Hyperiod Re: brin-l-books stats

At 02:17 AM 6/2/2004 -0700 Richard Baker wrote: >George said: > >> Concur, great series. Simmons can write. > >The first two are excellent, even if parts of _The Fall of Hyperion_ are >a mess and the ending isn't as clean as it should be. I was much less >impressed by the two Endymion books though

RE: Scouted: Sugar and ADHD?

> This article pooh-poohs the idea of food affecting the > behavior of children with ADHD. Major snippage... > I don't have any experience with ADHD children, but I > have plenty with hot* horses, and I guarantee you that > the type of grain supplement they receive _does_ My daughter has mode

Re: Atheists Purge History

On 3 Jun 2004, at 12:27 am, Dave Land wrote: And yet, the image of the goddess Pomona was permitted to remain. This is an outrage. If there were any Pomana worshippers in the area in question, they might well be objecting first... I don't think expired religions count in this question. They beco

Re: Atheists Purge History

And yet, the image of the goddess Pomona was permitted to remain. This is an outrage. Dave ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Army Issues Order to Stop U.S. Soldiers from Leaving

http://news.myway.com/top/article/id/294628|top|06-02-2004::13:07|reuters.html The U.S. Army has issued orders preventing thousands of soldiers designated to serve in Iraq or Afghanistan from leaving the military even when their volunteer service commitment ends, officials said on Wednesday. The

Enron Traders Caught On Tape

Page contains a link for a video of Enron employees behaving as described: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/06/01/eveningnews/main620626.shtml When a forest fire shut down a major transmission line into California, cutting power supplies and raising prices, Enron energy traders celebrated, CB

Re: Atheists Purge History

Damon Agretto wrote: Can someone post the whole article for those of us that don't want to start an account? Or do we have a Brin-L account thre too? I went to bugmenot.com, and found this account: user name: utesfan password: sierra

Re: brin-l-books stats

David Hobby wrote: > > Ah, what IS science fiction? I admit that the lines blur, so it > may be best to just appeal to authority. My own definition is that > Science Fiction books show slices of axiomatically derived alternate > realities. The author should start with a small number of non-stand

Re: Atheists Purge History

Can someone post the whole article for those of us that don't want to start an account? Or do we have a Brin-L account thre too? Damon. = Damon Agretto [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum." http://www.geocities

Re: Atheists Purge History

On 2 Jun 2004, at 9:04 pm, iaamoac wrote: In the sort of move that only The Fool could love, the ACLU has recently succeeded in purging references to the role of the Spanish Missions ins settling California in the Seal of the City of Los Angeles. After all, we all know that the City of Los Angeles

Weekly Chat Reminder

This is just a quick reminder that the Wednesday Brin-L chat is scheduled for 3 PM Eastern/2 PM Central time in the US, or 7 PM Greenwich time, so it started a little over an hour ago. There will probably be somebody there to talk to for at least eight hours after the start time. See my instruction

Atheists Purge History

In the sort of move that only The Fool could love, the ACLU has recently succeeded in purging references to the role of the Spanish Missions ins settling California in the Seal of the City of Los Angeles. After all, we all know that the City of Los Angeles was a virtual theocracy under the cur

Re: brin-l-books stats

On 31 May 2004, at 11:06 pm, William T Goodall wrote: Just to make things even more exciting I have calculated this table using a simple trimmed mean where a single 'best' and a single 'worst' rating are excluded and the remainder averaged. Since I'm throwing away two scores for each book each b

SpaceShipOne launches 21 June

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3770919.stm "Scaled Composites, the company behind the first private manned spacecraft, will launch it into space on 21 June carrying an as yet unnamed astronaut. SpaceShipOne is built by aerospace pioneer Burt Rutan who hopes to win the Ansari X-prize of $1

Re: Condoms contain carcinogen

> All testing employees were treated to dinner and a > movie first? Well I heard testing results were skewed as they were offered a cigarrette to smoke afterwards... Damon :P = Damon Agretto [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Qui desiderat pacem,

Re: Condoms contain carcinogen

In a message dated 6/2/2004 8:49:52 AM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The Chemical and Veterinary Investigation Institute in Stuttgart, Germany, said it found the carcinogen N-Nitrosamine present in 29 of 32 types of condoms it tested in simulated conditions. Simulated cond

