TO THE STARS: A new foundation aimed at promoting faster-than-light travel. Give generously, especially if you're really rich.

"The strategy of the Foundation will be to cover the whole span of ambitions, but with cycles of short-term, affordable investigations that target the most important questions. This span includes the seemingly simple concept of solar sails to the seemingly impossible goal of faster-than-light travel, to hedge the bets."

* Successful demonstration defined as Pixy Misa using said drive to travel backwards** in time and earn at least two trillion dollars from compound interest and market investments.
** And yes, it has to be backwards in time. I can communicate forwards in time just fine. See here and here.

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P.S. Don't mean to nag, but if you get a chance could you please return the lawnmower? Ta. Oz.

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Apparently not.

52 then? Um...

Would you believe 114 and counting?

Don't know how good it is beyond the first few episodes, though. (I did quite enjoy the first few episodes, but then the fansubs stopped. They've started up again - from a different group, and at a rapid pace - but I haven't gotten back to it yet.)

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If you're reading this little blog, then most likely you have read essayists like Steven Den Beste and Bill Whittle, or at least the news and opinion sites like Instapundit and Little Green Footballs, or if not that, then some history, so if (like me) you had followed the links and read that story (it was framed as fiction, sort of; truth framed as fiction framed as truth) you would have nodded your head and skipped forward a little and said, Yes, yes. I know that, but it's always good to see another one who sees the dangers.

What Simmons didn't see, it appears, is the wilful blindness and vitriol of those who do not wish to see the world as it is. His response to the (predictable) outpouring of bile is a much longer and more tightly reasoned* essay. Read it. Admittedly, the people who do read it will largely not be those who most need to read it, but read it anyway.

* Not that the original story wasn't tightly reasoned, it's just that the reasoning was opaque to many readers. This essay brings the facts and reasoning to the front.

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The rest of munu is largely stable, although there are a lot minor issues left after all the messing about I had to do during the attack.

I still have two broken computers, but that means I still have two working computers. (Well, two working computers that I am actively using.) I'll get the broken ones fixed sooner or later.

And I had nothing that I had to do today. Lots of things to do, but nothing that had to be done today. For the first time in a month, I didn't have some critical emergency to deal with.

I slept in. I read Alastair Reynolds' Pushing Ice (not unflawed, but eminently readable). I have a million things to do tomorrow, but that's tomorrow.

And now I'm going to go and beat up some girls. (The first reviewer on that page has it pretty much right. Good game, lots of fun, but could have been a lot better.)

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