<article>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#article10_01_04_1623233</id>
	<title>OMNI Magazine Remembered</title>
	<author>CmdrTaco</author>
	<datestamp>1262625600000</datestamp>
	<htmltext>An anonymous reader noted that Slate is doing a bit of a <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2239740/">retrospective on OMNI</a>.  If you're anything like me, reading it was a treat.  At home I suffered through Popular Mechanics, but OMNI was what I wished I had.   There's many interesting things in the article, like the fact that OMNI is the place where William Gibson first coined the term "Cyberspace."</htmltext>
<tokenext>An anonymous reader noted that Slate is doing a bit of a retrospective on OMNI .
If you 're anything like me , reading it was a treat .
At home I suffered through Popular Mechanics , but OMNI was what I wished I had .
There 's many interesting things in the article , like the fact that OMNI is the place where William Gibson first coined the term " Cyberspace .
"</tokentext>
<sentencetext>An anonymous reader noted that Slate is doing a bit of a retrospective on OMNI.
If you're anything like me, reading it was a treat.
At home I suffered through Popular Mechanics, but OMNI was what I wished I had.
There's many interesting things in the article, like the fact that OMNI is the place where William Gibson first coined the term "Cyberspace.
"</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30645378</id>
	<title>Re:It was OK</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1262596740000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>yep.  'Course Galaxy is the one that I miss...</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>yep .
'Course Galaxy is the one that I miss.. .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>yep.
'Course Galaxy is the one that I miss...</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30643564</id>
	<title>OMNI was ...</title>
	<author>notpaul</author>
	<datestamp>1262632140000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Insightful</modclass>
	<modscore>2</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>OMNI rocked in all the ways that matter.</p><p>As mentioned, the sci-fi, the science, the palpable sensuality of it's envisioned future<nobr> <wbr></nobr>... it was the death of OMNI which led me to seek solace in the emergent WIRED. For a time, it was a suitable heir.</p><p>And the death of WIRED (just try and argue that it ain't) has led me<nobr> <wbr></nobr>... nowhere.</p><p>I'd gladly pay $36 a year for a worthy successor to either one.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>OMNI rocked in all the ways that matter.As mentioned , the sci-fi , the science , the palpable sensuality of it 's envisioned future ... it was the death of OMNI which led me to seek solace in the emergent WIRED .
For a time , it was a suitable heir.And the death of WIRED ( just try and argue that it ai n't ) has led me ... nowhere.I 'd gladly pay $ 36 a year for a worthy successor to either one .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>OMNI rocked in all the ways that matter.As mentioned, the sci-fi, the science, the palpable sensuality of it's envisioned future ... it was the death of OMNI which led me to seek solace in the emergent WIRED.
For a time, it was a suitable heir.And the death of WIRED (just try and argue that it ain't) has led me ... nowhere.I'd gladly pay $36 a year for a worthy successor to either one.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30643798</id>
	<title>The explanation is simple</title>
	<author>DerekLyons</author>
	<datestamp>1262633040000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Insightful</modclass>
	<modscore>2</modscore>
	<htmltext><p><i>Omni</i> died for one simple and oft overlooked reason - it stayed in stasis from the day of it's birth.  Really, pick up practically any issue from the late 1980's and compare it to any issue from the early years - and it's exactly the same, stylistically, thematically, and in content.  The world moved on and <i>Omni</i> didn't.<br>
&nbsp; <br>Hence, it's readership and ad revenue declined steadily across the 80's, leading to the now infamous 'ad-on-the-cover'.  In the background, but increasingly visible in the contents, the editors frantically tried to update their material without actually changing their editorial philosophy.  By the time it died, it was already a relic propped up only by the unwillingness of Guccione to either change the status quo or to disconnect the feeding tube.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Omni died for one simple and oft overlooked reason - it stayed in stasis from the day of it 's birth .
Really , pick up practically any issue from the late 1980 's and compare it to any issue from the early years - and it 's exactly the same , stylistically , thematically , and in content .
The world moved on and Omni did n't .
  Hence , it 's readership and ad revenue declined steadily across the 80 's , leading to the now infamous 'ad-on-the-cover' .
In the background , but increasingly visible in the contents , the editors frantically tried to update their material without actually changing their editorial philosophy .
By the time it died , it was already a relic propped up only by the unwillingness of Guccione to either change the status quo or to disconnect the feeding tube .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Omni died for one simple and oft overlooked reason - it stayed in stasis from the day of it's birth.
Really, pick up practically any issue from the late 1980's and compare it to any issue from the early years - and it's exactly the same, stylistically, thematically, and in content.
The world moved on and Omni didn't.
  Hence, it's readership and ad revenue declined steadily across the 80's, leading to the now infamous 'ad-on-the-cover'.
In the background, but increasingly visible in the contents, the editors frantically tried to update their material without actually changing their editorial philosophy.
By the time it died, it was already a relic propped up only by the unwillingness of Guccione to either change the status quo or to disconnect the feeding tube.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30644350</id>
	<title>OMNI Paper Plane!</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1262635560000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Does anyone know where I can get the plans for that paper airplane from around maybe 1983? That sucker flew a good 200ft at a pop. I'd love to make another one to show off to skeptics.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Does anyone know where I can get the plans for that paper airplane from around maybe 1983 ?
That sucker flew a good 200ft at a pop .
I 'd love to make another one to show off to skeptics .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Does anyone know where I can get the plans for that paper airplane from around maybe 1983?
That sucker flew a good 200ft at a pop.
I'd love to make another one to show off to skeptics.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30644454</id>
	<title>Great until they were taken over by UFOlogists</title>
	<author>wwphx</author>
	<datestamp>1262636040000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>I loved the magazine, then they became a magazine for the supernatural and other crap that I could care less about.<br> <br>

It was a nice run for the first year or so, then I stopped buying it.</htmltext>
<tokenext>I loved the magazine , then they became a magazine for the supernatural and other crap that I could care less about .
It was a nice run for the first year or so , then I stopped buying it .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I loved the magazine, then they became a magazine for the supernatural and other crap that I could care less about.
It was a nice run for the first year or so, then I stopped buying it.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30643320</id>
	<title>Good times!</title>
	<author>dwiget001</author>
	<datestamp>1262631060000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>For years, I kept the very first edition of OMNI magazine safe in my room at my father's house.</p><p>Trips to work in Yellowstone, five years in the Navy and my travels since, last time I checked, the magazine was no longer in the bedroom any more as of about 10 years ago. Seems dad threw it out with a few other things he considered "clutter". Oh well.<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:/</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>For years , I kept the very first edition of OMNI magazine safe in my room at my father 's house.Trips to work in Yellowstone , five years in the Navy and my travels since , last time I checked , the magazine was no longer in the bedroom any more as of about 10 years ago .
Seems dad threw it out with a few other things he considered " clutter " .
Oh well .
: /</tokentext>
<sentencetext>For years, I kept the very first edition of OMNI magazine safe in my room at my father's house.Trips to work in Yellowstone, five years in the Navy and my travels since, last time I checked, the magazine was no longer in the bedroom any more as of about 10 years ago.
Seems dad threw it out with a few other things he considered "clutter".
Oh well.
:/</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30644874</id>
	<title>Re:Hot Alien Chicks</title>
	<author>Zurk</author>
	<datestamp>1262638020000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>i 3'd omni. the scifi stories were awesome (like gravity's angel about the SSC) and i still keep a bunch of issues lying around.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>i 3 'd omni .
the scifi stories were awesome ( like gravity 's angel about the SSC ) and i still keep a bunch of issues lying around .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>i 3'd omni.
the scifi stories were awesome (like gravity's angel about the SSC) and i still keep a bunch of issues lying around.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30645756</id>
	<title>It started out great...</title>
	<author>Dammital</author>
	<datestamp>1262597940000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>... glossy, slick, intelligent in the right places, readable from cover to cover.  Orson Scott Card's <i>A Thousand Deaths</i> was my first introduction to him, and that story still creeps me out.
When Omni's staff inexplicably began to promote those silly UFO and parapsychology pieces, I allowed my subscription to lapse.</htmltext>
<tokenext>... glossy , slick , intelligent in the right places , readable from cover to cover .
Orson Scott Card 's A Thousand Deaths was my first introduction to him , and that story still creeps me out .
When Omni 's staff inexplicably began to promote those silly UFO and parapsychology pieces , I allowed my subscription to lapse .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>... glossy, slick, intelligent in the right places, readable from cover to cover.
Orson Scott Card's A Thousand Deaths was my first introduction to him, and that story still creeps me out.
