the AOL Journalers (and I mean that seriously, I'm not being a... |
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| 9/10/03 |
Two Things posted by johnmscalzi (0 comments) First: The Yeah Yeah Yeahs totally rock. I'm listening to their album |
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| 9/10/03 |
Stern and the End of the World posted by johnmscalzi (0 comments) If Howard Stern's show is a news program, then I'm Joan of Arc. And I have to tell you, I don... |
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| 9/10/03 |
Finding Your Archives posted by johnmscalzi (0 comments) Letter from an AOL Journaler: How can I make my journal so that it shows all my entri... |
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| 9/9/03 |
Cosmic Discovery in the Key of B Flat posted by johnmscalzi (3 comments) This is why science is more fun than people think: They've discovered that black holes sing. ... |
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| 9/9/03 |
Sending in Links and Other Stuff posted by johnmscalzi (0 comments) Hey there. I'm getting a growing number of you sending in links, which is very cool, since I ... |
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| 9/9/03 |
One Word: Yay! posted by johnmscalzi (0 comments) Opus is coming back to comic pages, marking a far better utilization of a penguin than |
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| 9/9/03 |
Money -- That's What I Want! posted by johnmscalzi (2 comments) The new $20 bills are on their way in a month, and I have to say, I kind of dig them. Several... |
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| 9/9/03 |
Leni Riefenstahl posted by johnmscalzi (1 comments) Leni Riefenstahl has just died, which makes her (I'm almost certain) the last N |
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| 9/8/03 |
One Small Thing... posted by johnmscalzi (1 comments) I've gotten a couple of e-mail on this, so I thought I'd trot it out to make sure y'all knew ... |
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| 9/8/03 |
Remembering 9/11 posted by johnmscalzi (8 comments) Thursday will mark the second anniversary of 9/11, and I think it's entirely appropriate that... |
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| 9/8/03 |
Weird Gurls, Cool Links posted by johnmscalzi (0 comments) Pamela Ribon, whose web journal I've raved about to no end here and other places, has decided... |
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| 9/8/03 |
The Speech and Other News posted by johnmscalzi (1 comments) News, news, news: President Bush made his case for $87 billion in new funding for Ira... |
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| 9/8/03 |
Warren Zevon posted by johnmscalzi (3 comments) Warren Zevon's dead and I don't feel so good myself. There's a tremendous amount about Zevon ... |
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| 9/7/03 |
Science Moves in Strange and Mysterious (and Drunken) Ways posted by johnmscalzi (0 comments) Science marches forward! Well, staggers, maybe. But no matter how you look at it, this is pos... |
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| 9/7/03 |
AOL Journaler Links posted by johnmscalzi (1 comments) Happy Sunday! For your consideration today, I have a couple of links sent into me by AOL Jour... |
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| 9/6/03 |
Fall is Here posted by johnmscalzi (14 comments) Poor, poor swingset. Its days are numbered. No, we're not planning to chop it up into kindlin... |
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| 9/6/03 |
Obligatory Cat Picture posted by johnmscalzi (1 comments) One e-mail I got said: "Hey John, you've been doing this journal for two weeks now and you st... |
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| 9/5/03 |
Insanely Fun posted by johnmscalzi (7 comments) Here's a little game to get your weekend going. It's like Tetris, only more so, and if you can ge... |
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| 9/5/03 |
Appetite Shot Down posted by johnmscalzi (0 comments) I love stuff like this: Hormone Treatment Reduces Appetite. It seems the longer we live, the fewe... |
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| 9/5/03 |
That's Entertainment! posted by johnmscalzi (3 comments) Hey, it's Friday -- I can be in an entertainment-y sort of mood today. I mean, yes, I could t... |
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| 9/5/03 |
Cover This posted by johnmscalzi (2 comments) The British magazine The Spectator discourses on really bad covers of great |
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| 9/5/03 |
Big Brother with a Boombox posted by johnmscalzi (0 comments) This report really gets me: The RIAA (that's the music industry's lobbying group) is reported... |
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| 9/4/03 |
A Small, Small World posted by johnmscalzi (5 comments) Here's a story that's been making the rounds in the blogoverse: Disneyland obsessives. These ... |
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| 9/4/03 |
Thrown Out posted by johnmscalzi (1 comments) Today's been a good day for throwing out silly court suits. The first one was down in Alabama... |
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| 9/4/03 |
Security Issues posted by johnmscalzi (1 comments) More security flaws from Microsoft, this time in just about every iteration |
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| 9/4/03 |
The Hit Counter posted by johnmscalzi (4 comments) Question from an AOL Journaler: I accidentally erased the box that tells me how many ... |
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| 9/4/03 |
Oooh! My first review! posted by johnmscalzi (1 comments) An AOL Journaler has provided the first review of my gig here (so far as I know), and it's he... |
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| 9/3/03 |
Are You Ready For Some Football, Blah Blah Blah posted by johnmscalzi (1 comments) So, I have a fantasy football team, a fact which is deeply amusing to anyone who knows me. My... |
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| 9/3/03 |
Note to Self: You're Old posted by johnmscalzi (5 comments) It's time for that annual list from Beloit College designed specifically to let adults realiz... |
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| 9/3/03 |
Bye Bye CDs posted by johnmscalzi (2 comments) In the "Stating the Obvious" category, this bit from CNN, declaring that the CD is d... |
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| 9/3/03 |
Making Links posted by johnmscalzi (6 comments) Okay, more questions from you wonderful AOL Journal folks. You're wondering how to make a lin... |
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| 9/3/03 |
More Sarcasm, Please posted by johnmscalzi (2 comments) Here's an interesting petition for AOL, from someone who is asking the company to create a "s... |
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| 9/2/03 |
Overturned posted by johnmscalzi (3 comments) So, I'm interested in what y'all think about the 111 death penalties in Arizona, Montana and ... |
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| 9/2/03 |
You're Rich! posted by johnmscalzi (0 comments) Feeling a little low about your paycheck? This site should cheer you up: Global Rich List. Enter ... |
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| 9/2/03 |
Change and Style posted by johnmscalzi (0 comments) Today I've begun swapping out links in the Other Journals sidebar -- I've swapped The Dynamis... |
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| 9/2/03 |
Pasting HTML posted by johnmscalzi (1 comments) Got a question from someone who went to one of those internet quiz sites -- the ones that com... |
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| 9/2/03 |
Look! In The Sky! posted by johnmscalzi (1 comments) Thanks to everyone who sent e-mail telling me they hoped I had a good trip back from Canada -... |
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| 9/1/03 |
Going Home posted by johnmscalzi (7 comments) Torcon is winding down, and later today (it's 1:56 am right at the moment), I'll be driving b... |