A fast update on life…
Well, disaster has been narrowly averted. In a miracle of 42nd street
proportions an previous investor in dotPublishing has graciously lend us some
enough money to keep the doors open for a while. This has significantly
increased our chance for survival. The "Tiem to Live" clock has been reset at
40-45 days… we had hoped to shoot for 60+ but the bills thatn need to be paid
that haven’t int he last too months are a little to insistent for that after we
really worked it all out.
We are working with an investment professional now, and will be expanding
that outreach this coming eek to prepare the way for the additional funding we
need – as well as expanding the circle of people we are in discussions with.
I’ll post more about how we are handling this as we go on.
Some other things…
* Go check out the
review and discussion over at Kuro5hin.org about a book called "Not Harmful
to Minors". I won’t repeat the information here in the interests of space and
time. It’s worth checking out, and worth thinking about this all before the
witch hunts get any more bizarre.
* Take a minute and read this article on
why the Empire just isn’t such a bad thing in the
Wars universe.
"What’s more, it’s not clear that they should be "protecting" anyone.
The Jedi are Lucas’s great heroes, full of Zen wisdom and righteous power.
They encourage people to "use the Force"–the mystical energy which is the
source of their power–but the truth, revealed in "The Phantom Menace," is
that the Force isn’t available to the rabble. The Force comes from midi-chlorians,
tiny symbiotic organisms in people’s blood, like mitochondria. The Force, it
turns out, is an inherited, genetic trait. If you don’t have the blood, you
don’t get the Force. Which makes the Jedi not a democratic militia, but a
royalist Swiss guard." –
full article
More later!