Ghost in the Machine
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By Dennis Rich, The Sedalia Democrat, Sedalia, Mo.  Dec. 18--Ghost in the machine   By Dennis Rich   The Sedalia democrat   Brent Northcutt is something of a ghost in the machine.
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Great writeup from Tim Bray WRT Dynamic Java  ...  Here's the funny part.  Whats up with all the damn coffee in these pictures?  One can only come to the conclusion that caffeine makes you smart as hell!  caption: Coffee  caption: Coffee and Java  caption: Java and Coffee
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Tycho:  Imagine that there exists a great machine.
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A new computer virus is catching people out by coming back from the dead.
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&quot;No cigarettes please,&quot; comes the request, &quot;as the smoke can interfere with our spirit photography.&quot; It is nearly midnight, a few days before Hallowe'en, in the self-styled most haunted city in Britain, and the ghost hunters are getting to work.
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Ghosts seem to be stalking the theatres last Friday. Both the releases Rakht and Hum Kaun Hain were supernatural thrillers with ghosts walking in and out of the frames unselfconsciously.
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Revisiting the lessons of Garry Kasparov's historic loss to an IBM computer.
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Gabe: We did a really awesome project (can I say it"s awesome, is that okay?) for Wired magazine. You can either go pick up the most recent issue and read it there or check it out on their site. They asked us to do a piece for them handicapping all three of the next generation systems. We tried to be as fair as we could and hopefully you"ll get a kick out of it.
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Still listening to this classic Dead song.  And writing about it on Twitter... It's an MP3 that I ripped from the Mars Hotel album. Which I bought on CD many years ago. I've listened to this track about 1000 times. When I play it it puts a smile on my face. Because Cucamonga is a place with no pride, imho.  It's a joke, kind of like Truckin makes fun of New Orleans, a town that done the Dead wrong, once, a long time ago. Now if it were on vinyl I would have wore it out a long time ago. I'm sure there was a copy of the song on the disk Apple stole from me. There you have it RIAA. You can go after Apple. I'll support you because they stole from both of us. They have no right to listen to PofC. I imagine Steve Jobs and Phil Shindler sitting around smokin a doobie listening to Phil Lesh sing, thinking "Dave has good taste in music." BTW, Cucamonga is a suburb in southern CA. Near Ontario. Probably very non-descript. Might have been interesting 70 years ago. And that's your bedtime story for Saturday, boys and girls. Have a nice day, don't hit your brother (or sister) and be nice to the sitter!
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Also: Stephen Hawking looking for assistant. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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The Vineyard Theaterâs rare revival of J. M. Barrieâs elegantly plotted ghost story is an occasion of some interest.
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it just happened. He needed some way to send Marty McFly &quot;Back to the Future&quot; so he had George Lucas&#39; Industrial Light &amp; Magic
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A new camera tracks hot lead -- just like in the slow-motion "bullet time" scenes in The Matrix. The technology could lead to "active armor" that stops bullets midair. By David Hambling.
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Through the murk and gloom of âThe Abandoned,â a mystery emerges: Why didnât this go straight to DVD?
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By Pete Bach, The Post-Crescent, Appleton, Wis.  Dec. 14--APPLETON -- Next to an erratic PC, nothing's worse than a balky  copy machine at work.
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Tycho:  I'm super depressed.  I thought I had invented a new word - mirthquake - and then I was going to say that you should prepare yourselves for the aforementioned, as today's comic strip was rated this or that number on the rictus scale.  I mean seriously, I've been excited all weekend.  A simple Google search put me in my place - the word is practically ubiquitous.  Expect it soon on Urban Dictionary, that mausoleum of once vibrant language.
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