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Edward Ashton's "After the Fall" explores this alien-human relationship. Good summer read!

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Absolutely! This was a very educational experience.

Nearly twenty years ago I had a little server farm of old PCs. Two or three Pentium-133s, one dual Pentium Pro 200 machine, and my pride and joy, a Pentium 3 running at 600 MHz. I …

This is Moid Moidelhoff's fascinating two hour interview with science fiction author and marine biologist Peter Watts, covering consciousness, intelligence, SF books and authors th…

One of my cats loved snoozing on my big 19" CRT as well. When I replaced the CRT with my first LCD monitor, he tried to hop onto the non-existent top of the screen. In a mad scramb…

I bought the PDF last year for $7 (a very steep discount) during Apress/Springer's Black Friday sale. If you don't need the book right now or are on a budget, it may be worth waiti…

Here's a list of all the bumblebee species that are or have been present in Vermont: https://val.vtecostudies.org/projects/bumble-bee-atlas/speci...

They figured it out on the DC to Orlando route: https://www.amtrak.com/auto-train

Right, the TIFF creators were obviously inspired by the Hitchhikers Guide.

Also off-topic, TIFF files use 42 as a magic number in bytes 2 and 3 of the file header: "The number 42 was chosen for its deep philosophical significance."

I believe AT&T was trying to build a "videotex" system based on the NAPLPS protocol which was developed by Telidon in Canada. BYTE Magazine's July 1983 issue was dedicated to video…

I installed Debian Jessie on my 320CDT just a week or two ago. That's the last version of Debian that supports the Pentium MMX CPU. The battery doesn't hold a charge anymore and th…

The ACLU has been affected as well. From the email they sent out yesterday: In all candor, we are frustrated with the lack of information we've received from Blackbaud about this i…

I've been getting what sounds like the same emails. They used an email address and password that I used only on monster.com back in the early 2000s.

The NYT now has an option to cancel using a chat window -- and I'm pretty sure the operator that you're chatting with is a bot.