Portal (was RE: Fundamentalist Wisdom)

2008-01-21 Thread Jim Sharkey
Robert Seeberger wrote: Jim Sharkey wrote: William T Goodall wrote: Evolution is a lie So is the cake. I was going to have a party and invite all your friends. I'm glad at least someone knew that one. Despite its brevity, I think Portal ought to be game of the year. It was fun, darkly

Life After People discussion

2008-01-21 Thread Nick Arnett
Not that I wish to send people away from our happy little mailing list, but loyalty to my employer calls for me to point out that there is a place for talking about it on the History Channel's online community: http://boards.historychannel.com/category.jspa?categoryID=70029 The community is

Joke of the Week

2008-01-21 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Probably a few won't find it funny... http://www.conservapedia.com/Theory_of_Evolution Alberto Monteiro ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Portal (was RE: Fundamentalist Wisdom)

2008-01-21 Thread Robert Seeberger
On 1/21/2008 7:06:27 AM, Jim Sharkey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Robert Seeberger wrote: Jim Sharkey wrote: William T Goodall wrote: Evolution is a lie So is the cake. I was going to have a party and invite all your friends. I'm glad at least someone knew that one. Despite its brevity, I

Re: David Brin on History Channel

2008-01-21 Thread hkhenson
At 01:00 PM 1/21/2008, David Brin wrote: Just a heads-up - Catch me on the History Channel's Life After People - January 21 at 9pm. A pretty cool show about how all our works may crumble, if we humans ever... well... vanish. I worked out a mechanism for this to happen.

Re: David Brin on History Channel

2008-01-21 Thread Doug Pensinger
Kieth wrote: I worked out a mechanism for this to happen. http://www.terasemjournals.org/GN0202/henson.html This is part of an unfinished longer story that describes a world carefully maintained by AIs that were designed from motivation up to *like* taking care of human works--especially

Re: Gmail

2008-01-21 Thread Amanda Marlowe
Oh, sorry, it's now the little arrow next to the reply link/button on the individual email. Used to be more options when I first wrote down the instructions. (I ended up not deleting things really.) One thing I'd like is a way to split threads, or close them to force them to restart... But I