When Omni's staff inexplicably began to promote those silly UFO and parapsychology pieces, I allowed my subscription to lapse.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30644850</id>
	<title>Re:Cyberspace was a pretty cool term,</title>
	<author>HTH NE1</author>
	<datestamp>1262637960000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>He has his own coiner's remorse over it. See his cameo appearance in the miniseries Wild Palms, playing himself:</p><p><b>Paige Katz:</b> This is William Gibson, Harry.<br><b>Harry Wyckoff:</b> Oh, yeah... Neuromancer, right?<br><b>Paige Katz:</b> He invented the word "cyberspace".<br><b>William Gibson:</b> And they'll never let me forget it.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>He has his own coiner 's remorse over it .
See his cameo appearance in the miniseries Wild Palms , playing himself : Paige Katz : This is William Gibson , Harry.Harry Wyckoff : Oh , yeah... Neuromancer , right ? Paige Katz : He invented the word " cyberspace " .William Gibson : And they 'll never let me forget it .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>He has his own coiner's remorse over it.
See his cameo appearance in the miniseries Wild Palms, playing himself:Paige Katz: This is William Gibson, Harry.Harry Wyckoff: Oh, yeah... Neuromancer, right?Paige Katz: He invented the word "cyberspace".William Gibson: And they'll never let me forget it.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30643052</id>
	<title>It was OK</title>
	<author>dreamchaser</author>
	<datestamp>1262629740000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Informativ</modclass>
	<modscore>3</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>It was more on an entertainment magazine than a science magazine really.  I always prefered to get my Sci Fi straight up via publications like Analog, but I found Omni to be entertaining often enough in my youth.  It really was more Sci Fi than a true science mag though.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>It was more on an entertainment magazine than a science magazine really .
I always prefered to get my Sci Fi straight up via publications like Analog , but I found Omni to be entertaining often enough in my youth .
It really was more Sci Fi than a true science mag though .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>It was more on an entertainment magazine than a science magazine really.
I always prefered to get my Sci Fi straight up via publications like Analog, but I found Omni to be entertaining often enough in my youth.
It really was more Sci Fi than a true science mag though.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30643156</id>
	<title>Sounds like...</title>
	<author>fiannaFailMan</author>
	<datestamp>1262630220000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>I once saw a new magazine on the news stand called "The world in Focus" billing itself as a whole newsstand of features for &pound;1.75. It later became Focus, which became BBC Focus, which I think is still running.  Was a pretty good read last time I saw it in the UK. There was a time when it had an editor who had a good sense of humour and the articles were written in a light-hearted way.  For example there was one about what Europe would have looked like had Napoleon stopped trying to annex every bit of land that touched his, referred to him as 'Boney' all the way through the article.</p><p>Print is dead?  Not quite yet. There's something about the experience of a nice glossy magazine with an attractive magazine layout, instantly accessible and not so big that you need a search engine.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>I once saw a new magazine on the news stand called " The world in Focus " billing itself as a whole newsstand of features for   1.75 .
It later became Focus , which became BBC Focus , which I think is still running .
Was a pretty good read last time I saw it in the UK .
There was a time when it had an editor who had a good sense of humour and the articles were written in a light-hearted way .
For example there was one about what Europe would have looked like had Napoleon stopped trying to annex every bit of land that touched his , referred to him as 'Boney ' all the way through the article.Print is dead ?
Not quite yet .
There 's something about the experience of a nice glossy magazine with an attractive magazine layout , instantly accessible and not so big that you need a search engine .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I once saw a new magazine on the news stand called "The world in Focus" billing itself as a whole newsstand of features for £1.75.
It later became Focus, which became BBC Focus, which I think is still running.
Was a pretty good read last time I saw it in the UK.
There was a time when it had an editor who had a good sense of humour and the articles were written in a light-hearted way.
For example there was one about what Europe would have looked like had Napoleon stopped trying to annex every bit of land that touched his, referred to him as 'Boney' all the way through the article.Print is dead?
Not quite yet.
There's something about the experience of a nice glossy magazine with an attractive magazine layout, instantly accessible and not so big that you need a search engine.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30643042</id>
	<title>by 2010..</title>
	<author>OrangeTide</author>
	<datestamp>1262629740000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p><div class="quote"><p>(by 2010, robots will--yes!--"clean the rug, iron the clothes, and shovel the snow.")</p></div><p>Roomba is there. and they have these dryer cabinets that dry your shirts on the hanging on a rack so you don't have to iron them. and global warming will mean no more shoveling of snow.</p></div>
	</htmltext>
<tokenext>( by 2010 , robots will--yes ! -- " clean the rug , iron the clothes , and shovel the snow .
" ) Roomba is there .
and they have these dryer cabinets that dry your shirts on the hanging on a rack so you do n't have to iron them .
and global warming will mean no more shoveling of snow .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>(by 2010, robots will--yes!--"clean the rug, iron the clothes, and shovel the snow.
")Roomba is there.
and they have these dryer cabinets that dry your shirts on the hanging on a rack so you don't have to iron them.
and global warming will mean no more shoveling of snow.
	</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30644826</id>
	<title>Look, more 80s nostalgia.</title>
	<author>saltire sable</author>
	<datestamp>1262637840000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>I definitely have some fond memories of looking through my dad's stacks of OMNI. Of course, I also liked looking through his stacks of Penthouse...</p><p>OMNI had a lot of neat-o stuff, like some pretty awesome paper airplane designs. It was also the first place I saw a stereogram, which at the time was just an array of black and white dots, but started showing up everywhere a few years later, in colour, as those "Magic Eye" pictures.</p><p>Didn't care too much for all the supernatural stuff, but I always liked that montage scene in the middle of Ghostbusters where the dudes start showing up on magazine covers, and an OMNI cover goes by with pictures of their proton packs and ghost traps.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>I definitely have some fond memories of looking through my dad 's stacks of OMNI .
Of course , I also liked looking through his stacks of Penthouse...OMNI had a lot of neat-o stuff , like some pretty awesome paper airplane designs .
It was also the first place I saw a stereogram , which at the time was just an array of black and white dots , but started showing up everywhere a few years later , in colour , as those " Magic Eye " pictures.Did n't care too much for all the supernatural stuff , but I always liked that montage scene in the middle of Ghostbusters where the dudes start showing up on magazine covers , and an OMNI cover goes by with pictures of their proton packs and ghost traps .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I definitely have some fond memories of looking through my dad's stacks of OMNI.
Of course, I also liked looking through his stacks of Penthouse...OMNI had a lot of neat-o stuff, like some pretty awesome paper airplane designs.
It was also the first place I saw a stereogram, which at the time was just an array of black and white dots, but started showing up everywhere a few years later, in colour, as those "Magic Eye" pictures.Didn't care too much for all the supernatural stuff, but I always liked that montage scene in the middle of Ghostbusters where the dudes start showing up on magazine covers, and an OMNI cover goes by with pictures of their proton packs and ghost traps.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30643872</id>
	<title>SHIt?!</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1262633280000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Offtopic</modclass>
	<modscore>-1</modscore>
	<htmltext>OF AMERICA irc</htmltext>
<tokenext>OF AMERICA irc</tokentext>
<sentencetext>OF AMERICA irc</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30644462</id>
	<title>..and its founder...</title>
	<author>XB-70</author>
	<datestamp>1262636100000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Interestin</modclass>
	<modscore>4</modscore>
	<htmltext>I was hired as part of the launch of Omni magazine and worked with Bob Guccione for a couple of days. He struck me as a complete greaseball opportunist [not that that's a bad thing - Ed.].

<p>Later that year, I was at a trade show in Dallas. His other publication, Penthouse was present as well as his competitor - Playboy.
</p><p>The contrast between the two companies could not have been more different. The Playboy booth was marginally tasteful and people were laughing and enjoying themselves with the pretty 'girls-next-door' - OK, 'fantasy-girls-next-door'.
</p><p>The Penthouse booth was full of wary, pouting sluts who paced from side-to-side as they were beeing leered at by the mostly male passers-by. It looked more like a zoo enclosure than a booth.
</p><p>Omni was somewhat similar in that it wrote in a style that was condescending and often trite. Here or there, I enjoyed an article, but most of it was so fanciful as to be disengenuous.
</p><p>In short, I don't miss it.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>I was hired as part of the launch of Omni magazine and worked with Bob Guccione for a couple of days .
He struck me as a complete greaseball opportunist [ not that that 's a bad thing - Ed. ] .
Later that year , I was at a trade show in Dallas .
His other publication , Penthouse was present as well as his competitor - Playboy .
The contrast between the two companies could not have been more different .
The Playboy booth was marginally tasteful and people were laughing and enjoying themselves with the pretty 'girls-next-door ' - OK , 'fantasy-girls-next-door' .
The Penthouse booth was full of wary , pouting sluts who paced from side-to-side as they were beeing leered at by the mostly male passers-by .
