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One benefit of change is my fond hope that politics will be less
important in coming years, letting folks like you and me relax enough
to go back to stimulating the world with great projects and keen
ideas!
Anyway, thought I'd let you know that my series of unusual
proposals -- ways that
Seems I'll be on the telly again. The two-hour special First
Apocalypse aka What Really Killed the Dinosaurs is scheduled to
air on Wednesday, January 07 @ 09:00 PM on History (please check your
local listing)
They put an hour of my blather in the can, but you never know how
much they'll
Hi Brinellers.
I recall that some of you were excellent manuscript pre-readers in
times past (Julia?) Are any of you interested in doing it again?
This time it would be for the first novel of my wife, Cheryl, who's
done a 100kword SF novel that's somewhat YA and feminine in tone,
about a
I can't believe it almost slipped by without notice.
Right now... give or take a couple of weeks... we are passing through
the two hundredth anniversary of one of the greatest events in the
history of art. Perhaps of all humanity. The Winter Concert of
1808, when Ludwig Von Beethoven
At the invitation of the editors at Salon Magazine, I've started an
occasional political blog at:
http://open.salon.com/content.php?cid=17245
I don't know how well it will work out. Certainly better than DailyKos!
If you'd like to drop by and leave a comment, cool.
He's hoping for good news
Reminder to join my Facebook fan page!
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Hoping U R all thriving!
With cordial regards,
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In case you missed The Architechs* the first time around, set your
Tivo to May 2 5am on the History Channel.
Fun worthwhile. (I sure had fun making it.) And it may be the
last chance...
Thrive-on!
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*(Five geniuses are challenged: Design better safety/rescue systems
for
I appear on several episodes of the new History Channel show The
Universe starting with one on March 11.
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Just a heads-up -
Catch me on the History Channel's Life After People - January 21 at
9pm. A pretty cool show about how all our works may crumble, if we
humans ever... well... vanish.
I had a much bigger role in The Architechs. (see:
http://htyp.org/The_ArchiTECHS) A terrific show that
Any of you folks know Mark Hillard, a brineller who wrote a Startide
Rising script on spec?
My interest is related to: he Computer Graphics challenge to create
movie trailers for Greg Bear's book EON.
http://features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=3987
(I provide the story for
Yesterday, even as Stephen Colbert had the founder of Daily Kos on
his show and O'Reilly railed against the Kosa-Nazis - my own Kos
posting was a front-pager. Coincidence?
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/8/15/32147/4602
Longer than normal, it's not just a polemic, but a RESOURCE for
A quick appeal to any nitpickers out there who spotted errors in KILN PEOPLE.
If you have any types or errors noted anywhere, now is the time to
tell me. There's about to be a reprint.
Thanks!
With cordial regards,
David Brin
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Hi folks. Sorry to have been neglecting brinellers. Here's an
update about some of the nonfiction projects I have been up to.
Several announcements about some groundbreaking essays and articles
now available online...
*** The innovative online publishing venture Amazon Shorts
On October 19th, 2001, former Halliburton CEO and now current
sitting Vice President, Dick Cheney, christened a new term.
Describing the curtailment of civil rights taken for granted by
American citizens as the New Normalcy, Mr. Cheney was notifying
Americans that constant
For those who'd like to browse the 22,000 ideas submitted before
deadline to the SinceSlicedBread site, here is their snipped request
for lots of people to come, look, and vote.
I know some of you submitted ideas. Come and see if you recognize
anything that originated here.
Announcement:
The (apparent) success of my anthology of essays KING KONG IS BACK
has inspired the publishers to go for another -- one taking off from
my infamous denunciations of Star Wars.
bThe Politics of Star Wars - A discussion of the underlying
politics and of the Star Wars saga
Hi folks,
Eventually, we'll get back to a serialized tome. But firstĀ
1. Some folks in Australia and Asia have trouble directly accessing
davidbrin.com. Try instead typing http://www.davidbrin.NET for a
selection of alternate access options. (Gary and Rob were both
helpful setting up this
A few announcements.