Condoms contain carcinogen

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=571&ncid=751&e=1&u=/nm/20040528/hl_nm/health_germany_condoms_dc or http://tinyurl.com/24zm5 Study Says Condoms Contain Cancer-Causing Substance Fri May 28,12:09 PM ET BERLIN (Reuters) - Most condoms contain a cancer-causing chemical and their

Re: brin-l-books stats

On 2 Jun 2004, at 3:14 pm, Richard Baker wrote: Gary said: Everytime I fill it out it repeats the screen. It seems to do that with IE6 here, but Mozilla is fine. Cookies. You must accept them. Where browsers have several different levels from 'reject all' to 'accept all' move it at least a notch m

Propane, Turbines, and Energy Efficiency

<> Propane Drives Turbine To Harness Waste Heat, Reduce Pollution ... A new patent pending technology is available which replaces the steam turbine system with a Cascading Closed Loop Cycle (CCLC) system producing an increase in MW output

extralegal vrs legal

On his Web log, Mark Kleiman wrote about a program for ordinary Peruvians to replace `extralegal' property rights with legal property rights. Unfortunately, his initial take was wrong: http://WWW.markarkleiman.com/archives/_/2004/05/what_ive_learned_so_far_at_the_law_society_meetings.php

Re: brin-l-books stats

Gary said: > Everytime I fill it out it repeats the screen. It seems to do that with IE6 here, but Mozilla is fine. Rich ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: brin-l-books stats

On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 13:39:29 +0100, William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hmmm, am I registered for this as well? > > > > Not unless it's under a very different name and email address. Just go > to http://books.scattersoft.com , click the 'registration' link and > follow the instructions

C. S. Lewis space-travel books [was: brin-l-books stats]

Doug Pensinger wrote: > > Mentioning? Out of the Silent Planet was set on Mars, Peralandra on > Venus. Most of the science was ridiculous by todayâs standards but the > creation of alien species to tell a story, however allegorical, is really > the reason these books are classified as s.f. > Ther

Re: brin-l-books stats

Robert Seeberger wrote: > Thanks to Erik raving about how good Hyperion is a few months ago, I > finally read it after looking at the cover and *not* buying it for 20 > years or so. > > Gawrsh its great. I ended up reading all four books one after the > other and will read them again at some

Re: brin-l-books stats

William said: > Not unless it's under a very different name and email address. Just go > to http://books.scattersoft.com , click the 'registration' link and > follow the instructions. When I try this it says "Something or other mysteriously failed. Try again later. int(999)". http://www.cultur

Re: brin-l-books stats

On 2 Jun 2004, at 11:42 am, Gary Denton wrote: On Mon, 31 May 2004 23:06:48 +0100, William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://books.scattersoft.com So this is the SF top ten... Hmmm, am I registered for this as well? Not unless it's under a very different name and email address. Just go t

Re: brin-l-books stats

On Mon, 31 May 2004 23:06:48 +0100, William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://books.scattersoft.com > > So this is the SF top ten... > > Hyperion, Dan Simmons 1 > Foundation, Isaac Asimov =2 > Foundation and Empire, Isaac Asimov =2 > Second Foundation, Isaac

Re: brin-l-books stats

George said: > Concur, great series. Simmons can write. The first two are excellent, even if parts of _The Fall of Hyperion_ are a mess and the ending isn't as clean as it should be. I was much less impressed by the two Endymion books though. Rich ___

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Gautam Mukunda" wrote: > I hate to do a "me too" - but, me too. The whole > Hyperion series taken together ranks among the finest > works of science fiction I have ever read - offhand, I > can't think of _anything_ I would put ahead of it, and > only a handful of other books that are even close.

Re: brin-l-books stats

David Hobby wrote: > I honestly don't know. I've heard about it, and have no desire > to read it. It could be that I'm put off by the classical > allusions, present even in the titles. Heavy-handed references > to THE CLASSICS usually signal a pompous and self-important > author. Not that I'm

Re: brin-l-books stats

Robert Seeberger wrote: > Perdido Street Station is a Fantasy dressed up in Science Fiction > Drag. - PSS was a very, very hard book to read. I wrote a review that said something to the effect that "I hadn't had to wade thr