It looked more like a zoo enclosure than a booth .
Omni was somewhat similar in that it wrote in a style that was condescending and often trite .
Here or there , I enjoyed an article , but most of it was so fanciful as to be disengenuous .
In short , I do n't miss it .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I was hired as part of the launch of Omni magazine and worked with Bob Guccione for a couple of days.
He struck me as a complete greaseball opportunist [not that that's a bad thing - Ed.].
Later that year, I was at a trade show in Dallas.
His other publication, Penthouse was present as well as his competitor - Playboy.
The contrast between the two companies could not have been more different.
The Playboy booth was marginally tasteful and people were laughing and enjoying themselves with the pretty 'girls-next-door' - OK, 'fantasy-girls-next-door'.
The Penthouse booth was full of wary, pouting sluts who paced from side-to-side as they were beeing leered at by the mostly male passers-by.
It looked more like a zoo enclosure than a booth.
Omni was somewhat similar in that it wrote in a style that was condescending and often trite.
Here or there, I enjoyed an article, but most of it was so fanciful as to be disengenuous.
In short, I don't miss it.</sentencetext>
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	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30643376</id>
	<title>Re:I would really like to find copies of the</title>
	<author>Nerdfest</author>
	<datestamp>1262631300000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>I think that might have been the "Last Word" section. I still remember an article saying "I've always been afraid of clowns. I wonder if it has something to do with a clown killing my father". Did Jack Handy rip that off for SNL's "Deep Thoughts", or did he write for Omni as well?</htmltext>
<tokenext>I think that might have been the " Last Word " section .
I still remember an article saying " I 've always been afraid of clowns .
I wonder if it has something to do with a clown killing my father " .
Did Jack Handy rip that off for SNL 's " Deep Thoughts " , or did he write for Omni as well ?</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I think that might have been the "Last Word" section.
I still remember an article saying "I've always been afraid of clowns.
I wonder if it has something to do with a clown killing my father".
Did Jack Handy rip that off for SNL's "Deep Thoughts", or did he write for Omni as well?</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30644938</id>
	<title>Re:Hot Alien Chicks</title>
	<author>inicom</author>
	<datestamp>1262638320000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>I was a early subscriber to OMNI (I still have the first few issues somewhere in storage). I loved it, and there were many things in it the encouraged me in science and was more accessible than Scientific American (which I subscribed to concurrently).  It also led me on all sorts of incredible tangents for intellectual exploration.  Basically, in many ways for me it was replaced by the Internet.</p><p>I would call Mondo 2000 the better example (versus Heavy Metal) of a more frivolous version of OMNI - tackling similar themes but with reckless and entertaining abandon.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>I was a early subscriber to OMNI ( I still have the first few issues somewhere in storage ) .
I loved it , and there were many things in it the encouraged me in science and was more accessible than Scientific American ( which I subscribed to concurrently ) .
It also led me on all sorts of incredible tangents for intellectual exploration .
Basically , in many ways for me it was replaced by the Internet.I would call Mondo 2000 the better example ( versus Heavy Metal ) of a more frivolous version of OMNI - tackling similar themes but with reckless and entertaining abandon .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I was a early subscriber to OMNI (I still have the first few issues somewhere in storage).
I loved it, and there were many things in it the encouraged me in science and was more accessible than Scientific American (which I subscribed to concurrently).
It also led me on all sorts of incredible tangents for intellectual exploration.
Basically, in many ways for me it was replaced by the Internet.I would call Mondo 2000 the better example (versus Heavy Metal) of a more frivolous version of OMNI - tackling similar themes but with reckless and entertaining abandon.</sentencetext>
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	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30643352</id>
	<title>Get Ready Because Here I Come!</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1262631180000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Offtopic</modclass>
	<modscore>-1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>The process is called "search engine optimization" and is commonly referred to as SEO. It's killing the Internet if it hasn't already. I've complained about it before but it's too late to do anything about it except moan more.</p><p>Essentially the process involves tricking Google or Bing or Yahoo into ranking your particular Web site higher than the competition by reverse-engineering the tricks used by Google, et al to rank sites in the first place. The problem with the technique is that it ruins the search experience for users and also requires the search engine folks to constantly work on countermeasures to minimize the impact of SEO techniques. SEO techniques then adapt to the changes, and then begins round two, then three, etc.</p><p>This behind-the-scenes war is why there is no one major search-optimization trick or large consulting firm doing this. It's all underground and consists of thousands of individual specialists who consult for just a few companies and chat among themselves in the background. Nothing can get too big--such as a subscription service-- because Google and Microsoft will simply subscribe and take action immediately. As it now stands there is a long enough lag time between the implementation of an SEO trick and the countermeasure for a company or individual to get a lot of attention and make extra money. The result is kind of an arms race in the world of search.</p><p>The problem, as I see it, is the horrid results of certain searches ruining the enduser experience. Try and find the best cell phone deal on the Internet. Do it by using a search engine. Every hit is some commercial site trying to sell you something. Almost every time you ask for certain advice the pages get clogged with things for sale. What if I don't want to buy anything and just want to find out about something or know the facts? Impossible. The results hardly ever link to a PC Magazine comparative review or any objective analysis. Just faux reviews and fake objectivity leading you to some product for sale.</p><p>All sorts of tricks are used too. My favorite is the site that pretends to review the top three, four or five products. It's usually designed to sell one of the products; we'll call it product B. The reviews tend to show that only two of the products in category A and B are actually any good. C and D are just terrible. Seems objective so far, no? So the reviewer then goes into great detail and the differences between A and B are dissected. They are both close in quality and usefulness. But wait, A is way too expensive and B despite all its minor flaws is so much the better deal that you should buy B. Click here to buy B.</p><p>Before we are done with the Internet this is the only sort of site that will exist. And, oh, by the way, product B is a piece of crap, okay?</p><p>People who just have a few trusted sources that they can count on (such as PC Magazine) are better off using those than doing blind searches when it comes to comparative analysis. But I can assure you that most people will use Google, Bing or Yahoo before anything else.</p><p>You can tell how well or poorly the search engine countermeasures are doing when you search for something, and you click on a link and the link leads to another search engine with the same term auto-entry in its search engine. This trick kills me. You are looking for something innocuous such as "hub cap" and the result you get is one of those parker pages that is a faux search engine with a bunch of ads somehow related to hub caps and often a Google Adsense ad. How can this even happen?</p><p>My advice to Web site managers, when you see this sort of result, is to contact THAT site and hire the consultant doing SEO for it. This sort of thing is no accident.</p><p>There's a sudden preoccupation with SEO. Perhaps it's only an epidemic in Silicon Valley, but you can't even do a blog post without everyone being worried about the SEO implicatons. "No, use a different word!" "Misspelling helps get attention!"</p><p>I'm not sure where this is all headed, but it's kind of like the Open</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>The process is called " search engine optimization " and is commonly referred to as SEO .
It 's killing the Internet if it has n't already .
I 've complained about it before but it 's too late to do anything about it except moan more.Essentially the process involves tricking Google or Bing or Yahoo into ranking your particular Web site higher than the competition by reverse-engineering the tricks used by Google , et al to rank sites in the first place .
The problem with the technique is that it ruins the search experience for users and also requires the search engine folks to constantly work on countermeasures to minimize the impact of SEO techniques .
SEO techniques then adapt to the changes , and then begins round two , then three , etc.This behind-the-scenes war is why there is no one major search-optimization trick or large consulting firm doing this .
It 's all underground and consists of thousands of individual specialists who consult for just a few companies and chat among themselves in the background .
Nothing can get too big--such as a subscription service-- because Google and Microsoft will simply subscribe and take action immediately .
As it now stands there is a long enough lag time between the implementation of an SEO trick and the countermeasure for a company or individual to get a lot of attention and make extra money .
The result is kind of an arms race in the world of search.The problem , as I see it , is the horrid results of certain searches ruining the enduser experience .
Try and find the best cell phone deal on the Internet .
Do it by using a search engine .
Every hit is some commercial site trying to sell you something .
Almost every time you ask for certain advice the pages get clogged with things for sale .
What if I do n't want to buy anything and just want to find out about something or know the facts ?
Impossible. The results hardly ever link to a PC Magazine comparative review or any objective analysis .
Just faux reviews and fake objectivity leading you to some product for sale.All sorts of tricks are used too .
My favorite is the site that pretends to review the top three , four or five products .
It 's usually designed to sell one of the products ; we 'll call it product B. The reviews tend to show that only two of the products in category A and B are actually any good .
C and D are just terrible .
Seems objective so far , no ?
So the reviewer then goes into great detail and the differences between A and B are dissected .
They are both close in quality and usefulness .
But wait , A is way too expensive and B despite all its minor flaws is so much the better deal that you should buy B. Click here to buy B.Before we are done with the Internet this is the only sort of site that will exist .
