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Jay Lake
Date: 2008-12-31 05:42
Subject: [links] Link salad for New Year's Eve
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Famous literary hoaxes — (Thanks to [info]tetar.)

Browseable DVD Version of the Rosetta Disk now available — (Thanks to [info]willyumtx.)

Broadband on rails

Puzzling over the invisible economy — Freakonomics on virtual gifting.

?otD: Who watches the windmakers?



12/31/08
Body movement: 85 minute suburban walk
This morning's weigh-in: 220.4
Currently reading: The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade by Herman Melville

Originally published at jlake.com.

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Gary Emenitove
User: [info]garyomaha
Date: 2008-12-31 14:34 (UTC)
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Broadband on rails. Now there's possibly the most important scientific story to come across this year. (Exaggerate? ME??)

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Jay Lake
User: [info]jaylake
Date: 2008-12-31 14:37 (UTC)
Subject: (no subject)

I was thinking of you when I posted it...

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Steve
User: [info]anton_p_nym
Date: 2008-12-31 15:09 (UTC)
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Um, that dish receiver thing is nice but I already get broadband on rails without one. VIA Rail set up a cellular data network parallel to the Windsor-Quebec City corridor, and each passenger car has a cell modem and a wi-fi (802.11b, I guess to keep bandwidth use down) router installed. It works just like any other "hot spot" from a user perspective.

-- Steve's used it many times to get stuff done while en route.

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threeoutside
User: [info]threeoutside
Date: 2008-12-31 15:24 (UTC)
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The Rosetta Disc is amazing - I hadn't heard about that. You can now own an archive of all of the world's languages on one disc for $15???

It's a SF world fo' sho'.

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