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Geek Culture / Tinkergirl: You're in Wired Magazine

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Manic
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Posted: 9th Feb 2007 14:20
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congratulations, you're officially cool.

I'll post a photo of the snippet for you when my camera's batteries have charged up. Alternatively, if you want a hard copy, go out and buy this month's issue, you're on page 59.

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Tinkergirl
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Posted: 9th Feb 2007 14:48
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*chuckles*

Yup, my Steampunk blog, Brass Goggles mentioned in Wired magazine. The link will show you the page with what I think it was about, but unfortunately I haven't been able to find a Feb issue of Wired yet to see it in 'the flesh' so to speak.

It was funny/cool/oopsie when it first hit the subscribers over in the US - killed my bandwidth within 24hrs and I had to restructure the page! I had no idea why either until someone mentioned the Wired thing. Deeply funky though - I'm well chuffed!

I think I'm getting a link exchange with Weta too - which is just mindblowing. I never thought Brass Goggles would get so popular! Thanks, Manic.

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Peter H
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Posted: 9th Feb 2007 17:31
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Quote: "I think I'm getting a link exchange with Weta too"

w0w!

congrats!

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Wiggett
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Posted: 11th Feb 2007 07:50
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nice work tinker! looking through your blog, it's pretty cool, my name come sup as redmond playfoot! i like that, but of course my punk is cyber, it was never meant to be

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Posted: 11th Feb 2007 11:32
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tinkergirl whsmith only stock wired. try and find a fairly big store of it.

i'm keeping my eyes peeled since they roll in at work every so often.

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Tinkergirl
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Posted: 11th Feb 2007 16:28
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@lagmaster - Thanks, I'll keep a look out for it, I've got someone at work who knows a place by the train station that sold it last month, checking for me this month.

@Mr R. Playfoot - It's ok, Wiggett - once cyber was my punk, but from there I went down the slippery road to post-apocalyptic, and then steampunk. I've found my favourite now.

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Posted: 12th Feb 2007 06:56
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well i tend to be all three with my chip literate- pirate-cowboy-gunslinger personality.

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Posted: 12th Feb 2007 10:45
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Someone been reading neuromancer


Congratulations Tinkergirl. I always find steampunk more difficult for me personally to write so I stick to cyberpunk!.

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Manic
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Posted: 12th Feb 2007 14:14
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hey, here's a photo of the article, which to be honest doesn't say anything beyond what the website says. Sorry it took so long to post up, been busy the last couple of days.

I don't have a sig, live with it.

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Tinkergirl
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Posted: 12th Feb 2007 14:48
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Cooool Thanks, Manic.

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Phaelax
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Posted: 12th Feb 2007 15:13
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So that's what its all about; I like Thief 2. Not much for blogs, so I tend to ignore them.

Now you just gotta make it to the cover of Wired and you'll be the envy of everyone.

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Jeku
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Posted: 12th Feb 2007 21:39
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But too bad they didn't put the link in

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Phaelax
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Posted: 12th Feb 2007 22:38
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A link to her site in Wired might have gotten her slashdotted, or in this case "wired". But somehow saying Tinker got wired doesn't sound right.

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Tinkergirl
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Posted: 13th Feb 2007 00:04
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Phaelax - it was bad enough as it was. Killed my bandwidth over a 24hr period even without a link. Thankfully, a google search for Brass Goggles returns mostly just my site.

Still - it taught me a valuable lesson about making sure my page was backed up (and to be more careful of my bandwidth). I mean, today I narrowly avoided getting 'Digg'ed, thankfully someone broke the chain of links, so it didn't get back to me - but if it did, my page would have been vaporised. Beware!!!

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What you could do is next time it happens, change your front page to only display a link to your page in google cache.

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Posted: 13th Feb 2007 19:22
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Nice, I like that name generator. "Seor Nathaniel Prescott" -so uber



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indi
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Posted: 17th Feb 2007 08:34
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nice work matey, i think wired is pretty cool for a read when i get the chance.

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