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It seems to be bobbing between computers quite a bit, and so here it is encased in its flash drive. Rally!

Wouldn’t it suck if I lost the flash drive? Ha ha ha oh.

Boing Boing has a post on How alternate reality games work with links to Cory Doctorow’s notes from a talk he saw on the subject.

What is an ARG?

You’re watching a TV show, the character picks up the phone and makes a call and your phone rings

Great stuff. I think of it as hacking reality, and I’d like to make some kind of play with this for COUCH when it comes out - to leave real-world evidence of the passing of fictional characters.

The scavenger/treasure hunt/caper Operation Peachblow, run by our own Black Magic Insurance Agency has put these on since 2000.

But this blending of fiction and reality seems particularly interesting on a day in which yet another author has ‘Freyed’ her work:

In Love and Consequences memoir a fake

The 1000 words reading series at The Maiden in the Mist was a full house and awesome and the writers I read with - Daniel Thomas, Jill Stukenberg and Mel Favarra were just great.

Mel has updated the site with the work, including my strange little sci-fi piece.

Firefox 3 is my new favorite browser.

Many kudos to the Mozilla people for making FF 3 exponentially better on the mac than FF 2. Snappy, pretty, nifty new features, and an app that looks like it belongs on the mac, rejoice. There’s a small bit of bug fixing and cleanup left to be done, but it’s already outshining my other browsers. And since I regularly have 2-4 browsers open at once - Camino, Safari, Firefox, IE 7 & IE 6  in Parallels - it’s great fun to find I’m spending most of my time in the new Firefox.

Get Firefox 3 (beta 3) here

Heidi Anderson was my best friend in college for a year or two. We met in the year-long Foundations of Natural Science class at The Evergreen State College and were lab partners in the chemistry component. Her father, it turns out, was a nobel nominated geneticist, so I think you can guess who carried the weight in the lab. She was one of the best-read people I have ever met, was an extremely competent backpacker, had a great sense of humor and will be missed.

After we graduated from college we drifted apart. When I heard that she was missing (link), I couldn’t stop thinking about her and briefly posted here about the situation and was on the verge of doing a mass emailing when, alas, the worst fears came to pass (link).

I have been struck by the tone of the news articles on her - perhaps it’s just that I’ve never had something like this happen so close to my own life, but I feel like posting a defense of her person here. It’s amazing how a general line like ’she has a medical condition and needs medication’ can transform in the mind of the reader to something unstable or worse - Heidi had a chronic stomach ailment, no more.

Whatever the cause - accident or suicide, this is a sad end to a lovely person.

Rest in peace, Heidi.

Job Approval Rating for Prez Bush

I’m just not sure how you really go about  continuing, in any way shape or form, when 77% of the people you work for think UR DOIN IT WRONG.