tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10115422012-01-22T11:03:31.916-08:00Avatars R usIntroducing another new chapter for the upcoming work of non-fiction essays by author Douglas McDaniel.<br> To review or purchase his books, visit: <br> <a href="http://www.lulu.com/mythville">Mythville Book Store</a> <br>Douglas McDanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17709941464730435476noreply@blogger.comBlogger181100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1011542.post-1152041857543038262006-07-04T12:37:00.000-07:002006-07-04T12:37:37.560-07:0023 Roads to MythvilleAn apocalyptic journey across America and meditation on the imposition of order in space, both cyber and dirt real. By experiential author Douglas McDaniel, who explores the mysteries of American networked life. Read more Ipswich at WarA few days after Sept. 11, 2001, poet and essayist Douglas McDaniel moved to Ipswich, on the North Shore of Massachusetts. A collection of Douglas McDanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17709941464730435476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1011542.post-1100837099835974442004-11-18T20:00:00.000-08:002006-05-03T07:51:13.950-07:00A Funny Thing Happened on the Road to AtenveldtBy Douglas McDanielMythville.com How do we embrace this? Isn't the Society for Creative Anachronism, a clan of modern folk who dress up and act like people from medieval times, merely an endorsement for one of the most brutal epochs in world history? Life was cheap during the Crusades, during the Inquisition, and the End Was Near on a daily Douglas McDanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17709941464730435476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1011542.post-1100110709583037302004-11-10T10:18:00.000-08:002004-11-10T10:18:29.583-08:0010x10 / 100 Words and Pictures that Define the Time / by Jonathan J. HarrisDouglas McDanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17709941464730435476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1011542.post-1093898429420636862004-08-30T13:40:00.000-07:002004-08-30T13:40:29.420-07:00Google Search: MythvilleDouglas McDanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17709941464730435476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1011542.post-1093100975392365302004-08-21T08:09:00.000-07:002004-08-21T08:09:35.393-07:00Key dates in the history of GoogleDouglas McDanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17709941464730435476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1011542.post-70996412001-11-13T15:05:00.000-08:002001-11-13T15:05:16.383-08:00 Just Huck, Baby! By Douglas McDaniel Mythville MetaMedia “I was lying in a burned-out basement With the full moon in my eye I was hoping for replacement When the sunburst through the sky There was a band playing in my head And I felt like getting high Thinking about what a friend had said I was hoping it was a lie. All in a dream … in a dream, The loading had begun. Flying mother nature Douglas McDanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17709941464730435476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1011542.post-28305652001-03-18T09:05:00.000-08:002001-03-18T09:09:47.246-08:00e-Mail to Eden:And other post-suburban adventuresin online explorenographyBy Douglas McDanielImagine Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, crossing uncharted America, cybercasting to transfixed wannabe settlers on the Eastern Seaboard. Among them, President Thomas Jefferson, who keys in “Louisiana” and clicks on “purchase.” Envision an Amelia Earhart, still alive if she’d only been more techno Douglas McDanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17709941464730435476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1011542.post-27776872001-03-14T11:50:00.000-08:002001-03-14T11:53:35.473-08:00Thou Shalt Trespass'Urban Explorers' go where they aren't wantedBy Douglas McDanielThe city is the next great frontier, say the purveyors of Web sites for urban adventurers, those surreptitious souls who enter the crawl spaces of civilization to reveal their mysteries. A "Keep Out" sign is the boundary to uncharted wilderness. "Off-limits" means "go there." The online zine Infiltration is about "Douglas McDanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17709941464730435476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1011542.post-12947722000-11-07T09:11:00.000-08:002001-03-08T11:30:27.093-08:00Idea Exchange: A Secured Marketplace for Intellectual CapitalismFirst came the genie in the bottle. Next, information: the mercurial, uncontainable trickster. Then, David Letterman’s move from NBC to CBS, and “intellectual property” enters the swirling cosmos of pop. Followed by Napster.com and the battle over copyright law on the Net. Now comes IdeaExchange.com, the e-Bay of intellectual Douglas McDanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17709941464730435476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1011542.post-12819582000-11-06T05:13:00.000-08:002000-11-06T05:13:56.806-08:00Globus at core of ambitious new Grid Physics Network project The Universities of Florida and Chicago will lead an $11.9 million initiative that will lay the groundwork for a computer data grid of unprecedented speed and power, the National Science Foundation announced. The initiative, called the Grid Physics Network, or GriPhyN (pronounced "griffin"), is funded by the largest grant in the Douglas McDanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17709941464730435476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1011542.post-12180812000-10-30T07:33:00.000-08:002000-10-30T07:33:39.320-08:00The Psychology of Cyberspace:As each day passes, a long-standing project by John Shuler, Ph.D., a professor of psychology at Rider University, becomes more an more relevant. Douglas McDanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17709941464730435476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1011542.post-11747572000-10-25T07:02:00.000-07:002000-10-25T07:02:37.670-07:00NSA Spring Board for Start-Up"One of the most promising firms on the U.S. computer security market at present draws its expertise directly from the NSA's research laboratories," according Intelligence Online. The Netsec company, founded by two former NSA men, Jerry Harold and Ken Ammon.The company's president, Harold, worked for 12 years in the NSA's "Puzzle Palace" at Fort Meade. Among the Douglas McDanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17709941464730435476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1011542.post-11645362000-10-24T06:20:00.000-07:002000-10-24T06:20:11.640-07:00Mythville Douglas McDanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17709941464730435476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1011542.post-10703462000-10-13T06:15:00.000-07:002000-10-13T06:15:21.966-07:00File Not Found: Cyberbabble Explained by Douglas McDaniel Do you speak Geek? Feel a tinge of dread at the sight of an encrypted acronym? Don't worry, your anxiety is pretty typical. You can prove yourself worthy of any venture capital that's left, though, if you learn to use the cyberbabble out there. Technobabble is a virus on the Web, and it's mutating. Neologisms are forming so fast in theDouglas McDanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17709941464730435476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1011542.post-10636132000-10-12T11:57:00.000-07:002000-10-12T11:57:38.013-07:00Lit Myth Test Interactive Call and Response Douglas McDanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17709941464730435476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1011542.post-10585712000-10-11T20:52:00.000-07:002000-10-11T20:52:12.466-07:00 Mythville Mythville Music Last Water Mythville Author FAQ Douglas McDanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17709941464730435476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1011542.post-10152672000-10-06T14:52:00.000-07:002000-10-06T14:52:32.966-07:00Gemstar, Thomson Read Future of E-BooksDouglas McDanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17709941464730435476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1011542.post-10115772000-10-06T06:12:00.000-07:002000-10-06T06:12:06.420-07:00 Today's Recommended Downloads SpotOn Allows you to e-mail multiple caches of Web pages. Ideal if you have a theme, or, say, a collection of bloggers you want to share with someone else. Alexa Provides handy links that relate to the Web page you are looking at, plus tons of information on the site, how many people are using it, how often it's being refreshed, as well as where it originates. Douglas McDanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17709941464730435476noreply@blogger.com