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Gigaom | Inside Details of Sequoia Capital's Doomsday Meeting With its Companies

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The industry leader in emerging technology research. Inside Details of Sequoia Capital's Doomsday Meeting With its Companies. Oct 9, 2008 - 11:27 AM PDT. Updated with the Sequoia powerpoint. Last night I reported. On a special meeting held by Sequoia Capital for its portfolio companies, warning them about the fiscal hurricane that was going to hit them, and how they’d better figure out ways to survive what could be a big downturn. These were the four speakers:. He advised startups to make drastic changes...

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Armed Autonomy: Mechatronics plus Software plus Ammo | Shepherd's Pi

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124; Comments RSS. Subscribe to Shepherd's Pi. Enter your email address to subscribe to ShepherdsPi; you'll receive instant email notifications of new posts. Join 6,913 other followers. RIP Justice Antonin Scalia. Burning Man, Artificial Intelligence, and Our Glorious Future. Slow-Live-blogging #NASASocial for CRS7 Launch. Twitter Search as a Government case study. Intelligence, Artificial and Existential. Egypt's Supreme Court. A Roadmap for Innovation - from Center or the Edge? Stop being so touchy.

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PennerBlog: September 2011

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Blog of Author and Artist Stephen Penner. Thursday, September 8, 2011. Evolution of an Illustration. I recently sent "Prof. Barrister's Dinosaur Mysteries #5: THE CASE OF THE CRESTED CRYPTOCLIDUS. Off to my publisher, Nimble Books. But as an author-illustrator. Sending a work to my pub means more than just the manuscript; it also means the illustrations. Now, just like the text, illustrations can go through edits. From THE CRESTED CRYPTOCLIDUS that I thought was kind of interesting. S snout was too blunt...

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Livros na área de Arquivologia, Biblioteconomia e CI - BV Arquivologia, Biblioteconomia e Ciência da Informação

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BV Arquivologia, Biblioteconomia e Ciência da Informação. Fontes e Recursos na área de Arquivologia, Biblioteconomia e Ciência da Informação. O que são fontes e recursos informacionais? Anais de congressos, simpósios, encontros, painéis. Listas e diretórios de discussões. Sites, diretórios e mecanismos de busca. Bibliotecas da área de Ciências da Saúde. Bibliotecas escolares da Rede Municipal - Florianópolis. Bibliotecas universitárias - Faculdades. Bibliotecas jurídicas em Santa Catarina. Apresenta 53 m...

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Reasons to be Cheerful - Charlie's Diary

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Being the blog of Charles Stross, author, and occasional guests . Back to: Another one bites the dust. Forward to: PSA: Locus. Reasons to be Cheerful. Elsewhere on the interwebbytubes, an acquaintance asked, somewhat grumpily, if. Good had happened in the past decade (aside from the iPod). So I went dumpster-diving in memory lane for things to feel good about . Prior to 1988, diagnosis with AIDS was essentially a death sentence. I'd call that an improvement. Wouldn't you? The number of people living in p...

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PennerBlog: November 2011

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Blog of Author and Artist Stephen Penner. Sunday, November 27, 2011. The Future of MY Writing Industry. Last week I blogged about the future of the writing industry. And in particular the future of. Writing. Now I will officially announce the decision I hinted at then. I will be releasing my new science fiction novel, MARS STATION. All by myself. (*listens/hopes for applause*) It will be available this Saturday, December 3, in Kindle. Format, followed very shortly by paperback. Links to this post. Read t...

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PennerBlog: May 2011

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Blog of Author and Artist Stephen Penner. Friday, May 27, 2011. The Case of the Colorful Caudipteryx. Professor Barrister's Dinosaur Mysteries #4) has. And to celebrate I am giving away 3 autographed (and doodled on) copies. Over at Goodreads.com. If you're already on Goodreads, just click over and enter to win. If you're not, then you should sign up. It's a great place to meet writers and readers and people who love books of all kinds. The give away ends at midnight June 3, so don't delay! Third graders...

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Fear and Loathing in the Blogosphere: July 2010

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Fear and Loathing in the Blogosphere. It's not enough to bash in heads, you've got to bash in minds" - -Captain Hammer. Monday, July 26, 2010. The Failed Presidency of Barack Obama, pt 2. The breaking wikileaks scandal has the possibility of becoming a true Katrina moment for Barack Obama, depending on how things shake ou. But as the early-viewing. In January 2009 to plot vengeance for the drone-inflicted death of an al-Qaeda operative. (Gul called it “absolute nonsense” to the. Typically, NATO accounts ...

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Wizards of Oz

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Life is fraughtless . when you're thoughtless.". Nearly 25 years ago, as a freshman college student balancing a science major with the obligatory credits in the Humanities, my English 101 professor introduced me to the concept of verisimilitude. The likeness or resemblance of a creative writing effort to reality. While this was a difficult feat for me in my writing assignments, it is something that Luke Larson has effortlessly achieved in his first novel, Senator’s Son. Written in a tempo. Larson’s use o...