strange radiation: the pool of radiance archive
Adventures with an unreliable narrator.
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Mar 1 03: it's alive!
Wow. The creature has escaped and is running amok.
The Horror of Blimps has been picked up by the Internet Stream of Hipness. I’ve received links to it on e-mail discussion groups I receive (like the one about the Foglios’ fabulous Girl Genius); I’ve found links to it on blogs I read (like Theresa Nielsen Hayden’s, which is marvelous). Suddenly, this thing is everywhere. The ‘views’ count on the thread itself, back on the board, has gone berserk—it’s clearly about to become the most-viewed thread in board history. It has spawned its own metathreads. Fascinating: we’re watching this thing be born, and it may turn into one of those things that circulates forever. That, or it will finally get the SDMB kicked off the Chicago Reader’s server (known as ‘the hamsters’) for taxing it beyond its capacity.
(With that in mind, I’ve changed the various links so they point at a non-SDMB archive of the piece. Poor hamsters…)