Contests, Free Stuff
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"All great artists love free food."
     Homer Simpson

DOWNLOADS

FICTION

Every file in these sections is in Adobe Acrobat format (*.pdf). If you don't have an Acrobat Reader, you can get one free at www.adobe.com.

"The Soft Heart of the Electron"
Another of my published stories, July-August 1989. This one has nice artwork and scanned images. (10.1 mb)
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"Illness in a Word"
One of my published stories, April 1991. (65.7 kb)
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"Authorial Intrusion"
A different kind of ghost story and one of my "disappearing magazine" stories, August 2000. (60.7 kb)
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"Aristomania"
Another of my "disappearing magazine" stories, July 1996. (81.4 kb)
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ARTICLES AND ESSAYS

"HOW IT WAS: A Personal Account of the Greensburg Tornado"
July 2007. (3 mb)
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"Calling All Ewoks"
A response to the "Endor Holocaust" theory, October 2006. (58 kb)
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"What's Wrong with ELANCE.COM?"
Web review article, July 2000. (83.1 kb)
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AUDIO/VIDEO

"Radio Cyberpunk"
Zipped collection. Includes the image of the cassette cover art. Here is the radio show Radio Cyberpunk and the interviews with the three founders of the Cyberpunk literary movement, William Gibson, John Shirley, and Bruce Sterling. Gawd I forgot when I did this, c. 1990? (66.4 mb)
download it

"Radio Cyberpunk, Side 1"
The show's producer, Joel Sanderson, made the mp3 files of the show and kept them in a corner of his web site, demolitionkitchen.com. All praise to him!! (33.7 mb)
listen to it

"Radio Cyberpunk, Side 2"
(34.8 mb)
listen to it

"Radio Cyberpunk, Cassette Cover Art"
(38 kb)
look at it

FREE JAVASCRIPT

I wrote the code listed below. I was inspired by many different sources, both on the internet and in programming textbooks. (Legalities: the specific javascript programs below were written by me and are freely given to you to use as you see fit; but I make no claims as to their effectiveness, nor do I indemnify you against any loss incurred from their use.) Use them as you want. To download the text files, right-click on the link and select "save target as . . ."

This nice bit of code sorts a visitor's browser and redirects it to the appropriate page.
b-sortrb.txt

Those popup windows I'm so fond of, well, here's the code for them. If it seems familiar to you, that's because there's really only one way to accomplish this easily in javascript.
winpoprb.txt

Here's the code for the multiple rollover effect I use in the opening page to this site. It's long, but it is simple.
m-rollrb.txt

My most creative effort so far. Miffed by the lack of any way to pair images and captions easily, I wrote a javascript slideshow program to do just that. The code's simple and small.
s-show-01rb.txt


FREE GRAPHICS

I created the artwork below using a variety of graphics programs, most notably PaintShop Pro and RayDream 3D. Use them, if you want. If you wish to download these graphics files, right-click on the link and select "save target as . . ."

This is an animated spinning question mark. It's flat, that is, it was not generated in Raydream. I think I have a 3D question mark which rotates, but I'll have to root in the hard drive to find it. Don't hold your breath.
anitinyques01.gif

This animation was created using RayDream 3D. History gets around, doesn't it?
anihist02.gif