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It's been over a year since I last shared my submissions.
  • 2002-01-26 19:19:09 Upscale, and I mean, *Upscale*, Cell Phones (articles,tech) (rejected)
    Does anybody remember those overpriced cellphones Nokia tried to sell to Cross Pen crowd? Months later they accepted this story from somebody else, probably because he was less sarcastic than me.
  • 2002-02-07 16:29:29 An impressive new meta-search engine (articles,tech) (rejected)
  • 2002-02-12 15:31:05 The Cold War's Legacy of Mutation (articles,science) (accepted)
    Too many twits saw this as an X-Men reference
  • 2002-02-12 16:24:28 Star Trek: TMP finally released (articles,movies) (rejected)
    Something about the director's cut finally getting out or something. Probably just as well it was rejected
  • 2002-02-13 18:01:38 When lightening strikes (articles,science) (rejected)
  • 2002-02-13 18:11:12 Can the Mac invade the Unix workstation market? (articles,unix) (rejected)
    The short answer: no.
  • 2002-03-22 18:07:46 Guilt-Free Meat (articles,science) (rejected)
    The older SF that I prefer has things like "meat trees" or "chicken vats". But in this nanotech/cyberpunk world, cultured meat is no longer a geeky concept
  • 2002-03-26 01:19:38 It's not a cell phone -- it's an Instrument! (articles,tech) (rejected)
    Tried again for the actual product launch
  • 2002-03-30 22:30:04 Thumbs Up! (articles,tech) (rejected)
    I'm mystified at this rejection. It turns out that things like cell phones and game controlers are causing basic changes in the human hand. I'd have thought Slashdotters would be fascinated
  • 2002-04-16 15:45:24 The Threat of Nanodust (articles,tech) (rejected)
  • 2002-04-18 15:48:44 Google Lockouts (articles,internet) (rejected)
  • 2002-06-20 16:34:20 Just when you thought it was safe to download .... (articles,security) (rejected)
  • 2002-07-16 22:54:25 Schneier Calls Unicode Insecure (articles,news) (rejected)
  • 2002-09-20 17:04:43 Firefly Premieres Tonight (articles,tv) (accepted)
    Two sad/silly things about this one: Lots of clueless conspiracy freaks "proving" that I was a shill for Fox. And internal network politics managed to kill the show even before the first episode aired. Another thing: I liked the show better than 90% of the TV SF I've seen, but the sad fact is that Joss Whedon doesn't have a "hard SF" mindset.
  • 2003-04-17 05:49:30 Six wireless protocols in one (sort of) little PDA (articles,portables) (rejected)
    I tried for a humorous take, and got rejected. More solemn submission accepted a few days later.
  • 2003-05-10 07:14:45 A Palm for Every Purpose (articles,pilot) (accepted)
    Being a compulsive/professional nitpicker, I always say "Palm" instead of "Palm Pilot". Strictly speaking "Pilot" only refers to certain discontinued models, though most people still refer to all Palm PDAs as "Palm Pilots". Maybe the temptation to make masturbation jokes is why....
  • 2003-06-06 06:18:46 The Sim on TV (articles,tv) (rejected)
    Duh! Was on Slashdot months ago!
  • 2003-06-30 17:30:47 Do the Google Dance! (articles,internet) (rejected)
  • 2003-06-30 17:58:11 Can Madison Save Itanium? (articles,intel) (rejected)
  • 2003-07-09 16:28:14 Can WirelessMAN solve the Last Mile Problem? (articles,wireless) (rejected)
    Metro Area Networks may well be the Next Big Thing. Shortsighted of the editors not to be interested.
  • 2003-07-19 21:51:49 The end of the Devil's Highway (articles,news) (rejected)
    U.S. 666 (so named because it was the sixth spur of old Route 66), got renamed. I thought it was a good story, but I guess it wasn't geeky enough.
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  • What's the website for the changes in the human hand thing? I wanna read it; sounds cool.

    • Re:Hmm (Score:2)

      by fm6 ( 162816 )
      No web site. It was in the news. Somebody did a study showing that most people younger than a certain age had stronger thumb muscles than older people, and tended to use their thumbs instead of their forefingers for things like pushing doorbell buttons. The theory was that people who've grown up playing video games and using cell phones develop different fingering habits.

      Don't know where there's more info. Might try news.google.com.

      • Well, since there was no site, that MIGHT be the reason it was rejected... =p

        • Re:Hmm (Score:2)

          by fm6 ( 162816 )
          I had lots of news links. Don't have them any more, and even if I did, they'd probably make you pay to look at them.

    • It was on Slashdot: Thumbs Are the New Fingers for GameBoy Youth [slashdot.org], Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday March 24, @11:56AM. (Unfortunately, Reuters has since deleted the linked story.) Fm6's article on 2002-03-30 would have been a dupe.

  • I remember reading about it sometime back in June itself; personally, found it very interestingg. ;-)
    • If you want to read more, here are the links I accumulated for the submission. Thanks to ClipMate, it's easy to recover my old clipboard contents. My clever submission text is lost forever, alas.

      http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=51 9&ncid=757&e=10&u=/ap/20030719/ap_on_re_us/devil_s _highway
      http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/6 339317.htm
      http://evilbeastkingdom.com/beastsmark /
      http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/us666.ht m

  • Stop rejecting me, you evil bitches!

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