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Welcome to the rebirth of your desire to write.

The Best of The Week

Everything2.com reaches a quarter of a century on this historic day! Like the humble horseshoe crab this beautiful site has persisted for eons of (internet) time. To the outsider it appears as the common ancestor of a wiki and Reddit; walking a middle way between the discussion thread of the moment and the sterile articles of facts. To we souls sailing the node gel it remains the best place to dump our thoughts and feelings. For me personally, the purity of hypertext has always been one of the great strengths of this site. Some pictures may be worth a thousand words but there are trillions of sentences which carry the full beauty of a painting. Most of them have yet to be written.

It's arguably the case that writing is the greatest of human inventions because it's what let's us pile knowledge on top of knowledge. It's definitely the case that the world wide web exists at all because people wanted to share their writings. The internet has broaden exponentially since then but words remain.

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science fiction film with an AI theme.

"I wonder if it's mere coincidence that the title is a Spoonerism of 'semen Deed""
—wertperch

This is the first AI-related film I can recall seeing, ad it deals with both the human hopes for and fear of, artificial intelligence. Hope because soon after being witched on, it develops a cure for leukemia, and fear, because it realises that humanity is failing and

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News for Noders

October 1: Oh no! It's The Halloween Horrorquest!

October 17: Happy Birthday gnarl!

October 31: Something spooky will probably happen today. It usually does.

October 31: prepare yourselves for the XVIInd Iron Noder in November!

If you have an item for this calendar, /msg Tem42.