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  Re: Snow on Memorial Day         


Author: Bill Penrose
Date: May 21, 2008 23:59

On May 21, 2:57 pm, Skipper wrote:
> It's warming! It's warming!
>
> http://tinyurl.com/64znmf

In the last month, I read an article in 'New Scientist' berating
scientists for overstating the dangers of climate change.
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-change/mg19826543.700-poor...
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19826512.600-making-the-right-choices-in-climate...

And then, a series of four articles in Skeptic magazine, approaching
the subject from different viewpoints. I came away from these with the
notion that the experts know a whole lot less about climate change
than the headlines make out. In almost every case, the margins of
error include zero effect and even cooling. The evidence is still
stoutly on the side of warming, but it's far from a consensus as to
how much, how fast, and whether.
http://www.skeptic.com/the_magazine/index.html

(Nothing in this vindicates neocons, who ridicule climate change as
part of their worship of power and large corporations, and basically
know fuckall about the subject.)
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  Re: Was he insulting my work?         


Author: Bill Penrose
Date: May 21, 2008 23:24

On May 21, 2:56 pm, Wildepad wrote:
> It was, overall, as nice as a rejection can be, but he stated that my
> writing is "commercial."
> Is that insulting?

No. You sent it to the wrong kind of agent. For those who dream of
royalty checks, 'commercial' is a good thing.

DB
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  What is the Subject of this post?         


Author: The Starmaker
Date: May 21, 2008 22:38

What is the Subject of this post?
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  Re: Was he insulting my work?         


Author: Well Hung,
Date: May 21, 2008 17:59

On May 21, 5:56 pm, Wildepad wrote:
> I finally opened the letter from the agent I had queried.
>
> As soon as I got the flap up, I knew what it was because there was a
> single page.
>
> It was, overall, as nice as a rejection can be, but he stated that my
> writing is "commercial."
>
> Is that insulting?
>
> While I have no desire to enter the 'literary' genre, I associate
> 'commercial' with hack tv writers, people who produce insipid things
> for a generic audience.
>
> I don't see how he could mean it as 'salable' for two reasons:
>
> 1) the first chapter is a shortened version of a short story that
> appeared in a national magazine, so the fact that my writing can be
> sold is a foregone conclusion. ...
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  /URL/ YouTomb         


Author: Towse
Date: May 21, 2008 17:34

<http://youtomb.mit.edu/>

"YouTomb is a research project by MIT Free Culture that tracks videos
taken down from YouTube for alleged copyright violation."

[via John Murrell @ Good Morning Silicon Valley
<http://blogs.siliconvalley.com/gmsv/>]
--
Sal

Ye olde swarm of links: thousands of links for writers, researchers and
the terminally curious <http://writers.internet-resources.com>
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  Hitler and other hot topics         


Author: Well Hung,
Date: May 21, 2008 17:22

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=26075

"WWll could have been avoided if only I could have talked to
Hitler."
--Senator Edgar Borah.

What a great quote.

--Well Hung, (note comma)
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  Need some advice/help         


Author: Princess Punk
Date: May 21, 2008 17:13

i am looking for a begining for this essay/story im doing

it is based on roobin hood/M*A*S*H

and i was wondering how i should start it

btw
if u mention sock puppets ill go nuts
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  Re: Snow on Memorial Day         


Author: PJ
Date: May 21, 2008 16:19

Skipper wrote:
> It's warming! It's warming!
>
> http://tinyurl.com/64znmf

Do you even know how idiotic you sound when you post shit like this?
Sporadic spurts of weird weather occur all the time but that doesn't
change the fact that the global climate is steadily warming, AND humans
have exacerbated that, AND it's having deleterious effects on the
planet. Even former global warming skeptics, scientists with brains five
times the size of yours, admit that now. Try reading something besides
"Entertainment Weekly" for a change and make an effort to look beyond
what you see in your belly button, you clueless moron.

~ ~ ~
PJ
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  Snow on Memorial Day         


Author: Skipper
Date: May 21, 2008 15:57

It's warming! It's warming!

http://tinyurl.com/64znmf
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  ideas - gatgets de arte, diseño, arquitectura y tecnología         


Author: marc3art
Date: May 21, 2008 14:58

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