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Kulalyle Anatine arcs into a new year with a band of revelers at the Winter Festival
For the first time since 2003, the world's coming year seems in tumult, with no reliable outcome in the vast scheme of things-- except, that is, for the things that matter most: more creativity, more innovation, and a more global community, bringing the best of themselves into this twinkling slipstream of ones and zeroes that describe the sum of our imagination.
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That's pretty artful prose, Hamlet. Me thinks yer not so bad a scribe. P
Happy New Year!
Posted by: Bettina Tizzy | Tuesday, January 01, 2008 at 09:21 AM
There are never "certain" outcomes
to a new year. But I wish you the
best and a wonderful 2008.
Posted by: Seraphine | Tuesday, January 01, 2008 at 11:10 AM
Happy 2008! Thanks for all the great stories this year.
We'll muddle along. Cynic that I am, I think we aren't doing so badly--recall when 40K concurrence seemed to be the end of the world?
I'm popping a belated cork in honor of all my SL friends...good luck in the year ahead.
Posted by: Ignatius Onomatopoeia | Tuesday, January 01, 2008 at 06:36 PM