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Pope Joe Returns Home!
Posted by Lindsay Perigo on 8/16/2004, 11:46pm

The delightful Joe Rowlands left New Zealand this morning on his way back to Silicon Valley, after a three-week vacation Chez Linz. He picked a good day to leave - the harsh cold of winter really began to bite this morning, probably *because* he'd removed the sunny warmth of his own presence. Several NZ SOLOists will h...(Read more...)

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Miscellaneous Good News - The Sequel!
Posted by Lindsay Perigo on 8/16/2004, 4:05am

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...)

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Miscellaneous Good News: A Sequel
Posted by Lindsay Perigo on 8/14/2004, 10:27pm

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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...)

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The Rational Argumentator Opens Online Store, Invites Contributors
Posted by G. Stolyarov II on 8/10/2004, 11:06am

Greetings. ...(Read more...)

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U.S. Hotel Tycoon Reaches for the Stars
Posted by G. Stolyarov II on 8/08/2004, 6:45pm

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. ...(Read more...)

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Red Adair dies
Posted by albert on 8/08/2004, 8:54am

Red Adair - the great firefighter dies...(Read more...)

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Banjo - Tales from Snowy River
Posted by Peter Cresswell on 8/07/2004, 6:58pm

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...)

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Canadians Join Private Space Race
Posted by Luther Setzer on 8/06/2004, 9:14am

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...)

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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...)

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