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Biographical coincidence

Submitted by dave on Wed, 04/08/2009 - 22:43
Reference
Booktitle: 
The Diamond Age
Pages: 
20
ISBN: 
014027037

Locations

Ames High School
United States
42° 2' 27.2796" N, 93° 38' 2.1948" W
Iowa State University (Ames)
United States
42° 1' 25.6008" N, 93° 38' 45.528" W

In the passage about Lord Alexander Chung-Sik Finkle-McGraw's biography it is mentioned that he attended the Iowa State University of Science and Technology in Ames. As Stephenson reveals in his essay In the beginning was the command linehe spend part of his youth in Ames, where his family moved in 1966 and where he graduated from Ames High School in 1977.

Fubar

Submitted by dave on Tue, 04/07/2009 - 08:41
Reference
Booktitle: 
The Diamond Age
Pages: 
7
ISBN: 
014027037

In the passage describing Source Victoria it is mentioned that "ecosystems were especially tiresome when they got fubared" (emphasis not in the original). The meaning is that ecosystems are hard to control from an engineering point of view, once they are destroyed, the term fubar meaning fucked up beyond any repair.

Fine golden beer from Pilsen

Submitted by Da5id on Sun, 04/05/2009 - 22:47
Reference
Booktitle: 
Quicksilver
Pages: 
422
ISBN: 
0434008931

Locations

Pilsen
Czech Republic
49° 44' 47.508" N, 13° 23' 10.2336" E
Leipzig
Germany
51° 20' 43.0944" N, 12° 22' 55.5852" E

Golden beer from Pilsen usually refers to Pilsener Urquell, according to its own marketing department: "Das erste goldene Bier der Welt" (The world's first golden beer). The formula for Pilsener beer (usually called lager in English) only dates back to 1842, when a brewery in Pilsen started brewing it under the aformentioned name. Nowadays Pilsener Urquell is owned by the multinational SAB Miller group.

Nealism's user map: Find your nearest fellow Nealist

Submitted by dave on Sun, 03/29/2009 - 20:07

Registered users on Nealism.net can now connect to fellow Nealists in exciting new ways. On their personal profiles page every user can submit data about himself including geographical coordinates. On Nealism's user's map you can see the location of other community members.

This service is available to registered user's only. And of course no user is required to reveal any details unless he wishes to do so. If you want to see for yourself, do not hesitate to register now.

Nealism.net 2.0

Submitted by dave on Mon, 03/16/2009 - 00:29

Just over four years ago on February, 10th 2005 Nealism.net went online. Back then the site had grown from a bookmark file and bibliography I had created. It was a vast improvement over the text file, but still a lonely endeavor, since the only way to interact with the content was to read it (and click the links).

Which novel by Neal Stephenson was the first you read?

Submitted by dave on Sun, 03/15/2009 - 22:48
The Big U
0% (0 votes)
Zodiac
0% (0 votes)
Snow Crash
67% (2 votes)
Interface
0% (0 votes)
The Diamond Age
0% (0 votes)
The Cobweb
0% (0 votes)
Cryptonomicon
33% (1 vote)
Quicksilver
0% (0 votes)
The Confusion
0% (0 votes)
The System of the World
0% (0 votes)
Anathem
0% (0 votes)
Total votes: 3
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