The other trainers at The Estate are obviously my first line of discussion along with the other amazing people we have associated with us here in both official and unofficial capacities. – but it is always useful to look outside of that group to prevent myopia. Besides we all know what we mean, but it…

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Some interesting links on a recent issue regarding creative writing and patent issues… Right to Create Patenting Storylines Right to Create Details of ‘804 First Storyline Patent in History Slashdot USPTO Issues Provisional Storyline Patent

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Some tech news: Microsoft buys Foldershare – this is way cool news You can take a look at the new Xbox live features right now – awesome!

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Ed. Note: Reposted with minor edits. Originally posted October 9, 2003 @ 18:12:33. The original was taken offline temporarily. A discussion of consent came up on one of the lists I am on. Basically this is a philosophical argument. It hinges on mostly on the question of whether we can state simply "everyone always has…

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The Hacker’s Diet – “how to lose weight and hair through stress and poor nutrition”. Seriously, it looks like an interesting primer to basic diet and health concepts.

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Richard III Society-15thCentury Life: Codpiece – The following is a paper done by Ms. Kosir for a History of Costume class taken as part of her continuing studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. We are grateful to her for allowing its reproduction here, in the Fifteenth-Century Lifestyles section of the Richard III Society website.

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What Tolkien Officially Said About Elf Sex – Summary: A cross-referenced list of everything Tolkien said about elf sex. Update Note: NEW linguistic update! From Tolkien word-lists published in 2002. Read this translated into German here!

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I recently did some extensive work in PHP that needed a good template engine. I wound up using Smarty and it did the job just fine. In particular I wound up connecting Smarty to MySql for a cache store. Anyway, the following links are useful: Building a dynamic webpage using PHP, MySQL and Smarty – especially…

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E.d. Note: Reposted with minor edits. Origionally posted – November 10, 2003 @ 10:48:52. The origional was taken offline temporarily. The following was posted by my own Tatsumi to a mailing list for TES members. The discussion was one I was fairly deeply involved in, all about the concept of whether “no” neans “no” all…

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