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Dakota Frost: the Skindancer Series
http://www.dakotafrost.com/books
The Skindancer series is a trilogy of urban fantasy books about Dakota Frost, a "skindancer" - a magical tattoo artist who can create tattoos that come to life. In Dakota's world, magic, long suppressed by its own practicioners, burst out into the open when it was picked up by the counterculture movement of the 1960's. The Skindancer series starts with Frost Moon, a period piece set in late 2006 in an Atlanta not entirely unlike our own. Skindancer Book 1: Frost Moon. Caught between the rough and tumble ...
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Fanfic Recs
http://www.belladonna.org/Recs/index.html
Unfortunately, maintaining these recs pages has gotten to be too much work, given the amount of fic that I read. So from now on, I'll be keeping track of good fics via my AO3 bookmarks. And the delicious account Grey Bard started for me. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The Count of Monte Cristo femslash. From Eroica With Love. This is a series of, not fanfics, but original fiction about a fanfic writer. Remniscent of Jeeves and Wooster, the stories wittily explore the crazy, wonderful world of fandom.
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Dakota Frost: About the Author
http://www.dakotafrost.com/author.html
Dr Anthony G. Francis, Jr. is a science fiction writer and computer scientist who started writing urban fantasy because he likes it. The Dakota Frost series combines Anthony's love of hard science, fantastic magic, alternative culture, and strong, feisty women. When not making computers smarter or writing science fiction and fantasy, Anthony blogs about his life, his writing and his research at The Library of Dresan. He also writes an occasionally updated webcomic, f@nu fiku. View my complete profile.
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Dr. Anthony G. Francis, Jr. - Research
http://www.dresan.com/software
I've found the following short programs to be useful, especially when bound to Ctrl-Alt-Shift-O in Notepad so they can pop up in less than a second. Check them out. I offer a lot of the smaller pieces of software I write under a modified MIT license called the Poetic License. This comes in two forms: the Micropoetic license, which is short enough to insert into just about any code file, and the "amplified" Poetic License, which expands the Micropoetic License in case of a dispute. Check them out.
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The Library of Dresan: How Wide Should Your Website Be?
http://www.dresan.com/2009/04/how-wide-should-your-website-be.html
Sunday, April 12, 2009. How Wide Should Your Website Be? For the longest time I've tried to design the websites I'm responsible for to be pretty narrow - the Library of Dresan. Is supposed to be just over 800 pixels, fanu fiku. Is supposed to be just over 700 pixels, and Studio Sandi. But that was almost ten years ago. Does that logic still hold? And moving to 900 or more. But rarely more than 1024. Digging around, I found more articles with the same idea - Mario Sanchez. Recommends straight out to optim...
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The Library of Dresan: Blog Tags
http://www.dresan.com/labels
Blog Labels at the Library: The Not-So-Dewey Decimal System. Let you categorize your blog entries with tags - like Development. Or what have you. However, they don't provide an easy way to put these labels into your web page if your site is not hosted on a Blogger server, which the Library of Dresan is not. I've played around with this a bit, but have not yet figured out how to do it. Essays or announcements about my and my wife's art. Um, what it says. Essays about the Dakota Frost series.
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The Library of Dresan
http://www.dresan.com/labels/Restaurant%20Review.html
Wednesday, November 30, 2005. Here's a draft from the past (11/30/05! That never got published for some odd reason. probably because I was packing up for the move to California. Regardless, this is an abbreviated recollection of our date at Canoe. Somehow, in our first three years worth of dating, my then-fiancee, now-wife. Clearly it was high time. SO, we made a night of it and dined at Canoe. And it exceeded all our expectations. Sandi looked stunning in a red and black floral Puimond corset. And I'd s...
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The Library of Dresan
http://www.dresan.com/labels/Pound%20Cake.html
Tuesday, July 07, 2009. So I've mentioned before that I like pound cake, and that I'm working on a recipe. To make this go faster, for a few months I made pound cakes at home, cut them in half, and served half to my coworkers. Based on feedback from me, my wife, my friends, and coworkers (too dry / too moist / just right; more vanilla / less vanilla / you use vanilla? And based on events during the cooking (collapses, crust cracks, etc.) I made changes to the recipe, which I tried the next time. It opens...
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The Library of Dresan: Podmena Traffica Test?
http://www.dresan.com/2009/04/podmena-traffica-test.html
Monday, April 20, 2009. Recently I've been getting a lot of pointless "spam" with a reasonable sounding subject line but a body that only says "podmena traffica test". Mysterious, and pointless, from a spam perspective; so I assumed it was some automatic program testing a variety of addresses to see which ones bounced. Finally I decided to track it down, and while I don't know for sure I've now heard a good hypothesis. Trying to verify his logic: Romanizing "podmena traffica test". Research in AI & IR.
