Monthly Archives: August 2012

u-shape-it

Hm, Shapeways has an API. If I were a skilled Web programmer I’d make a page where you can choose the size and frequencies of a Klein bagel model …

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seams in the infrastructure

I had a visitor from beyond an arbitrary polygonal arc. When she got here, she asked, “Did you get my note?” “What, today? No.” “… Oops, I sent it from my Canadian phone. So when I get back to Canada, … Continue reading

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PLG

Got an idea for a transhuman story element. Assume that the technology exists to let you acquire fluency in a language of your choice as easily as you install a font on your computer. (Such technology figures in When Gravity … Continue reading

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