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[challenge entry] bindun
...harder'n yirmum

From the Reinventing The Wheel challenge. See all 162 entries (closed)

(onomatopoeicneologism, Fri 15 May 2009, 20:08, archived)
# A collision course has been now given . . .
(I helped save b3ta! Valin I changed glasses while I wasn't looking, Fri 15 May 2009, 20:12, archived)
#
...ehwhat?
(onomatopoeicneologism, Fri 15 May 2009, 20:20, archived)
# Isn't that a collider of some sort ?
(I helped save b3ta! Valin I changed glasses while I wasn't looking, Fri 15 May 2009, 20:27, archived)
# No, a Smartwheel from Snow Crash

So it is neither funny nor original, I just remembered that Neal Stephenson had already literally reinvented the wheel and saw an excuse to render one.
(onomatopoeicneologism, Fri 15 May 2009, 20:39, archived)
# It does look rather nifty indeed !
(I helped save b3ta! Valin I changed glasses while I wasn't looking, Fri 15 May 2009, 20:41, archived)
# ohhh! I thought it was some kind of virus, or nanotech
very cool, any which way (I do like Snow Crash - am ploughing through 'The System of the World' at the moment...)
(I helped save b3ta! The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated, Fri 15 May 2009, 21:15, archived)
# *fears*
(I helped save b3ta! Joliet, Fri 15 May 2009, 20:31, archived)