Alliance for Progress Encyclopedia Wiki?

2007-05-13 Thread Trent Shipley
Translating the uplift encyclopedia into a wiki format is feasible. Would anyone be interested in having it in that form? There don't seem to have been any contributions for ages. Does anyone have ideas about how we would protect David Brin's intellectual property if the Encyclopedia used a wi

Re: Presented without comment.

2007-05-13 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: "David Hobby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2007 10:21 PM Subject: Re: Presented without comment. > Robert Seeberger wrote: > >>> Throat cancer linked to virus spread by sex >>> Cancer of the throat and tonsi

Re: What happens to people when they get old?

2007-05-13 Thread Julia Thompson
Ronn! Blankenship wrote: > At 10:04 PM Sunday 5/13/2007, Robert G. Seeberger wrote: >> The kids at my daughter's pre-school were asked to describe what >> happens to people when they get old. >> >> >> *** >> >> Some of these are pretty funny.

Re: What happens to people when they get old?

2007-05-13 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 10:04 PM Sunday 5/13/2007, Robert G. Seeberger wrote: >The kids at my daughter's pre-school were asked to describe what >happens to people when they get old. > > >*** > >Some of these are pretty funny. I didn't get any list or any link to

Re: Presented without comment.

2007-05-13 Thread David Hobby
Robert Seeberger wrote: >> Throat cancer linked to virus spread by sex >> Cancer of the throat and tonsils can arise from infection with >> a >> sexually transmitted virus. >> ... > > Now that you mention politics...

What happens to people when they get old?

2007-05-13 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://www.flickr.com/photos/frauenfelder/sets/72157600208546405/detail/ The kids at my daughter's pre-school were asked to describe what happens to people when they get old. *** Some of these are pretty funny. xponent The Kids Are Alr

Re: Presented without comment.

2007-05-13 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: "Ronn! Blankenship" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2007 9:29 PM Subject: Re: Presented without comment. > At 09:22 PM Sunday 5/13/2007, Robert Seeberger wrote: >>- Original Message - >>From: "Ronn! Blankenship" <[E

Re: Presented without comment.

2007-05-13 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 09:22 PM Sunday 5/13/2007, Robert Seeberger wrote: >- Original Message - >From: "Ronn! Blankenship" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Killer Bs Discussion" >Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2007 5:22 PM >Subject: Re: Presented without comment. > > > > At 01:55 PM Saturday 5/12/2007, Robert G. Seeberger

Re: Presented without comment.

2007-05-13 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: "Ronn! Blankenship" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2007 5:22 PM Subject: Re: Presented without comment. > At 01:55 PM Saturday 5/12/2007, Robert G. Seeberger wrote: >>On 5/12/2007 1:26:38 PM, Ronn! Blankenship >>([EMAIL

Re: Shaping the future

2007-05-13 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
On 5/13/2007 9:09:13 PM, Ronn! Blankenship ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > At 08:50 PM Sunday 5/13/2007, Robert G. Seeberger wrote: > >Herein, > > > > Wherein? > > > > >the (choose your superlative) Charlie Stross cogitates on the > >future and what it may bring. > >This folks, is one of those reall

Re: Shaping the future

2007-05-13 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 08:50 PM Sunday 5/13/2007, Robert G. Seeberger wrote: >Herein, Wherein? >the (choose your superlative) Charlie Stross cogitates on the >future and what it may bring. >This folks, is one of those really good and interesting essays, the >kind one waits around for years to read. There is a lo

Shaping the future

2007-05-13 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/05/shaping_the_future.html Herein, the (choose your superlative) Charlie Stross cogitates on the future and what it may bring. This folks, is one of those really good and interesting essays, the kind one waits around for years to read. There is a

Encyclopedia of Life: Better Than Wikipedia?

2007-05-13 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/13/encyclopedia-of-life-better-than-wikipedia/ Formally announced during the week with funding of $12.5 million, Encyclopedia of Life ( http://www.eol.org/ ) aims to be an online reference source and database for every one of the 1.8 million species that are n

Re: SPOILER ALERT - Jericho

2007-05-13 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 05:19 PM Sunday 5/13/2007, jon louis mann wrote: >has anyone been watching jericho? >http://www.cbs.com/primetime/jericho/ > >post apocalyptic series about covert intelligence gents who fake a >terrorist plot nuking several american cities, including washington >d.c. one undercover fbi agent in

SPOILER ALERT - Jericho

2007-05-13 Thread jon louis mann
has anyone been watching jericho? http://www.cbs.com/primetime/jericho/ post apocalyptic series about covert intelligence gents who fake a terrorist plot nuking several american cities, including washington d.c. one undercover fbi agent infiltrates and steals one of the nukes, which can be trace

Re: GeoCaching

2007-05-13 Thread Charlie Bell
On 13/05/2007, at 10:52 PM, Gary Nunn wrote: > > If your not familiar with GeoCaching, basically "caches" are hidden > all > around the world, and then logged into a database with their > coordinates and > a few very basic hints. The object of the game is to download the > different > cache

GeoCaching

2007-05-13 Thread Gary Nunn
Not sure if you can call GeoCaching a sport, but the kids and I recently discovered it and became completely hooked. Reading the webpage GeoCaching.com, it almost sounds like the white-hot action of watching golf or bowling on TV. If your not familiar with GeoCaching, basically "caches" are hid