Miscellaneous Good News: A Sequel Posted by Lindsay Perigo on 8/14/2004, 10:27pm
I couldn't be more pleased to announce the first appointments to SOLO's staff as per my 'Miscellaneous Good News' post here just eleven days ago. Barbara Branden & James Kilbourne will become SOLO's "Writers-In-Residence." This means they'll be writing & posting articles regularly & exclusively for SOLO, maintaining a ...(Read more...)
Pope Joe in New Zealand Posted by Lindsay Perigo on 8/12/2004, 10:23pm
NZ SOLOists - just a reminder that Joe Rowlands' sojourn in NZ is drawing to a close. There will be a party-party for him Chez Linz, Saturday Aug 14 from 2 pm on. All welcome. Contact me, editor@freeradical.co.nz, if in need of directions. Linz(Read more...)
Hotel Tycoon Robert Bigelow is devoting $500 million of his fortune to the creation of commercial hotels in space! His effort is already five years in progress, and the first launches by Bigelow Aerospace could occur as early as the fall of next year.
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Banjo Paterson was Australia's outback bard - his Man from Snowy River ballad is an Aussie Leaves of Grass; his Waltzing Matilda their unofficial national anthem. The National Geographic cover story this month celebrates The Banjo. His poetry was as virile and muscular as Walt Whitman's; it spoke of breaking op...(Read more...)
The $10 million competition to send a private manned rocket into space started looking more like a race Thursday, when a Canadian team announced plans to launch its rocket three days after an American group intends to begin qualifying for the Ansari X prize. The da Vinci Project's Wild Fire has a traditional rocket co...(Read more...)
Miscellaneous Good News! Posted by Lindsay Perigo on 8/04/2004, 2:58am
Boys & Girls I'm happy to be able to announce that, because of a surfeit of excellent material, I shall for the next little while be posting two articles a day, twelve hours apart. Aside from anything else, I'm conscious that if I *don't* do this, I shall frustrate some extremely deserving authors who have every...(Read more...)
SOLO and Stolyarov Posted by Lindsay Perigo on 8/02/2004, 2:06am
I have received an e-mail from Mr Stolyarov, offering to list SOLO’s merchandise on a new store he is setting up on his own site. All he asks in return is that he be permitted to announce the new store as a news item on SOLOHQ. Ordinarily I would agree unhesitatingly to such a proposal from a regular, not to mention pr...(Read more...)