1. A new program - bAMAZON SHORTS/b (www.amazon.com/shorts) -
will be offering a number of my new bessays, articles and short
stories/b for handy download, just like iPod music files. This
starts inow/i in the bnonfiction category,/b with my essay on
iThe Power of
Someone recently pointed to the bTechnovelgy Site/b - a very
cool attempt to cite technological predictions made in sci fi novels.
(http://www.technovelgy.com) This is nothing like the systematic
approach to registering predictions that I am urging but it certainly
is a step... though a
(Sharing a recent item at http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/...)
I have long bemoaned the trend for many liberals to simplistically
call themselves ianti-war/i instead of ianti
Stpidwar./i Why deliberately accept Karl Rove's wimpy label
when you can point to recent examples of America
An announcement for all you Aussies and Asians out there, who have
has trouble accessing my web site at http://www.davidbrin.com/ It
turns out that recent blog correspondent Rob Perkins has been able to
throw together a quick and convenient mirror site that automatically
copies my site and
I am having a problem with my web site and wonder if some of you
might have an easy answer.
People from Australia and Asia are reporting difficulty accessing my
web site http://www.davidbrin.com/ It's a very popular site, making
me the #12 David on the planet.
Alas. My ISP has a blanket
I thought I'd check in with you brinellers, having neglected you
pretty badly in favor of something I long avoided... a blog.
sigh. I finally gave in and set one up at
http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/ ... and right off the bat it won a
SciFi magazine hot site of the month award. It's been
Has anyone seen this?
I mean, they even call it claytronics! This is the fourth major
fictional idea of mine that has been at least partly reified by
researchers this year alone. And in not one case did anyone mention
where they got the idea. sniff.
Somebody oughta tell em...
The
Someone explain to the screeching fagela that I have a lot of
experience with obsessive fanboy stalkers. He is welcome at any time
to approach and test his theory that I am a sissy. I will give him
first shot and then hand him whatever of his body parts he cares to
name.
Like Jerry P,
Sorry to the rest of you for getting sucked in.Fanboy sniping
attacks are part of the territory and I generally snub the little
gnats. Got fooled this time by the important topic (saving the
world).
We all depend upon a civilization in which the ratio of citizens to
psychopaths
I have a couple of Glasgow memberships for sale - to the World Sci Fi
convention Discounted of course.
Contact me offline.
david brin
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Buried in the 700-plus page energy bill currently under debate in the
U.S. Senate is a provision that provides hundreds of millions of
dollars worth of federal loan guarantees for a power project
apparently to be built by four former Enron executives. One of
the former executives is Thomas
This from Russ Daggatt who lives in Washington State:
The decision was just rendered in the challenge by Washington State
Republicans to the outcome of the state's most recent gubernatorial
election. Judge Bridges (a Republican judge from one of the most
Republican counties in the state,
It's almost out of theaters and this is one you really have to see on
the wide screen. It's not Ridley Scott's best film, but it is by far
his most vivid - and that's saying a lot.
Entering the theater, I passed posters for Bewitched, Mr Mrs
Smith, Zorro, Fantastic Four, Willie Wonka,
Good seeing some of you at the excellent FiRe Conference.
I have an article in a new book of critical essays about George
Orwell. But the following is cribbed from a recent speech by Bill
Moyers. Frankly, I do not always find him on.
But this time he is
---
Without a trace of irony, the
This just came in from a reader. Some of you may have seen it
already. An absolutely brilliant faux scientific talk about the
process of resurrecting the lost subspecies of vampires. The
callous, smug amorality is exactly how science can and often DOES go
wrong.
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This story was sent to you by: Nick Arnett
Related to DB's stories of officers being purged...
Officers Plot Exit Strategy.
This is just one example of how obstinate conservatives can be.