And , oh , by the way , product B is a piece of crap , okay ? People who just have a few trusted sources that they can count on ( such as PC Magazine ) are better off using those than doing blind searches when it comes to comparative analysis .
But I can assure you that most people will use Google , Bing or Yahoo before anything else.You can tell how well or poorly the search engine countermeasures are doing when you search for something , and you click on a link and the link leads to another search engine with the same term auto-entry in its search engine .
This trick kills me .
You are looking for something innocuous such as " hub cap " and the result you get is one of those parker pages that is a faux search engine with a bunch of ads somehow related to hub caps and often a Google Adsense ad .
How can this even happen ? My advice to Web site managers , when you see this sort of result , is to contact THAT site and hire the consultant doing SEO for it .
This sort of thing is no accident.There 's a sudden preoccupation with SEO .
Perhaps it 's only an epidemic in Silicon Valley , but you ca n't even do a blog post without everyone being worried about the SEO implicatons .
" No , use a different word !
" " Misspelling helps get attention !
" I 'm not sure where this is all headed , but it 's kind of like the Open</tokentext>
<sentencetext>The process is called "search engine optimization" and is commonly referred to as SEO.
It's killing the Internet if it hasn't already.
I've complained about it before but it's too late to do anything about it except moan more.Essentially the process involves tricking Google or Bing or Yahoo into ranking your particular Web site higher than the competition by reverse-engineering the tricks used by Google, et al to rank sites in the first place.
The problem with the technique is that it ruins the search experience for users and also requires the search engine folks to constantly work on countermeasures to minimize the impact of SEO techniques.
SEO techniques then adapt to the changes, and then begins round two, then three, etc.This behind-the-scenes war is why there is no one major search-optimization trick or large consulting firm doing this.
It's all underground and consists of thousands of individual specialists who consult for just a few companies and chat among themselves in the background.
Nothing can get too big--such as a subscription service-- because Google and Microsoft will simply subscribe and take action immediately.
As it now stands there is a long enough lag time between the implementation of an SEO trick and the countermeasure for a company or individual to get a lot of attention and make extra money.
The result is kind of an arms race in the world of search.The problem, as I see it, is the horrid results of certain searches ruining the enduser experience.
Try and find the best cell phone deal on the Internet.
Do it by using a search engine.
Every hit is some commercial site trying to sell you something.
Almost every time you ask for certain advice the pages get clogged with things for sale.
What if I don't want to buy anything and just want to find out about something or know the facts?
Impossible. The results hardly ever link to a PC Magazine comparative review or any objective analysis.
Just faux reviews and fake objectivity leading you to some product for sale.All sorts of tricks are used too.
My favorite is the site that pretends to review the top three, four or five products.
It's usually designed to sell one of the products; we'll call it product B. The reviews tend to show that only two of the products in category A and B are actually any good.
C and D are just terrible.
Seems objective so far, no?
So the reviewer then goes into great detail and the differences between A and B are dissected.
They are both close in quality and usefulness.
But wait, A is way too expensive and B despite all its minor flaws is so much the better deal that you should buy B. Click here to buy B.Before we are done with the Internet this is the only sort of site that will exist.
And, oh, by the way, product B is a piece of crap, okay?People who just have a few trusted sources that they can count on (such as PC Magazine) are better off using those than doing blind searches when it comes to comparative analysis.
But I can assure you that most people will use Google, Bing or Yahoo before anything else.You can tell how well or poorly the search engine countermeasures are doing when you search for something, and you click on a link and the link leads to another search engine with the same term auto-entry in its search engine.
This trick kills me.
You are looking for something innocuous such as "hub cap" and the result you get is one of those parker pages that is a faux search engine with a bunch of ads somehow related to hub caps and often a Google Adsense ad.
How can this even happen?My advice to Web site managers, when you see this sort of result, is to contact THAT site and hire the consultant doing SEO for it.
This sort of thing is no accident.There's a sudden preoccupation with SEO.
Perhaps it's only an epidemic in Silicon Valley, but you can't even do a blog post without everyone being worried about the SEO implicatons.
"No, use a different word!
" "Misspelling helps get attention!
"I'm not sure where this is all headed, but it's kind of like the Open</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30643528</id>
	<title>are omni issues a collectors item then?</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1262632020000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext>i wonder if i could sell my slightly worn copy of omni from the 80's. the one where the stephen king short story firestarter was first published?</htmltext>
<tokenext>i wonder if i could sell my slightly worn copy of omni from the 80 's .
the one where the stephen king short story firestarter was first published ?</tokentext>
<sentencetext>i wonder if i could sell my slightly worn copy of omni from the 80's.
the one where the stephen king short story firestarter was first published?</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30644166</id>
	<title>Introduced me to Howard Waldrop</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1262634660000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>I was a snot-nosed little kid when I first picked up Omni and read "Flying Saucer Rock And Roll".  I had learned about the Great East Coast Blackout from reruns of Bewitched and other shows.  I had learned about doo-wop music because that's what records my parents had.  Howard did a mash up that blew my little elementary school mind and I added Omni to the pile of comics I'd buy every month.  I remember how SHOCKED I was when I finally got into porn and discovered that Omni and Penthouse had the same publisher and very similar designs.  Continuum was essentially the Vietnam Veteran's Advisor for geeks!</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>I was a snot-nosed little kid when I first picked up Omni and read " Flying Saucer Rock And Roll " .
I had learned about the Great East Coast Blackout from reruns of Bewitched and other shows .
I had learned about doo-wop music because that 's what records my parents had .
Howard did a mash up that blew my little elementary school mind and I added Omni to the pile of comics I 'd buy every month .
I remember how SHOCKED I was when I finally got into porn and discovered that Omni and Penthouse had the same publisher and very similar designs .
Continuum was essentially the Vietnam Veteran 's Advisor for geeks !</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I was a snot-nosed little kid when I first picked up Omni and read "Flying Saucer Rock And Roll".
I had learned about the Great East Coast Blackout from reruns of Bewitched and other shows.
I had learned about doo-wop music because that's what records my parents had.
Howard did a mash up that blew my little elementary school mind and I added Omni to the pile of comics I'd buy every month.
I remember how SHOCKED I was when I finally got into porn and discovered that Omni and Penthouse had the same publisher and very similar designs.
Continuum was essentially the Vietnam Veteran's Advisor for geeks!</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30643268</id>
	<title>Omni would be better off forgotten</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1262630820000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Troll</modclass>
	<modscore>-1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Glossy magazine full of fluff. Bleah.</p><p>Scientific American got more attention in my childhood.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Glossy magazine full of fluff .
Bleah.Scientific American got more attention in my childhood .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Glossy magazine full of fluff.
Bleah.Scientific American got more attention in my childhood.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30653028</id>
	<title>Re:It was OK</title>
	<author>EricTheO</author>
	<datestamp>1262689980000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p><div class="quote"><p>It was more on an entertainment magazine than a science magazine really.  I always prefered to get my Sci Fi straight up via publications like Analog, but I found Omni to be entertaining often enough in my youth.  It really was more Sci Fi than a true science mag though.</p></div><p>I would say that Omni was more of a Futurist magazine with a good dose of Sci-Fi writing as well. The format made it one of the best glossy mags of it's time as far as style. I also subscribed to Popular Science and Popular Mechanics, I left the reading of Popular Electronics to one of my friends.</p></div>
	</htmltext>
<tokenext>It was more on an entertainment magazine than a science magazine really .
I always prefered to get my Sci Fi straight up via publications like Analog , but I found Omni to be entertaining often enough in my youth .
It really was more Sci Fi than a true science mag though.I would say that Omni was more of a Futurist magazine with a good dose of Sci-Fi writing as well .
The format made it one of the best glossy mags of it 's time as far as style .
I also subscribed to Popular Science and Popular Mechanics , I left the reading of Popular Electronics to one of my friends .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>It was more on an entertainment magazine than a science magazine really.
I always prefered to get my Sci Fi straight up via publications like Analog, but I found Omni to be entertaining often enough in my youth.
It really was more Sci Fi than a true science mag though.I would say that Omni was more of a Futurist magazine with a good dose of Sci-Fi writing as well.
The format made it one of the best glossy mags of it's time as far as style.
I also subscribed to Popular Science and Popular Mechanics, I left the reading of Popular Electronics to one of my friends.
