...ehwhat?
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onomatopoeicneologism,
Fri 15 May 2009, 20:20,
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Isn't that a collider of some sort ?
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Valin I changed glasses while I wasn't looking,
Fri 15 May 2009, 20:27,
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No, a Smartwheel from Snow Crash
So it is neither funny nor original, I just remembered that Neal Stephenson had already literally reinvented the wheel and saw an excuse to render one.
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onomatopoeicneologism,
Fri 15 May 2009, 20:39,
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It does look rather nifty indeed !
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Valin I changed glasses while I wasn't looking,
Fri 15 May 2009, 20:41,
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ohhh! I thought it was some kind of virus, or nanotech
very cool, any which way (I do like Snow Crash - am ploughing through 'The System of the World' at the moment...)
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The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated,
Fri 15 May 2009, 21:15,
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