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I haven’t gotten it yet. w00t w00t, my first first post!!!!!! Yay!!!!!!!
neither have i. boohoo. i got second post! i hope its good. since when has it not? anyway, i was late to renew this year and so i missed the january issue. i was extremely depressed!!!!!
…why are the posts on this thread so far by people who’ve not even gotten the magazine? I thought people were discussing so I came here and was disappointed.
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I thought this issue began to be better quality than those I’ve been seeing lately though not quite as good as Muse’s glory days… (it is up to you to decide when those were…) is the cover by Peter SÃs? I like it a lot. I liked the article by Bill Bryson and the one on evolutionary programs.
Awww, poor baby. I didn’t like the january one that much anyway. But the article about google was cool…
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I was great!
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The evolutionary programs reminded me of something that I’ve been toying with recently, not exactly the same, but close to it. Conway’s Game of Life, run on a grid using 3 or 4 simple rules to govern population growth and death. Very simple, but still fun. This cover was great!
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Just pointing something out…why does the spoiler warning still say February? This is the March issue, isn’t it?
Anyways…not as good as the last one, but better than the one before that. That’s all I’m going to say.
Anyways, (I say that a lot, don’t I?) another MuseBlogger letter got in! YAY!
Oops. Well, you see, we posted it during the month of February…
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I thought that the article about emergence was really cool. I showed it to my family, and my mom said that a better term is self-governing populations, or something. I do think that that’s more accurate.
8 – Oh, I’m sure.
Excuses, excuses. ^_^
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I got my letter published. W00T!
I am S.P. and I sent an angry letter about our beloved GAPAs.
I also said Cats Rule
11- but the GAPA post something about that months ago!
12-I still wrote a letter in January.
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11 – In the March issue?
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I was amused by the Math Page. My iPod headphones ALWAYS get all messed up. *gnashes teeth* But I coil it in a special way. I have actaully found that when I coil it and put the coil alongside the iPod it gets less tangled than when I wrap it around.
And about it being flexible–most of the time the headphone cord is flexible, yes, but when it’s cold (like when I’m shoveling off the sidwalk and rokin’ at the same time. lol) it gets stiff and very un-flexible.
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I figured that I should post this here because it happened in relation to the March Issue:
Following the link in the Slime Mold/”Thinking like a Swarm” article to the “StarLogo” program, I downloaded the installer, and it immediately tried to install itself!
Then my spyware/virus protection program popped up, saying that it had quarantined two programs of “malicious behavior” that were trying to install themselves onto my computer! One of these happened to be a Trojan Downloader (for those of you who don’t know, a Trojan is one of the worst viruses out there), and the other was a pop-up advertisement display program (not as bad but still…):!: 
And all I could think was “Omg. And this program was recommended by Muse?!?!?!”
Is there possibly something here I don’t know, and maybe I downloaded the wrong thing/went to wrong website/ate a rotten avocado and am dreaming all this?? I just hope my anti-virus program caught it in time.
–A horrified fan. (Don’t worry, I’ll still be getting muse, but I’d like to know what happened here)
Augwich — The editors should know about this. I’ve forwarded your message to Muse and will tell you anything I learn.
I just hope that this doesn’t happen to anyone else.
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I just hope that this doesn’t happen to anyone else.
On a brighter note: I realize that I forgot to say anything about the other stuff in the magazine! *Gasp*
Very much enjoyed it (as always). I have to say that I find it quite exiting that some of Bill Bryson’s writings are in the magazine! His Creating a Universe one is read in 8th grade math class here (or there, seeing as I’m writing this from home) at school!
Slime Molds are weird! That’s all I have to say. Their just plain weird! (and pretty cool too)
Interestingly enough, just after I read the Alex the Parrot thing on Bo’s page, my mom called my into the living room to tell me about Alex from an article she was reading in National Geographic. I would like to applaud Muse with it’s uncanny ability to predict the subjects currently being mentioned either at home or at school, and then write an informative article about it that usually proves things others say about it wrong (of course Muse is right. I mean, I’ve used some of their stuff as proof for certain school projects!)