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30644034</id>
	<title>Bruce Sterling coined the term Cyberspace</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1262634060000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>In Mirrorshades.<br>I did read the William Gibson short stories in Omni though.<br>Ellen Datlow Rocked as a editor</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>In Mirrorshades.I did read the William Gibson short stories in Omni though.Ellen Datlow Rocked as a editor</tokentext>
<sentencetext>In Mirrorshades.I did read the William Gibson short stories in Omni though.Ellen Datlow Rocked as a editor</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30649622</id>
	<title>I too love OMNI... but I was dumb</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1262615040000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>It was great for a naive teenage geek looking for the new and weird, but looking back at some old issues I still have it's way too new age and filled with crap I really don't believe in anymore.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>It was great for a naive teenage geek looking for the new and weird , but looking back at some old issues I still have it 's way too new age and filled with crap I really do n't believe in anymore .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>It was great for a naive teenage geek looking for the new and weird, but looking back at some old issues I still have it's way too new age and filled with crap I really don't believe in anymore.</sentencetext>
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	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30643812</id>
	<title>Re:I would really like to find copies of the</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1262633040000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext>I still have all my copies OMNI all classics. I go through them every once in a while just to see how accurate they were, and great artwork as well.</htmltext>
<tokenext>I still have all my copies OMNI all classics .
I go through them every once in a while just to see how accurate they were , and great artwork as well .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I still have all my copies OMNI all classics.
I go through them every once in a while just to see how accurate they were, and great artwork as well.</sentencetext>
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	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30644592</id>
	<title>Omni? We hardly knew ye!</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1262636580000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>God, how I miss those slick, pheremone-impregnated [citation needed] pages. The first issue I ever bought was the one with "Johnny Mnemonic" in it.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>God , how I miss those slick , pheremone-impregnated [ citation needed ] pages .
The first issue I ever bought was the one with " Johnny Mnemonic " in it .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>God, how I miss those slick, pheremone-impregnated [citation needed] pages.
The first issue I ever bought was the one with "Johnny Mnemonic" in it.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30646464</id>
	<title>Went sour in the end</title>
	<author>Slugster</author>
	<datestamp>1262600640000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>I loved it in the early- and middle-years of its publication; there certainly wasn't anything else like it. I was young so perhaps it would not strike me the same now.<br> <br>

Later towards its death, it veered way off into "bigfoot and UFO hunting" stuff. If you had been reading it all along, you could tell the end was near. <br>
~</htmltext>
<tokenext>I loved it in the early- and middle-years of its publication ; there certainly was n't anything else like it .
I was young so perhaps it would not strike me the same now .
Later towards its death , it veered way off into " bigfoot and UFO hunting " stuff .
If you had been reading it all along , you could tell the end was near .
~</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I loved it in the early- and middle-years of its publication; there certainly wasn't anything else like it.
I was young so perhaps it would not strike me the same now.
Later towards its death, it veered way off into "bigfoot and UFO hunting" stuff.
If you had been reading it all along, you could tell the end was near.
~</sentencetext>
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	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30644474</id>
	<title>OMNI mag was great</title>
	<author>ZonkerWilliam</author>
	<datestamp>1262636160000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>It was part of the era of when scientists were still able to dream big! I remember an article from Dr. Forward (God bless him and may he rest in peace) using condensed matter to nullify gravity, seriously excellent article.</htmltext>
<tokenext>It was part of the era of when scientists were still able to dream big !
I remember an article from Dr. Forward ( God bless him and may he rest in peace ) using condensed matter to nullify gravity , seriously excellent article .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>It was part of the era of when scientists were still able to dream big!
I remember an article from Dr. Forward (God bless him and may he rest in peace) using condensed matter to nullify gravity, seriously excellent article.</sentencetext>
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	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30643092</id>
	<title>Died with Woowoo BS but...</title>
	<author>RyuuzakiTetsuya</author>
	<datestamp>1262629920000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Funny</modclass>
	<modscore>4</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>It lived with a solid core of futurism.  Futurism is kind of dead now, now that we're using phones to surf the web and cops are using sonic weapons against crowds.  The future's here and Omni guessed a lot of it right in the 70's and 80's.</p><p>Only if Letters to Penthouse could be this accurate.  BRB.  Pizza delivery girl is here.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>It lived with a solid core of futurism .
Futurism is kind of dead now , now that we 're using phones to surf the web and cops are using sonic weapons against crowds .
The future 's here and Omni guessed a lot of it right in the 70 's and 80 's.Only if Letters to Penthouse could be this accurate .
BRB. Pizza delivery girl is here .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>It lived with a solid core of futurism.
Futurism is kind of dead now, now that we're using phones to surf the web and cops are using sonic weapons against crowds.
The future's here and Omni guessed a lot of it right in the 70's and 80's.Only if Letters to Penthouse could be this accurate.
BRB.  Pizza delivery girl is here.</sentencetext>
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	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30643526</id>
	<title>Re:by 2010..</title>
	<author>JWSmythe</author>
	<datestamp>1262632020000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Funny</modclass>
	<modscore>2</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>
&nbsp; &nbsp; Actually, there's a tech way to handle driveway snow.  Google for <a href="http://www.google.com/#hl=en&amp;q=driveway+snowmelt+system" title="google.com">"driveway snowmelt system"</a> [google.com].  A heated driveway will take care of all that pesky snow, and help ensure global warming for the rest of the planet with the wasted energy.<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:)</p><p>
&nbsp; &nbsp; Actually, Wikipedia says that automatic systems are fairly efficient, only running while snow is falling at your driveway.</p><p>
&nbsp; &nbsp; I don't know how long they've been available, or how good they are.  I don't live in snow country.  Gimme a robot that'll clean up after a hurricane, and I'd be happy.   Hmmm, the car is upside down in the neighbors yard, but his roof is in mine.  Fair trade.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>    Actually , there 's a tech way to handle driveway snow .
Google for " driveway snowmelt system " [ google.com ] .
A heated driveway will take care of all that pesky snow , and help ensure global warming for the rest of the planet with the wasted energy .
: )     Actually , Wikipedia says that automatic systems are fairly efficient , only running while snow is falling at your driveway .
    I do n't know how long they 've been available , or how good they are .
I do n't live in snow country .
Gim me a robot that 'll clean up after a hurricane , and I 'd be happy .
Hmmm , the car is upside down in the neighbors yard , but his roof is in mine .
Fair trade .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>
    Actually, there's a tech way to handle driveway snow.
Google for "driveway snowmelt system" [google.com].
A heated driveway will take care of all that pesky snow, and help ensure global warming for the rest of the planet with the wasted energy.
:)
    Actually, Wikipedia says that automatic systems are fairly efficient, only running while snow is falling at your driveway.
    I don't know how long they've been available, or how good they are.
I don't live in snow country.
Gimme a robot that'll clean up after a hurricane, and I'd be happy.
Hmmm, the car is upside down in the neighbors yard, but his roof is in mine.
Fair trade.</sentencetext>
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	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30662448</id>
	<title>Re:Hot Alien Chicks</title>
	<author>geekoid</author>
	<datestamp>1262694000000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>It wasn't at first, when G Jrs took it over he drove it into the ground with mindless Lochness monster and ufo crap.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>It was n't at first , when G Jrs took it over he drove it into the ground with mindless Lochness monster and ufo crap .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>It wasn't at first, when G Jrs took it over he drove it into the ground with mindless Lochness monster and ufo crap.</sentencetext>
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	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30643072</id>
	<title>I would really like to find copies of the</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1262629860000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Interestin</modclass>
	<modscore>2</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>"Why pizza burns the roof of the mouth" articles that ran on the last page.  2 or 3, IIRC, arguing over whether it was the Melted Mozzarella Layer (MML) or Tomato Sauce Layer (TSL) that caused the burning.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>" Why pizza burns the roof of the mouth " articles that ran on the last page .
2 or 3 , IIRC , arguing over whether it was the Melted Mozzarella Layer ( MML ) or Tomato Sauce Layer ( TSL ) that caused the burning .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>"Why pizza burns the roof of the mouth" articles that ran on the last page.
2 or 3, IIRC, arguing over whether it was the Melted Mozzarella Layer (MML) or Tomato Sauce Layer (TSL) that caused the burning.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30644276</id>
	<title>Best. Magazine. Ever!</title>
	<author>mim</author>
	<datestamp>1262635200000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>I still have a bunch of copies stashed away somewhere that I found when cleaning out my dad's attic. Now I want to go find them! Good winter project for one of these weekends...</htmltext>
<tokenext>I still have a bunch of copies stashed away somewhere that I found when cleaning out my dad 's attic .
Now I want to go find them !
Good winter project for one of these weekends.. .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I still have a bunch of copies stashed away somewhere that I found when cleaning out my dad's attic.
Now I want to go find them!
Good winter project for one of these weekends...</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30643266</id>
	<title>Re:Died with Woowoo BS but...</title>
	<author>Kozz</author>
	<datestamp>1262630820000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p><div class="quote"><p>Only if Letters to Penthouse could be this accurate.  BRB.  Pizza delivery girl is here.</p></div><p>That was fabulous, thanks for that.<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:-)</p><p><b>+1, Underrated!</b></p></div>
	</htmltext>
<tokenext>Only if Letters to Penthouse could be this accurate .
