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01/26/2005 01:01 #31603
Collecting01/26/2005 00:58 #31602
Serial Cable01/25/2005 16:04 #31601
Mini JoystickI totally enjoy the programming, it is so much more my style. I wish the circuit board would stop demanding so much.

01/24/2005 22:10 #31600
Rheingold is so greatThe way you meet people in cyberspace puts a different spin on affiliation: in traditional kinds of communities, we are accustomed to meeting people, then getting to know them; in virtual communities, you can get to know people and then choose to meet them.
This is so funny, it is about a user addicted to the WELL, an early online community:
Years after he had kicked his cocaine habit, he claimed, somebody put a line of the substance next to Blair's computer while he was logged on. It dawned on him, several hours later, that the white crystals were still there, and he had known about them, but had not mustered the energy necessary to sniff them. It wasn't a moral decision but a battle of obsessions, Blair explained--he couldn't tear his hands from the keyboard and his eyes from the screen of his current, deeper addiction long enough to ingest the cocaine.