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The company’s name is Steorn — website here: www.steorn.net. From their site,

Steorn is a word translating as ‘to guide, direct and manage’.

In maybe as little as a few months time, they will become

not-very-widely known as hoaxers;
not-very-widely known as unfortunate engineers (and equally-unfortunate or just astonishingly poor selectors of peers to review their shizzle);
or [...]

April 2006 message from Dan Simmons.
This was brought to my attention by Neal just recently; had I found out about it any sooner, I certainly would have posted on it sooner. I don’t want to give anything away — but since I need to give you enough to at least inspire you to actually [...]

Keeping up the MSM-bashing: the pre-election message from the MSM on the economy was, in a nutshell, gloom-and-doom — at least as much as it was possible to convey such a fabricated message. The economy is booming, period. Unemployment is around 4.4%, re-approaching the lowest point that it’s ever been (just under [...]

Orson Scott Card has made a post about tomorrow’s election and his thoughts on what is at stake. It is longish, my rushed readers, but well worth your time.
A sample:
There is only one issue in this election that will matter five or ten years from now, and that’s the War on Terror.
And [...]

I actually agree with Venezuelan “President” Hugo Chavez — well, at least one of his statements. While speaking yesterday to the United Nations, the ever-diplomatic Mr. Chavez
…also said the U.N. “doesn’t work” in its current system…
Of course, just examining that quote misses the meat of what ol’ Hugo ranted on about, and most [...]