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A Quick Guide to NYC

 By xaosseed

August 2nd

Here’s a quick list of the things I did, places I went, things to recommend and so on that I wrote for a friend who’s going there and I thought - gee, people might find this useful so here:

Come Gather Ye, Kinfolk

 By xaosseed

May 18th

For the question’s been raised - “Does the ‘real’ Ireland still exist?” in a rather long article that makes me suspect Bord Failte has a man on the inside at the NY Times…

This Is Not Steampunk

 By xaosseed

May 9th

Steampunk has gone fucking mainstream - I’m not quite sure why this makes me so hacked off but it does.

Social Darwinism for teens

 By dixie

April 3rd

Today I learned about the Sprint Family Locator feature. It allows parents to track their kids (or, more generally, an “account holder” to track the other phones on the account) using GPS included in most snazzy phones sold these days. The trackee gets notified either every time the tracker requests its location, or “periodically.” There [...]

Death and…

 By dixie

March 24th

I did my taxes last week. In stark contrast to last year, when I did my taxes at the last minute because the Wanderer’s insane boss didn’t get the paperwork to us until the week before the deadline (yes, we know it’s illegal, no, there’s not a damn thing we can do about it in [...]

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