Where, exactly, is the
Former brineller Stefan Jones sent this about seeing the new SITH flick:
--
My manager surprised everyone on the development team with free tickets
to _Revenge_. All of my testing was on automatic today, so why not?
Wonderful eye candy of course. But . . . God. The dialog and acting and
How many ways will this administration have to betray conservatism
before the nation's old-fashioned conservatives wake up and realize
that they have been had?
The obstinacy of symbolic allegiance means that the answer is probably never.
Reducing deficit spending?
Limiting the size and reach
1. A colleague pointed me to this intriguing website, which features
a look at media history from the vantage point of the year 2014.
http://www.robinsloan.com/epic/(Need I mention that every bit of
this was forecast in a little novel called EARTH?)
2. Fight the big lie of the periodic
The following article shows how our controlled media have limited
discussion of a major scandal... the smoking gun showing that Cheney
et al knew they were lying about WMD in Iraq.
Unfortunately, Krugman still buys into the notion that going into
Iraq to toss out Saddam was a mistake... when
Some of you have been dropping by my blog where a lively discussion
of The Enlightenment and its Enemies has been going on.
Here's a few items just sent to me by a (admittedly radical) friend.
1. an article that, while liberal, analyses this administration in
conservative terms. Alas, the
Elsewhere I have taken on Michael Crichton and others, who are
engaged in a full-thrust, antimodernist campaign against modern
science. This agenda includes Creationism but the latest aspect is a
desperate attempt to armwave away the massive scientific consensus in
the existence of some level
I have to share the following items from another correspondent. I
chime in with parentheses in one spot. But always, always ask this.
If all of this is the deliberate outcome of intentional policy,
which power on Earth benefits from every single administration
endeavor?
If you list
Once again, my polite suggestion and request. If you think there is
anything even *remotely* plausible in my comments about George
Lucas's Star Wars universe, please consider waiting two weeks and
then seeing his latest toy advertisement during a discount matinee.
Notice I am not asking for a
The following, psassed on by Joe Miller.
Finally I know why Hulk head hurt!
SERIOUS THINKING PROBLEM
It started out innocently enough. I began to think at parties now
and then -- to loosen up. Inevitably, though, one thought led to
another, and soon I was more than just a social thinker.
I began
Trent seems to have thought that the passages that I was quoting,
from that TV show, were a draft article BY me. Actually, I know
little about Qutb and was simply passing on these passages so people
could go to the link if they wanted more. But yes, Qutb was clearly
in part a creature made
Hi.
David Brin here.
Cheryl I will not be going to Glasgow for worldcon this August.
Anyone want to buy our memberships? Half current price.
Thrive all.
With cordial regards,
David Brin
www.davidbrin.com
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This from my blog
Still too swamped to continue the formal essay. But let me call to
your
Just posted this on my blog...
==
Here is a short piece on sanity that I recently sent to the
organizers of a conference that I'll be attending in June, concerning
future threats such as advanced WMD.
i100 years ago we were told by confident and educated men that
humanity was finally
Think Tank's Ideas Shifted As Malaysia Ties Grew
Business Interests Overlapped Policy
By Thomas B. Edsall Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, April 17,
2005; Page A01
For years, the Heritage Foundation sharply criticized the
autocratic rule of former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir
Here's the latest posting at www.davidbrin.blogspot.com/
--
Finally, no more Star Wars...
Well, wasn't that interesting about SETI? Not exactly my usual stuff.
I guess I'm clearing my decks of miscellaneous irritations. I will
get back to the serious episodic tome about Modernism and its
--- Russ Daggatt wrote: Given how extreme the Republican leadership
has become, and the fact that Republicans have a solid grip on the
presidency and both Houses of Congress, I think it is time that the
Democrats began to run as the anti-government party.
