Foxes Are Known For That Sort of Thing

alternateorg on January 5, 2001

It makes you smile a little when you see a major media corporation realize that they had really had no idea what they were doing on the internet.

My favorite part. “…two other executives, who insisted on anonymity, said most of the employees would be laid off and then given a chance to
reapply for their jobs.” Fire’m, then hire’m back at half the pay. Clever.

I'm An Idiot. Sorry.

alternateorg on January 2, 2001

So it appears that I forgot an end-bracket in the form on the ‘A Freakin’ Message Board…’ item in the survey code. If you voted for us to add a message board, but never saw your vote count, you can re-cast it, and it’ll count it now.

2001: An Odyssey of Some Sort, Anyway

alternateorg on January 1, 2001

As a bright-eyed 13-year old, I read Arthur C. Clarke’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey,’ and ever since, it’s been a pretty special book to me. Before I lost interest in science fiction, I read the rest of the series (‘2010’ and ‘2061’), and got totally immersed into Clarke’s view of the world. I mean, what else can you say about a guy that initially made up the idea of using a planet’s gravity to slingshot into space, only to have NASA try it out and find that it WORKS? So I thought he was cool, and I’ve been looking forward to the kinds of things that were in ‘2001,’ and also the year itself. So here we are. Curious about what Clarke & Kubrick got right? Check this out.