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-R

Sturgeon's Law #005
27 August, 2005
now fortified with tasty PodProducer

Opening and Closing Music - Merrigan's Reel by Jim Fidler

Global Frequency
by Warren Ellis for DC Comics
Warren Ellis fan -- but not uncritical one
Global Frequency and Transmetropolitan probably his most optimistic works if you look at their core messages
People can affect their environments if they care enough to do it
Global Frequency: 1001 people of varying talents, skills and locations connected by phone
ran during 2002, 12 independent stories
A great response to super-heroes
TV Pilot and the bittorrent flap

Promo: 5 Questions podcast

Music: "Sail Away" by NOW is NOW
band out of Maine

Celestia
Celestia Motherlode
my youth and the Kirkpatrick Planetarium in OKC
relatively simple idea that needed sufficient computrons
the key cool part: not just explore space virtually, explore space AND time
URIs can express space, time, orientation, and various settings such as rate of time passage
URIs used for lessons in Word docs by Virginia teacher

Promo: Dial-a-Dork