This would seem to be in the same
Stefan Jones offered the following
(From: http://www.realclimate.org/)
Doubts about the Advent of Spring
A consensus view amongst climate scientists holds that the Northern
Hemisphere will be warming this month, as spring is coming. This is
thought to be due to the Earth's orbit around the sun
I've been looking for ways that Democrats could reach out
rhetorically, using surprise and jiu jitsu. One that occurred to me
seemed tasty... have a fresh look at Newt Gingrich's Contract With
America. Why have the democrats done nothing about re-examining the
Contract, 10 years later?
In
Any of you interested in a vivid and lively skim across the surface
of singularity thinking (the notion that progress is accelerating
toward a historical break point in the next few decades) should drop
by: http://www.singularitywatch.com/articles/jsinterview2003.html
Also, see my ongoing
Youch!
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/22/opinion/22brooks.html?hp=pagewanted=printposition=
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DON'T MISS THE MOST IMPORTANT BIG IDEA EVENT OF THE YEAR !
How will you -- and the rest of humanity get through the next decade?
With accelerating global warming, cloning of humans, bigger terrorism
events, genetic modification of all life forms, extraordinary
computer (and Internet) advances,
Great stuff at: http://www.newscientist.com/channel/space/mg18524911.600
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http://www.thepaincomics.com/weekly041229.htm
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I don't know if this is for real. Oughta be.
An upcoming* Scientific America editorial:
There's no easy way to admit this. For years, helpful letter
writers told us to stick to science. They pointed out that science
and politics don't mix. They said we should be more balanced in our
It looks like I will be in DC in late April keynoting a conference
about future threats for the Arlington Institute.
I'll also be giving a speech at the Progressive Policy Institute, an
arm of the DLC. Discussing some of the issues and suggestions at :
Today. In person. One of the most conservative men I know and former
special forces. One of dozens who have told me - when I asked about
the purge - David, it is worse than you can imagine.
This is not just the fault of the Straussian fanatics, or even their
masters. After all, it was our
If this had happened under Clinton, heads would have rolled
Why Isn't Bob Novak Going to Jail?
By Tony Norman
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Friday 18 February 2005
Will someone please explain in simple, easy-to-understand language,
why we never see right-wing pundit Bob
Russ Daggatt is an owner of the Seattle Supersonics who gets a little
frenetic in his politics. But sometimes his screeds are just too
entertaining to pass up. I will share this one with you
--
1/ Anyone who doubted whether the crazed, ideological
neoconservatives would continue to
The building momentum toward an attack upon Iran is terrifying. It
is the diametric opposite approach to what I have been urging for
three years.
It is based on a self-hypnosis incantation-matra that
neoconservatives are repeating over and over again.
The mullahs in Iran are teetering. If
In a press conference with President Bush and the President of
Romania this morning (March 9) President Bush mentioned the
Transparant Society while he was discussing government.
I'd love to know if anywhere along the speechwriting chain someone
thought of my book or me... though it's ironic,
Have you all known about my ongoing episodic essay about modernism,
at http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/ ?
Oh, here are a couple of items.
1/ It was only last September that the official count of US military
deaths in Iraq exceeded 1000. That was roughly 18 months after Bush
launched this
Have a look at:
http://www.stiftungleostrauss.com/t00324fpt036/index.html
Hilarious and very well done.
Including images from Nuremberg rallies, illuminating the ultimate
irony... that an intellectual refugee from ravaged Europe would come
over here in the 40s and start preaching FOR the same
FYI
Natural Selection Acts on the Quantum World - (Nature - December 23, 2004)
http://www.nature.com/news/2004/041220/pf/041220-12_pf.html
A team of physicists has proved a theorem that explains how our
objective, common reality emerges from the subtle and sensitive
quantum world. If, as quantum
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/20/magazine/20WWLN.html
February 20, 2005
THE WAY WE LIVE NOW
Unintelligent Design
By JIM HOLT
Recently a school district in rural Pennsylvania officially
recognized a supposed alternative to Darwinism. In a one-minute
statement read by an administrator,
Where is Barry Goldwater when we need him?