Ok, enough said. I’ll try to leave some room for other posts
(16) Augwich,
The editors at Muse tried downloading the program again and didn’t notice anything unusual. It’s on the MIT Website, isn’t it? That surely ought to be secure. They have no idea why you had the problems you report. It’s puzzling.
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I really liked this issue! Particularly the slime mold and NATIVE AMERICAN WORDS IN ENGLISH! articles. I never thought that there would be an article pertaining to etymology in Muse. It’s almost too good to be true.
Will ppl stop writing SPOILER SPOILER? It says spoiler at the top of the page, and that’s ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!!!
NerdAndProudOf It: The spoiler stuff is to spare people reading your comments in the “Recent Comments” sidebar thing on the front page (I learned that only recently, thinking it was for people who went to this topic to know which comments had spoilers (?))
23- well, then, we don’t need it right now. except if the GAPAs got it going again.
20 – I’ll try the program again (although I’m a little hesitant to…). I’m just wondering if anyone else has run into a similar problem.
I really hate to say this, but I got it a bit bored with that issue. Rats are not the most interesting subject.
Actually, there very interesting (or at least I thinks so).
27- They’re extremely thiggy and can smell a person from inside a paper bag.
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Quite frankly, the first contest winner disgusted me.
HER AVATAR:
Name: Arya
Country: Elevsvarilla
Occupation: Princess.
History: Captured, escaped and returned to homeland.
Personality: Tough, fighter.
ARYA OF ERAGON
Name: Arya
Country: Ellesmera
Occupation: Princess
History: Captured, escaped and returned to homeland
Personality: Tough, fighter.
Hmph.
29- Hmm.
I wish a musebloger sent in there museblog I.D. I was think about TMFA in Musica…
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30- I should have.
Name: Prarilius Canix
Country: Qurtv’s Isle, Hydropastrica, Museican Commonwealth
Occupation: Grand Admiral of Museican Fleet (retired)
History: Born in Crrawton, 1995: first saw combat in the Second Great Pie War, first to circumnavigate globe post-Pie War, fought with distinction in the Freebooters’ Rebellion and in the Queso-Pieplanetian War.
Personality: Shrewd and patriotic old salt, prone to longwindedness.
Weapon of Choice: Coconut cream pie.
No, it wasn’t 1995. Maybe it was ’85.
I say the Great pie war (Norris Vs. Watership Down) was ’80 .
33- That makes sense. Then Canix was probably born in ’85, because the war had been going on for some time when he arrived.
34- make that ’83. one year= one month
35- Makes sense. That would explain the somewhat accelerated nature of Musiverse affairs…
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I just wanted to point out something: On page one, the spoof page, there was a mistake. I realize that, as the spoof page, pg. 1 is not to be noted for its factual accuracy, but I do not believe that this mistake was an intentional thing that was supposed to be funny. Mayhap I’m wrong.
It said that “Once they heard about the reappearance of the ivory-billed woodpecker, they gave Brinkley, AK the beady eye.” The reappearance of the ivory-billed woodpecker definitely did not occur in AK, but rather in Arkansas. AK is the postal code for Alaska (trust me on this–I’ve lived in Alaska all my life), not the code for Arkansas. I believe Arkansas is AR, but I may be wrong. That AK is Arkansas seems to be a common misconception for non Alaskans, however.
My next comment is that i’ve recently been rereading old Muse’s missing from the stash in my room that I discovered on a shelf upstairs (01/02 era). Anyway, in one of them, it mentioned slime molds and had a picture of one that had traversed a maze with food at either end. When i saw the slime mold article in this months edition of Muse, I thought it seemd rather repetetive–although I think this article is more in depth.
Anyway, anybody who likes HP and has read LOTR should go visit the HP summer 2007 thread……
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I totaly agree with Augwich on the Muse having the same things that you learn in school thing. Its cool and rather odd at the same time (do the editors have some kind of super power?). Just want to do smileys:
B) ;( 
(not sure these will work).
How do you do the sad face? I think this will be a devil: }:)
Dang it! The devil didn’t work!
40- : and (
. the devil is : evil : 