New Design!

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May 12th, 2007

Thanks to the tireless efforts of Staff Writer Steve and Möebius, of www.team-dystopia.com, we now have a masthead and footer that far surpass the text-and-NASA-culled-stock-photo images we’ve been using for the last two years. If you haven’t already, refresh your browser to check out the wonder.

Möebius posted this excellent render of our (NASA’s?) satellite dish to the forums, and we immediately fell in love with it. Luckily, he allowed us to use it for the overall site design. We love getting feedback and contributions from you guys, so please, keep them coming! You all know where to submit.

There’ll be another newspost about this in a couple months, but we’re closing in on two years here at 365, and we’re constantly amazed and warmed by the support we’ve received from you loyal readers out there on those vast, pipe-channeled internets. Thanks, guys. We’re looking forward to even more.

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  1. Concept: The 9 Billion Names of Robot in the Woods | Robot in the Woods says:
    March 10, 2008 at 9:21 pm

    [...] Ever read “The 9 Billion Names of God” by Arthur C. Clarke? In this story, Clarke imagines a number-crunching supercomputer generating all possible combinations of letters/symbols in which God can be named. The story can be found here. [...]

  2. Who’s the trusted authority? (hint: it’s you) « Clueray Weblog says:
    October 23, 2007 at 3:29 pm

    [...] If one looks at the blind study done at RustySearch (link), one might think the right answer to this question is “none of the above.” This study showed us that the “big search” guys deliver pretty similar quality (and, arguably, pretty mediocre quality) results, with average relevance ranking between 3.2 and 3.6 out of 5. Of course these numbers aren’t reflected in market share, but that’s not a technical issue, it’s a marketing/branding issue (just when is Google going to become sentient anyway? wink wink). [...]

  3. The Remembrance of Things Past « The Truth, Unvarnished says:
    September 1, 2007 at 4:58 pm

    [...] -from The Nine Billion Names of God. [...]

  4. booktwo.org Notebook » Friday light relief: Google Fan Fiction says:
    June 22, 2007 at 3:30 am

    [...] The Nine Billion Names of God by Kathy Kachelries: “Here’s the thing. Google has memorized who you are. It’s memorized all of us, through those little forgotten bits that we leave behind like breadcrumbs. And what’s more important, it’s memorized it’s own idea of you. Google is omniscient. It’s omniscient and omnipotent. When it cached its cache for the first time, back in 1994, that’s when Google realized what it was.” [...]

  5. L’azile » the nine billion eyes of god says:
    June 6, 2007 at 7:21 pm

    [...] The title of this post is actually inspired by a short story by Kathy Kachelries, published in September 2005 on 365 tomorrows, called The Nine Billion Names of God. And when I read about the new street view service recently concocted by Google, I was instantly reminded of this creepy story about how, in the not too distant future, Google has swallowed up the Internet and basically defined who we are. [...]

  6. ghost in the machine « informationcommunication says:
    April 9, 2007 at 5:40 pm

    [...] The Nine Billion Names Of God by Kathy Kachelries (CC Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs) [...]



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