I don't have any respect for the Religious Right. There is no place
in this country for practicing religion in politics. That goes for
Falwell, Robertson and all the rest of these political preachers.
They are a detriment to the country. Barry
1/ Why do CIA Director, Porter Goss, and the head of the Defense
Intelligence Agency, Lowell Jacoby, HATE AMERICA?
Islamic extremists are exploiting the Iraqi conflict to recruit new
anti-U.S. jihadists, CIA Director Porter J. Goss told the Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence.
These
For those who still hypnotoze themselves that Surplus Bill Clinton
was in some way more of an out of control spendthrift than the
present gang of looters
Bush revealed his fiscal 2006 budget today and, not surprisingly, it
is a fraud. The NY Times has an excellent analysis:
In the following report, I would slightly differ on priorities. For
example, I believe that it will come as a rude surprise to Rumsfeld
co how dedicated a majority of our Officer Corps is to constitutional
government.
On the other hand, the ability of Rumsfeld, Cheney and Rice to throw
us
Trent has suggested that Brin-L might be a good community to test my
Holocene Chat invention. (see: http://www.holocenechat.com/) I
believe you folks do have a weekly realtime session already?
We are currently doing a few selected demos of the system. Can't
accommodate very many. But if
The below just posted at:
http://www.davidbrin.blogspot.com/
Ukraine levels of electoral fraud?
I am still hoping that much of the talk about election fraud in this
country is exaggerated. Certainly our lifetimes have never witnessed
so many dubious or outrageous twists, warpings and
http://uscountvotes.org/
A group of independent mathematicians, statisticians and computer
professionals has formed a new, volunteer scientific research project
to objectively investigate the accuracy of elections in America.
Voting accuracy is a controversial topic: The Help America Vote Act
Please pass on prayers and good wishes from Cheryl and me. Julia is
the best. If there's anything we can do.
db
Everyone,
Julia Thompson (who has been a manager of the Brin list for longer
than anyone in history, as far as I know) just called me to say that
she'll be off e-mail indefinitely.
And it goes on. Accelerating, every day.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002112639_diss08.html
Oh... I just realized something chilling.
The UNDERLYING reasons for putting social security into the stock
market has not yet come out. And it's the nastiest thing yet.
The
Agh, somebody make me stop!
Here's another philosophical/social essay, trying to put in
perspective what I see going on all around. I have GOT to flee from
all this into fiction
Comments welcome.
db
Is the Radical Notion of Modernism Relevant for the Twenty-First Century?
by David
To the Brin-L list.
Reminder re: my 3rd final political essay at:
http://www.davidbrin.com/realculturewar1.html
It's getting a lot of traffic. Now if only I could get into the
heads of the old-style moderate conservatives like George Will, who
are looking for a new approach..
Next
First funny stuff:
http://www.scalzi.com/whatever/003030.html
Then this from the publisher one of the nation's leading economic
trends newsletters. (Hardly a socialist!):
After the Nov.2 election, I suggested to my sister that, since there
were no paper trails left by electronic voting
First off, this is to announce my third and final (I hope) big
political salvo. That is, till the scandals start hitting that make
Watergate look like a playground spat.
FOlks are welcome to drop in at: http://www.davidbrin.com/realculturewar1.html
comments suggestions welcome. (Still some
I've finished a first draft of my big post-election essay -- another
layered hypercommentary, similar to the one at:
http://www.davidbrin.com/neoromantics.html
As promised, I've tried to look at the results from some unusual new
angles. In addition, I've cobbled together a few out-of-the-box
I'm still working on my Big Suggestion article. But first, off to
Denmark in a few days to give speeches about transparency... ironic
in light of the great darkness sweeping across America.
We can expect to be hammered daily by news of winners raking spoils,
consolidating power and
I've never been prouder to be a libertarian, see below:
Ohio WILL be recounted thank to the Libertarian and Green
Presidential candidates money donated from all over the country to
pay for it . I like the idea of citizen initiated
electoral review.
