Life, Interrupted

This is actually a good idea for an isolated genetic group. Several engineers created an app tied to the ‘Íslendingabók‘ database to solve the problem.

On Nuala during Sheel and Darame's time, they actually have something similar. The Atares do not forbid marriage between two fertiles related within a certain number of degrees, but they DO limit how many children that couple can have between themselves.

Regular Nualans can have group marriages and give that child as many half-siblings as they can.

Three engineers made an app for the ‘Íslendingabók‘ database. People can now easily, and on the go, look up how they are related to other Icelanders. And a precious feature, using the bump technology, allows people that meet to just bump their phones together, to instantly see if they are too related to take things any further. The engineers’ slogan for this feature was: “Bump the app before you bump in bed”.

Good News:

I've inherited a Kindle!

Bad News:

Most of my ebooks are in EPUB format!

No, not a new movie, as far as I know -- but a loving fan tribute to the original movie. I saw this on SF Signal and have to share -- full screen --

http://tinyurl.com/ydhf2rs

You will want to see the movie again! Here's SF Signal's link. They also have the original trailer from 1982, which now feels like a fan effort, in the old sense of the words. What a difference a few years makes!

http://tinyurl.com/yde6v8u

FreePress has released their September, 2006 report. Consumer's Union and Consumer Federation of America signed off on it, too.


"With every passing month, the United States falls further behind the global leaders in broadband
Internet access thanks to a combination of market and policy failures. Our markets lack the
competition to bring lower prices, higher speeds, and universal access. Our policies lack the
imagination and potency to create real change. Meanwhile, Americans pay more money for less
service than a dozen other nations. A third of U.S households are still stuck with dial-up, and
another third lack Internet access of any kind. Our broadband problem is becoming a crisis."


http://www.freepress.net/docs/bbrc2-execsum.pdf

Why does this exist? Because the big boys didn't think they could make any money at it, so a smaller business made a proposal. (And it was an Austin, TX company!)

"While cities around the country are battling over plans to offer free or cheap Internet access, this lonely terrain is served by what is billed as the world's largest hotspot, a wireless cloud that stretches over 700 square miles of landscape so dry and desolate it could have been lifted from a cowboy tune."