Props to PETA
Now I’m an animal lover and generally a vegetarian … not too much of a radical, armchair version for me, please. But I have to respect the good folks at PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of...
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TECH THURSDAY Two big tech issues today … unless you also include my new foray onto Facebook, which is a chapter in itself for another day … and the Jeopardy online contestant quiz I took last night,...
View ArticleTaking Stock of Satellite
So these days so much focuses on finances and the stock market, that it’s not surprising our most recent update on Sirius-XM satellite radio focuses on the market’s response to last week’s deal with...
View ArticleA Singular Future?
TECH THURSDAY Today, a few thoughts about a concept that’s new to most of us … the singularity. Now most of us think of the singularity as the very center of a black hole … a no-man’s land where the...
View Article‘Sirius’ about the iPhone
TECH THURSDAY So many updates this week … not sure where they will lead … but here they are … first Sirius XM has announced it will release a new, FREE app for iPhone that will allow subscribers to...
View ArticleMailable … or Not
FIGURATIVELY SPEAKING There’s no doubt about it … if we followed rules issued by the U.S. Postal Service 100 years ago today, many of us would never open another letter. Maybe not even a bill … The...
View ArticleUnfashionable Times
A VAGUE REFLECTION ON THE ECONOMIC DOWNTURN Today, FD turns again to the economy. As usual, expect indispensable insight and potentially paradigm shifting information. First of all, let’s look at our...
View ArticleSxSW=Music!
The Avett Brothers. Photo by Crackerfarm SOUTH BY SOUTHWEST Today marks the opening of the Austin music festival South by Southwest. Each year this festival churns up a bit of excitement, placing new...
View ArticleA Tweet about Facebook
TECH THURSDAY Today, big — very big — news in the ‘Net — it’s a showdown of sorts between so many camps it’s hard to tease apart the battles. Yet it seems somehow the future of the entire human race...
View ArticleSF: Literature, Beyond
Today, just a few words about an often neglected fiction form. Science fiction. Most of the time this form is relegated to the back of bookstores, the bargain bins, or dusty boxes where these humble...
View ArticleDisappearing Writer
One aspect of writing that’s difficult to describe, is that we disappear when we write. That’s one of the toughest requirements, or should I say fallout, from writing. To do so requires a person to...
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