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Amazon.com has listed the release date of Anathem as September 9th. This helps confirm the entry under Neal Stephenson’s bibliography on Wikipedia, that Neal’s new book will be called Anathem. Still no word on what it’s about.

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Neal has gotten a number of quotes in blogs this week:

Emacs outshines all other editing software in approximately the same way that the noonday sun does the stars. It is not just bigger and brighter; it simply makes everything else vanish.

The Museum of Submarine Telegraphy in Porthcurno, England, has a display of wrecked cables bracketed to a slab of wood. Each is labeled with its cause of failure, some of which sound dramatic, some cryptic, some both: trawler maul, spewed core, intermittent disconnection, strained core, teredo worms, crab’s nest, perished core, fish bite, even “spliced by Italians.”

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