milkmiruku + story   7

“When you get right down to it, most security is based on the honor system.”
“No valiant showdown between a small number of larger-than-life geniuses. The battle was lost six months ago, against human fallibility."
blog  it  security  humour  story  narrative  tv  hacking  crack  sysadmin  business  management 
november 2011 by milkmiruku
Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Stories / Down on the Farm by Charles Stross and Craig Phillips
"The thing is, magic is a branch of applied mathematics, and the inmates here are not only mad: they’re computer science graduates. That’s why they came to the attention of the Laundry in the first place, and it’s also why they ultimately ended up in the Farm, where we can keep them away from sharp pointy things and diagrams with the wrong sort of angles. But it’s difficult to make sure they’re safe. You can solve theorems with a blackboard if you have to, after all, or in your head, if you dare."
sci-fi  literature  fiction  writing  shortstory  free  mythos  esoteric  uk  story 
january 2010 by milkmiruku
The Sword of Good
"Perhaps, echoed the other part of himself, but that is not what was actually happening."
fiction  story  ethics  literature  fantasy  interesting 
september 2009 by milkmiruku
Haggling for Hot Dogs - Esquire
(And other real-life adventures in the neglected art of negotiation.) Everything is open to negotiation. Everything. For three months, the author treated the world that way. This is what ensued.
article  business  economics  lifehacks  money  shopping  story  howto  interesting 
august 2007 by milkmiruku
meat.rtf
"There's no doubt about it. We picked up several from different parts of the planet, took them aboard our recon vessels, and probed them all the way through. They're completely meat."
sci-fi  story  aliens  writing  humour  literature  ai  weird  meat 
july 2007 by milkmiruku
Literotica
A large collection of erotic stories.
story  porn  erotica  free 
june 2007 by milkmiruku
Voice of the Hive
"This site is a collection of stories regarding Honeybees and beekeeping. In each one I present a bee’s eye view of major events in the life of colony of honeybees."
bees  story  interesting  howto  nature 
january 2007 by milkmiruku

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