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Monthly Archives: September 2003

bombast

by Rob Friesel

here it is. new look and feel for found_drama.v.3.0. and this self-reflective inaugural post. why the change? felt the need to flex my f00 since I’m not getting enough flexion of it at work. (yet) besides, it was time I gave in to my worst urges and fessed up to that weird fetish I have […]

p2p me

by Rob Friesel

BigChampagne. Here comes the self-conscious, defensive, and more-than-slightly dodgy press releases from the RIAA-member states … er … labels. Who the hell else is really going to be flexing dollars on this service? (Thanks Wired!) Always interesting how these things come together: “The record industry’s lawsuits against file-sharing companies hang on their assertion that the […]

want ads

by Rob Friesel

anyone know of a publishing company interested in publishing a 20-something writer w/ sci-fi leanings and penchant for emobdying funked gender politics? a writer who has no prev’ly published short storied b/c frankly he just can’t contain himself to under 20 pages? i realized last night as i (didn’t) drift off to be that my […]

assortment.

by Rob Friesel

Via Gibson’s blog: Hum this… My sentiments exactly. My dad writes: “As for distributefolding.org, I had not heard of them but am familiar with the Samuel Lundenfeld Institute in Toronto. An excellent place. Protein folding algorithms take huge amounts of computing power and so I suppose this is a cost effective way for them to […]

science!

by Rob Friesel

DistributedFolding.org … it’s a lot like SETI@Home but here on Earth. And much more likely to yield immediate, fruitful results. The long & short? Proteins. Proteins get all bunched up and folded when made and somehow (no one’s really sure how yet) these proteins get turned into cells and enzymes and all those other complex […]