BRB. Pizza delivery girl is here.That was fabulous , thanks for that .
: - ) + 1 , Underrated !</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Only if Letters to Penthouse could be this accurate.
BRB.  Pizza delivery girl is here.That was fabulous, thanks for that.
:-)+1, Underrated!
	</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30662600</id>
	<title>Re:Fond memories</title>
	<author>geekoid</author>
	<datestamp>1262694840000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Actually, in NEVER launched as OMNI, it's name was change from Nova before the launch.</p><p>And yes, once G. Jr took it over it turned into a waste land of nonsense.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Actually , in NEVER launched as OMNI , it 's name was change from Nova before the launch.And yes , once G. Jr took it over it turned into a waste land of nonsense .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Actually, in NEVER launched as OMNI, it's name was change from Nova before the launch.And yes, once G. Jr took it over it turned into a waste land of nonsense.</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30643842</parent>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30649668</id>
	<title>Re:by 2010..</title>
	<author>PaganRitual</author>
	<datestamp>1262615340000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>And if you want to get rid of built up snow, just chuck a 360 into the middle of it and turn it on. Shouldn't take long. I don't think that acutally playing a game on it actually warms it any more than it is while idle, it will melt snow regardless.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>And if you want to get rid of built up snow , just chuck a 360 into the middle of it and turn it on .
Should n't take long .
I do n't think that acutally playing a game on it actually warms it any more than it is while idle , it will melt snow regardless .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>And if you want to get rid of built up snow, just chuck a 360 into the middle of it and turn it on.
Shouldn't take long.
I don't think that acutally playing a game on it actually warms it any more than it is while idle, it will melt snow regardless.</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30643042</parent>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30643026</id>
	<title>Hot Alien Chicks</title>
	<author>Sleen</author>
	<datestamp>1262629680000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Informativ</modclass>
	<modscore>2</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>The Alien Chicks with the glossy lips were hot!</p><p>But yeah, loved that magazine and especially the short stories.  Not very reliable science stuff but overall a very optimistic and stylish mag that back then was a nice counterpoint to Heavy Metal which was less rooted in reality.</p><p>But both had Hot Alien Chicks!<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:)</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>The Alien Chicks with the glossy lips were hot ! But yeah , loved that magazine and especially the short stories .
Not very reliable science stuff but overall a very optimistic and stylish mag that back then was a nice counterpoint to Heavy Metal which was less rooted in reality.But both had Hot Alien Chicks !
: )</tokentext>
<sentencetext>The Alien Chicks with the glossy lips were hot!But yeah, loved that magazine and especially the short stories.
Not very reliable science stuff but overall a very optimistic and stylish mag that back then was a nice counterpoint to Heavy Metal which was less rooted in reality.But both had Hot Alien Chicks!
:)</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30645022</id>
	<title>I enjoyed OMNI, but</title>
	<author>nuckfuts</author>
	<datestamp>1262638620000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Reading OMNI always felt a bit like an exercise in wishful thinking. It was like reading car magazines that feature incredible prototypes. Yes they're awesome, but you're never going to see one in your lifetime. OMNI was about what was possible, not what was actually happening.</p><p>To read about <strong>real</strong> advances, I preferred <a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/" title="scientificamerican.com">Scientific American</a> [scientificamerican.com], especially back when <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin\_Gardner" title="wikipedia.org">Martin Gardner</a> [wikipedia.org] wrote for them. Prior to that, I never used the terms "recreational" and "mathematics" in the same sentence.</p><p>On a side note, there was a fantastic 3D illusion created as a tribute to Gardner. It's still available for download <a href="http://www.grand-illusions.com/opticalillusions/dragon\_illusion/" title="grand-illusions.com">here</a> [grand-illusions.com].</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Reading OMNI always felt a bit like an exercise in wishful thinking .
It was like reading car magazines that feature incredible prototypes .
Yes they 're awesome , but you 're never going to see one in your lifetime .
OMNI was about what was possible , not what was actually happening.To read about real advances , I preferred Scientific American [ scientificamerican.com ] , especially back when Martin Gardner [ wikipedia.org ] wrote for them .
Prior to that , I never used the terms " recreational " and " mathematics " in the same sentence.On a side note , there was a fantastic 3D illusion created as a tribute to Gardner .
It 's still available for download here [ grand-illusions.com ] .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Reading OMNI always felt a bit like an exercise in wishful thinking.
It was like reading car magazines that feature incredible prototypes.
Yes they're awesome, but you're never going to see one in your lifetime.
OMNI was about what was possible, not what was actually happening.To read about real advances, I preferred Scientific American [scientificamerican.com], especially back when Martin Gardner [wikipedia.org] wrote for them.
Prior to that, I never used the terms "recreational" and "mathematics" in the same sentence.On a side note, there was a fantastic 3D illusion created as a tribute to Gardner.
It's still available for download here [grand-illusions.com].</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30645298</id>
	<title>Re:Great aside from the mixing of science and frin</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1262596380000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p><div class="quote"><p> people got lost in nonsense from reading OMNI at an impressionable age and never really recovered.</p></div><p>Why would you want to recover? The world had a lot more possibilities between those covers.</p></div>
	</htmltext>
<tokenext>people got lost in nonsense from reading OMNI at an impressionable age and never really recovered.Why would you want to recover ?
The world had a lot more possibilities between those covers .</tokentext>
<sentencetext> people got lost in nonsense from reading OMNI at an impressionable age and never really recovered.Why would you want to recover?
The world had a lot more possibilities between those covers.
	</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30643326</parent>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30643180</id>
	<title>Technological Singularity</title>
	<author>zerosomething</author>
	<datestamp>1262630340000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>Vernor Vinge first mentions the Technological Singularity in the January 1983 issue in the First Word. I've got that one in a closet along with all the first 3 years except the first issue.</htmltext>
<tokenext>Vernor Vinge first mentions the Technological Singularity in the January 1983 issue in the First Word .
I 've got that one in a closet along with all the first 3 years except the first issue .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Vernor Vinge first mentions the Technological Singularity in the January 1983 issue in the First Word.
I've got that one in a closet along with all the first 3 years except the first issue.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30643326</id>
	<title>Great aside from the mixing of science and fringe</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1262631060000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Informativ</modclass>
	<modscore>2</modscore>
	<htmltext>I read it occasionally when I was a little kid. The combination of actual science along with fringe or outright pseudoscientific claims (alien visitations and hauntings seemed common choices) left a lasting impression on me as a kid. I ended up eventually adopting a sane, skeptical outlook but it took many years. I have to wonder how many people got lost in nonsense from reading OMNI at an impressionable age and never really recovered.</htmltext>
<tokenext>I read it occasionally when I was a little kid .
The combination of actual science along with fringe or outright pseudoscientific claims ( alien visitations and hauntings seemed common choices ) left a lasting impression on me as a kid .
I ended up eventually adopting a sane , skeptical outlook but it took many years .
I have to wonder how many people got lost in nonsense from reading OMNI at an impressionable age and never really recovered .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I read it occasionally when I was a little kid.
The combination of actual science along with fringe or outright pseudoscientific claims (alien visitations and hauntings seemed common choices) left a lasting impression on me as a kid.
I ended up eventually adopting a sane, skeptical outlook but it took many years.
I have to wonder how many people got lost in nonsense from reading OMNI at an impressionable age and never really recovered.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30647706</id>
	<title>Re:Dons mirrored shades 'n' jacks into Wintermute</title>
	<author>Bourbonium</author>
	<datestamp>1262605920000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Yes, you can thank OMNI's fiction editor Ellen Datlow for publishing William Gibson's first short story, "Johnny Mnemonic" way back when and launching his stellar career.  And I thank OMNI's features editor Pamela Weintraub for buying my first article in the last days of the magazine's life as a dead tree publication.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Yes , you can thank OMNI 's fiction editor Ellen Datlow for publishing William Gibson 's first short story , " Johnny Mnemonic " way back when and launching his stellar career .
And I thank OMNI 's features editor Pamela Weintraub for buying my first article in the last days of the magazine 's life as a dead tree publication .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Yes, you can thank OMNI's fiction editor Ellen Datlow for publishing William Gibson's first short story, "Johnny Mnemonic" way back when and launching his stellar career.