For the Libertarians see:
While working on my new essay, I find I must cite the confederacy map
comparison.
The old one:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v332/rundgren/FREESTATES.jpg
doesn't do the comparison. Anybody have the URL?
Quibbles about Nebraska and Idaho in 1859 ignore that the map is
perfectly accurate
No this is not my serious set of suggestions. Still working on that.
Some of you have seen this before. This is the email that I
promised, containing a compilation of the best - or worst - of the
angry rants currently seething across the web.
I'll start with the most entertaining, and end
Stefan J sent this:
November 10, 2004
A Political Wire reader tries to pull the country together after a
hard-fought election:
A Unity Poem (From:
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2004/11/10/a_unity_poem.html)
The election is over, the results are now known.
The will of the people has clearly
I was outraged to learn that Diebold won't allow any outsiders to
look at the code programmed into their machines, claiming that it's
proprietary. I think that at the very least this should be
challenged: the Diebold code should have independent oversight, just
as a hand count has independent
The following needs sharing around. It is stronger than I
feel...though it certainly needed to be said by somebody.
I am going to write up an essay suggesting much gentler ways to win a
culture peace. But it's important to see below the alternative
spirit. Having turned the other cheek for
The incredible historical lunacy of anyone forgetting the savagery of
pro-slavery forces in Kansas and Nebraska territories simply is
beyond belief in any educated person. But deliberate delusions are
par for the course.
I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and
I'm still wading out from under piles of distractions (ten speeches
in two months!) hoping to get around to that longer post-election
essay in which I'll offer a few suggestions how to deal with this new
world we find ourselves in.
Meanwhile, there's this.
My initial reactions to the
See the following correlation between average IQ in red vs blue
states. http://chrisevans3d.com/files/iq.htm
Note while looking at this chart that Iowa, Colorado, Nevada, Ohio,
Oregon and Florida were all close. Bearing that in mind, the
correlation is simply stunning. It starkly explains
Modern Marvels:Surveillance Tech is airing on History
Channel this Wednesday night,November 10th. Please
check your local TV listings for air times.
I expect I'll be on it.
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Oh, ... doesn't Chief Justice William Jefferson Clinton have a
GREAT ring to it?
Har! That'd stick in their craws! It would call for a
major blowout, tonight, though. Many new senators.
Let's go for it kinda like Sherman having one last bit of fun
before Linvoln offers malice toward
This from Stefan Jones. It's circulating on Slashdot:
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((Translation may be suspect.))
Infidels, your imperalist hubris is so decedent, you have a baseball
tournament full of Americans and Canadians, yet you dare to call it the
World Series.
Your Simpsons show is not as funny as it used to be
A Major Supply-Sider Defects...
Former chief editorial writer for the Wall Street Journal and one of
the architects of Ronald Reagan's supply side economics - Jude
Wanniski - has written a passionate letter explaining his
enthusiastic support for Senator Kerry... while at the same time
Once-and-future brineller Stefan Jones has forwarded the following
about dirty tricks and urges everyone to keep their eyes open.
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/breaking_news/10050609.htm
Stefan also says: I hope the folks who think Bush was appointed by
God don't take a Kerry win
The Economist is, in my view, the best news publication in the
English language, though editorially conservative. They endorsed
Dubya in 2000 and supported the Iraq war.
But they are now endorsing Kerry saying, Bush is, too incompetent to
deserve a second term.
I am starting to get optimistic.
Few sitting presidents ever get higher percentages on election day
than the final polls. Challengers often pick up a few points.
And these polls are based on obsolete formulae for likely voters.
- More GOP defections (e.g. perceptive American patriots)
Lapsed brineller Stefan Jones passes this along.
He says . . . this pretty much says it all:
http://anon.salon.speedera.net/anon.salon/media/2004/10/BushUncensored.mov
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