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Posted on Tuesday, 25 September, 2007 By yours truly | TOOLS: Talk or Share
Another well-done screed in favor of giving books away online as a way of increasing readership and selling more printed copies by Cory Doctorow appears in Locus Magazine. While he focuses on sci-fi, it’s an argument that can easily be applied to other genres, such as the current cottage industry of Rational-Lit.
Paging Richard Dawkins: If The God Delusion is so damned important for society than you really should consider posting an electronic version on your website with a Creative Commons license. If the goal is reaching people, than it might offer a little more to your site than geeky “scarlet letter” T-shirts and attempts to get people to flyer for your book. It’s cheap, man. Just cheap.
Five NonFic books too important to be kept bound to the paper realm yet which I am linking to:
Posted on Tuesday, 25 September, 2007 By yours truly | TOOLS: Talk or Share
National Novel Writing Month kicks off in just about a month + a week’s time. To celebrate, here’s this.
Posted on Tuesday, 18 September, 2007 By yours truly | TOOLS: Talk or Share
Let’s start with the incident on Sunday, September 16.
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Posted on Saturday, 8 September, 2007 By yours truly | TOOLS: Talk or Share
Jeeze. Just back in Oly and I’m already innit. Created a quicky group blog over at blogspot for the folks taking on Rep. Brian Baird over his recent conversion from war critic to surge zealot.
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We are voters in the 3rd Congressional District who were mistakenly under the impression that we were electing a representative. Brian Baird was that representative. Originally critical of the ongoing debacle in Iraq, something happened to him along the way. Something strange. Following his most recent trip to the Green Zone, he became surge happy. Here, we try to explore what happened to Brian, and how we can determine whether he’s been replaced by a robot.
Check out Baird Watch.
Read,
comment,
link,
post.
But above all, don’t turn your back on Brian Baird for a second. He’s more dangerous than bunnies (see previous post for reference).
Posted on Saturday, 8 September, 2007 By yours truly | TOOLS: Talk or Share
the secret danger of bunnies:
Posted on Wednesday, 5 September, 2007 By yours truly | TOOLS: Talk or Share
Former Democrat Brian Baird’s GOP arm band is in the mail. After a year away, I’ve returned to Olympia to discover that my supposed 3 rd Congressional District representative “Drank the Kool-Aid” and is now all surge-a-go-go after having some Green Zone embedded love-in with some Iraqi occupation tour guides.
The “brave” political leader who once decried the war as the mistake it was is now talking about success on the ground and how victory is right around the corner. One wonders which Iraq Mr. Baird was visiting. Maybe they let him off the plane in Seatac and he didn’t notice.
He apparently missed talking with General Sir Mike Jackson and a few of veterans of the Iraq occupation who also took tours that led to slightly different conclusions.
Still, even though he’s lost the smug, Democrat-hugging quasi-anti-war group MoveOn, he’s not alone. The White House front group (somewhat embarrassing when your government feels the need to create a front group) Freedom’s Watch has stepped forward as a foster parent for the little lost blond polito suddenly without a home.
Some see this as a horrible thing. I’d like to thank Baird. He’s launched a much needed salvo in a conflict long needed among those in the supposed party of the left. Democrats helped cause the war in Iraq, have helped continue the occupation of it and are helping ferment the civil war that looms there now. We need to know where they stand before heading to the polls. Brian’s been pretending long enough. I’m glad to see he’s stopped. Let’s hope the others follow suit so we can get back to at least a two-party system again. One is a little lonely.
So first off, Brian, thanks for the honesty. Secondly, sod off.
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We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