And I thank OMNI's features editor Pamela Weintraub for buying my first article in the last days of the magazine's life as a dead tree publication.</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30643146</parent>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30644720</id>
	<title>Re:I would really like to find copies of the</title>
	<author>dazedNconfuzed</author>
	<datestamp>1262637240000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>"It's Meat" short story - a memorable discussion among sentient-energy aliens baffled at their discovery of thinking, traveling, talking, singing <i>meat</i>, and their eventual decision to ignore it as repugnant.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>" It 's Meat " short story - a memorable discussion among sentient-energy aliens baffled at their discovery of thinking , traveling , talking , singing meat , and their eventual decision to ignore it as repugnant .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>"It's Meat" short story - a memorable discussion among sentient-energy aliens baffled at their discovery of thinking, traveling, talking, singing meat, and their eventual decision to ignore it as repugnant.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30643238</id>
	<title>Wow, this brings back memories.</title>
	<author>foo fighter</author>
	<datestamp>1262630700000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Wow. That takes me back. My dad got me a subscription to OMNI in the late 80's. It was always a good day when the latest ish would show up on the kitchen table when I got home from school. When it folded I looked around for something to replace it, but there never really was its equal. Wired came close during its peak in the mid- to late-90s, but it didn't have the usually short fiction or kooky charm. Realms of Fantasy magazine continues to be my source for short fiction (though it was strictly fantasy, nothing approaching sci-fi is allowed to touch its pages), kooky ads, and the Folkroots column is great. But by the 2000s I had dropped all my print science mag subscriptions and moved solely online. Thanks<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/.!</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Wow .
That takes me back .
My dad got me a subscription to OMNI in the late 80 's .
It was always a good day when the latest ish would show up on the kitchen table when I got home from school .
When it folded I looked around for something to replace it , but there never really was its equal .
Wired came close during its peak in the mid- to late-90s , but it did n't have the usually short fiction or kooky charm .
Realms of Fantasy magazine continues to be my source for short fiction ( though it was strictly fantasy , nothing approaching sci-fi is allowed to touch its pages ) , kooky ads , and the Folkroots column is great .
But by the 2000s I had dropped all my print science mag subscriptions and moved solely online .
Thanks / .
!</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Wow.
That takes me back.
My dad got me a subscription to OMNI in the late 80's.
It was always a good day when the latest ish would show up on the kitchen table when I got home from school.
When it folded I looked around for something to replace it, but there never really was its equal.
Wired came close during its peak in the mid- to late-90s, but it didn't have the usually short fiction or kooky charm.
Realms of Fantasy magazine continues to be my source for short fiction (though it was strictly fantasy, nothing approaching sci-fi is allowed to touch its pages), kooky ads, and the Folkroots column is great.
But by the 2000s I had dropped all my print science mag subscriptions and moved solely online.
Thanks /.
!</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30643742</id>
	<title>Re:Hot Alien Chicks</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1262632800000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Funny</modclass>
	<modscore>4</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>My parents didn't allow me to subscribe to OMNI because it was a Penthouse publication.</p><p>Unlike my friends, who all had stashes of porn that they hid, I had stashes of Omni.<br>It's sad to grow up as a geek.</p><p>Yes, those Alien Chicks were hot.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>My parents did n't allow me to subscribe to OMNI because it was a Penthouse publication.Unlike my friends , who all had stashes of porn that they hid , I had stashes of Omni.It 's sad to grow up as a geek.Yes , those Alien Chicks were hot .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>My parents didn't allow me to subscribe to OMNI because it was a Penthouse publication.Unlike my friends, who all had stashes of porn that they hid, I had stashes of Omni.It's sad to grow up as a geek.Yes, those Alien Chicks were hot.</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30643026</parent>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30643150</id>
	<title>We Didn't Put a Colony on the Moon</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1262630220000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>But at least we managed to bomb it. NOW it knows who's boss!
<p>
--Greg</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>But at least we managed to bomb it .
NOW it knows who 's boss !
--Greg</tokentext>
<sentencetext>But at least we managed to bomb it.
NOW it knows who's boss!
--Greg</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30643440</id>
	<title>Mondo 2000</title>
	<author>British</author>
	<datestamp>1262631600000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Informativ</modclass>
	<modscore>2</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Anyone remember Mondo 2000? I bought &amp; read issues of that, but looking back, it was just pure performance art garbage. I swear that magazine tried to worship anyone related to The WELL in every issue. Oooh! Circuit bending! Ooh! My life on a webcam! Boy did that get old.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Anyone remember Mondo 2000 ?
I bought &amp; read issues of that , but looking back , it was just pure performance art garbage .
I swear that magazine tried to worship anyone related to The WELL in every issue .
Oooh ! Circuit bending !
Ooh ! My life on a webcam !
Boy did that get old .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Anyone remember Mondo 2000?
I bought &amp; read issues of that, but looking back, it was just pure performance art garbage.
I swear that magazine tried to worship anyone related to The WELL in every issue.
Oooh! Circuit bending!
Ooh! My life on a webcam!
Boy did that get old.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30643344</id>
	<title>Jumped the Shark</title>
	<author>DCGaymer</author>
	<datestamp>1262631180000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>Sadly as a growing adolescent it became clear to me Omni had jumped the shark when they showed full page color illustrations of dinosaurs mating...as a featured article.

Omni, I loved you, but that was the end.</htmltext>
<tokenext>Sadly as a growing adolescent it became clear to me Omni had jumped the shark when they showed full page color illustrations of dinosaurs mating...as a featured article .
Omni , I loved you , but that was the end .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Sadly as a growing adolescent it became clear to me Omni had jumped the shark when they showed full page color illustrations of dinosaurs mating...as a featured article.
Omni, I loved you, but that was the end.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30643968</id>
	<title>Re:Died with Woowoo BS but...</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1262633760000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>I hated when the futurist culture died.  I'm enjoy the ideas behind it but people right now aren't sure what direction it's going to take, most scifi is way way too far out.  And there's very few writers who are looking at things on a shorter scale 10-50yrs.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>I hated when the futurist culture died .
I 'm enjoy the ideas behind it but people right now are n't sure what direction it 's going to take , most scifi is way way too far out .
And there 's very few writers who are looking at things on a shorter scale 10-50yrs .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I hated when the futurist culture died.
I'm enjoy the ideas behind it but people right now aren't sure what direction it's going to take, most scifi is way way too far out.
And there's very few writers who are looking at things on a shorter scale 10-50yrs.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30646448</id>
	<title>Re:Fond memories</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1262600580000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>"Omni" was only chosen as a replacement because it fit into the look &amp; feel of the layout already set up for "Nova."</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>" Omni " was only chosen as a replacement because it fit into the look &amp; feel of the layout already set up for " Nova .
"</tokentext>
<sentencetext>"Omni" was only chosen as a replacement because it fit into the look &amp; feel of the layout already set up for "Nova.
"</sentencetext>
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	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30645530</id>
	<title>fond and proud memory</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1262597160000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>My dad was proud to have had a joke published in OMNI. I think it was for a contest. It's here: http://www.jpnordin.com/fun/science.htm</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>My dad was proud to have had a joke published in OMNI .
I think it was for a contest .
It 's here : http : //www.jpnordin.com/fun/science.htm</tokentext>
<sentencetext>My dad was proud to have had a joke published in OMNI.
I think it was for a contest.
It's here: http://www.jpnordin.com/fun/science.htm</sentencetext>
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	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30645666</id>
	<title>Johnny Mnemonic (not the film) and Sandkings</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1262597580000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Interestin</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny\_Mnemonic" title="wikipedia.org" rel="nofollow">short story Johnny Menmonic</a> [wikipedia.org] first appeared in OMNI, and was probably my first exposure to Gibson as a kid.  The other OMNI SF story that sticks in my head was Sandkings by George R. R. Martin.  OMNI showcased some great SF and art.  The art for Johnny Menmonic was a Helnwein self-portrait - some of you might recognize it as the cover of the Scorpions album Blackout, similar to the cover of Rammstein's Sehnsucht.  There was even an occasional long poem.</p><p>I also recall an issue where there were various political predictions, including that the USSR would become more capitalist while the US would become more socialist by 2020, IIRC.  Not bad predictions (although terribly general), even though the USSR dissolved.  Russia has become more capitalist and the US has expanded social programs even before the current congress (think SCHIP, etc.).</p><p>OMNI introduced me to my favorite limerick:</p><p>If binary digits are bits,<br>Then decimal ones could be dits,<br>And when things get weary,<br>Try something less dreary,<br>Like playing with trinary tits.</p><p>And the "Anti-Matter" section was always a fun read.  AFAIK, there's nothing like OMNI around anymore.  These days, futurism, when one can find it at all, tends toward either the intolerably bleak or some virtual reality mental masturbation.  No, Star Trek doesn't count as futurism.  With so few of us eagerly anticipating brighter futures, I wonder if enough of us are being inspired to create them.</p><p>- T</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>The short story Johnny Menmonic [ wikipedia.org ] first appeared in OMNI , and was probably my first exposure to Gibson as a kid .
The other OMNI SF story that sticks in my head was Sandkings by George R. R. Martin .
OMNI showcased some great SF and art .
The art for Johnny Menmonic was a Helnwein self-portrait - some of you might recognize it as the cover of the Scorpions album Blackout , similar to the cover of Rammstein 's Sehnsucht .
There was even an occasional long poem.I also recall an issue where there were various political predictions , including that the USSR would become more capitalist while the US would become more socialist by 2020 , IIRC .
Not bad predictions ( although terribly general ) , even though the USSR dissolved .
Russia has become more capitalist and the US has expanded social programs even before the current congress ( think SCHIP , etc .
) .OMNI introduced me to my favorite limerick : If binary digits are bits,Then decimal ones could be dits,And when things get weary,Try something less dreary,Like playing with trinary tits.And the " Anti-Matter " section was always a fun read .
AFAIK , there 's nothing like OMNI around anymore .
These days , futurism , when one can find it at all , tends toward either the intolerably bleak or some virtual reality mental masturbation .
No , Star Trek does n't count as futurism .
With so few of us eagerly anticipating brighter futures , I wonder if enough of us are being inspired to create them.- T</tokentext>
<sentencetext>The short story Johnny Menmonic [wikipedia.org] first appeared in OMNI, and was probably my first exposure to Gibson as a kid.
The other OMNI SF story that sticks in my head was Sandkings by George R. R. Martin.
OMNI showcased some great SF and art.
The art for Johnny Menmonic was a Helnwein self-portrait - some of you might recognize it as the cover of the Scorpions album Blackout, similar to the cover of Rammstein's Sehnsucht.
There was even an occasional long poem.I also recall an issue where there were various political predictions, including that the USSR would become more capitalist while the US would become more socialist by 2020, IIRC.
Not bad predictions (although terribly general), even though the USSR dissolved.
Russia has become more capitalist and the US has expanded social programs even before the current congress (think SCHIP, etc.
).OMNI introduced me to my favorite limerick:If binary digits are bits,Then decimal ones could be dits,And when things get weary,Try something less dreary,Like playing with trinary tits.And the "Anti-Matter" section was always a fun read.
AFAIK, there's nothing like OMNI around anymore.
These days, futurism, when one can find it at all, tends toward either the intolerably bleak or some virtual reality mental masturbation.
No, Star Trek doesn't count as futurism.
With so few of us eagerly anticipating brighter futures, I wonder if enough of us are being inspired to create them.- T</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30643492</id>
	<title>I remember...</title>
	<author>c0y</author>
	<datestamp>1262631840000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Back in the 80s I recall reading an article in OMNI that debunked many of the popular sci-fi myths. Among the notable points:</p><p>* Invisibility implies blindness since your retinas wouldn't absorb any light.</p><p>* Time travel without space travel would suck too, since you'd most likely re-materialize in empty space.</p><p>* Giant insects will collapse under the own weight.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Back in the 80s I recall reading an article in OMNI that debunked many of the popular sci-fi myths .
Among the notable points : * Invisibility implies blindness since your retinas would n't absorb any light .
* Time travel without space travel would suck too , since you 'd most likely re-materialize in empty space .
* Giant insects will collapse under the own weight .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Back in the 80s I recall reading an article in OMNI that debunked many of the popular sci-fi myths.
Among the notable points:* Invisibility implies blindness since your retinas wouldn't absorb any light.
* Time travel without space travel would suck too, since you'd most likely re-materialize in empty space.
* Giant insects will collapse under the own weight.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30647980</id>
	<title>geek cred</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1262607180000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>I recently watched the movie 2010 in honor of it actually being 2010.  There was a scene with Dr. Floyd sitting at the beach using a laptop with an OMNI magazine next to him that I think was supposed to show what an intellectual he was.<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:)</htmltext>
<tokenext>I recently watched the movie 2010 in honor of it actually being 2010 .
There was a scene with Dr. Floyd sitting at the beach using a laptop with an OMNI magazine next to him that I think was supposed to show what an intellectual he was .
: )</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I recently watched the movie 2010 in honor of it actually being 2010.
There was a scene with Dr. Floyd sitting at the beach using a laptop with an OMNI magazine next to him that I think was supposed to show what an intellectual he was.
:)</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30644078</id>
	<title>The Sandkings!</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1262634300000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Awesome short story. It so opened my eyes to what Sci-fi could be. My dad got it and I remember thinking "WOW".</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Awesome short story .
It so opened my eyes to what Sci-fi could be .
My dad got it and I remember thinking " WOW " .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Awesome short story.
It so opened my eyes to what Sci-fi could be.
My dad got it and I remember thinking "WOW".</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30643236</id>
	<title>The other publication</title>
	<author>oldhack</author>
	<datestamp>1262630700000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>
I only remember this as the other publication by the publisher of the once-great Penthouse.<nobr> <wbr></nobr>;-)
</p><p>
Porn or science, resistance is futile to the Internet.<nobr> <wbr></nobr>;-)</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>I only remember this as the other publication by the publisher of the once-great Penthouse .
; - ) Porn or science , resistance is futile to the Internet .
; - )</tokentext>
<sentencetext>
I only remember this as the other publication by the publisher of the once-great Penthouse.
;-)

Porn or science, resistance is futile to the Internet.
;-)</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30644854</id>
	<title>0...3...2...1</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1262637960000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Not to be overlooked here on<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/., OMNI's very title was early 733t-speek (it's a launch countdown, if you don't get it).</p><p>First place I read Gibson and lots of others, plus those glossy ads for Compuserve eventually led me to ring up a year's allowance in gaming fees in the first month over the 300-baud modem on my Color Computer.</p><p>We've come a long way with both technology and sci-fi.  As much as I loved reading Clark and Gibson, these days I'm blown away by the likes of Charlie Stross (<i> <a href="http://www.feedbooks.com/book/228" title="feedbooks.com" rel="nofollow">Accelerando</a> [feedbooks.com] </i>) and Peter Watts (<i> <a href="http://www.feedbooks.com/book/976" title="feedbooks.com" rel="nofollow">Blindsight</a> [feedbooks.com] </i>).</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Not to be overlooked here on /. , OMNI 's very title was early 733t-speek ( it 's a launch countdown , if you do n't get it ) .First place I read Gibson and lots of others , plus those glossy ads for Compuserve eventually led me to ring up a year 's allowance in gaming fees in the first month over the 300-baud modem on my Color Computer.We 've come a long way with both technology and sci-fi .
As much as I loved reading Clark and Gibson , these days I 'm blown away by the likes of Charlie Stross ( Accelerando [ feedbooks.com ] ) and Peter Watts ( Blindsight [ feedbooks.com ] ) .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Not to be overlooked here on /., OMNI's very title was early 733t-speek (it's a launch countdown, if you don't get it).First place I read Gibson and lots of others, plus those glossy ads for Compuserve eventually led me to ring up a year's allowance in gaming fees in the first month over the 300-baud modem on my Color Computer.We've come a long way with both technology and sci-fi.
As much as I loved reading Clark and Gibson, these days I'm blown away by the likes of Charlie Stross ( Accelerando [feedbooks.com] ) and Peter Watts ( Blindsight [feedbooks.com] ).</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30643482</id>
	<title>Re:Died with Woowoo BS but...</title>
	<author>bughunter</author>
	<datestamp>1262631840000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><blockquote><div><p> <i> Only if Letters to Penthouse could be this accurate. </i></p></div> </blockquote><p>

Well, it *was* published by Bob Guccioni.

(Which means if it were still in print, it'd be full of urinating female robots by now...)</p></div>
	</htmltext>
<tokenext>Only if Letters to Penthouse could be this accurate .
Well , it * was * published by Bob Guccioni .
( Which means if it were still in print , it 'd be full of urinating female robots by now... )</tokentext>
<sentencetext>  Only if Letters to Penthouse could be this accurate.
Well, it *was* published by Bob Guccioni.
(Which means if it were still in print, it'd be full of urinating female robots by now...)
	</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30643092</parent>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30652926</id>
	<title>OMNI helped treat my mum's heart disease</title>
	<author>rpjs</author>
	<datestamp>1262688480000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Interestin</modclass>
	<modscore>2</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Back in the early 80s my mother developed angina, and was prescribed nitroglycerine tablets for it - you popped one under your tounge when you felt the onset of chest pains and it helped keep your coronary arteries open.  Although they worked, as they were reactive rather than proactive, they weren't so useful if the chest pains and breathlessness were particularly debillitating.  Then OMNI had a short piece about a new treatment from the US: a patch that contained the drug and slowly released it through the skin to stop the angina attacks happening in the first place.  I showed this to my mum, who showed it her doctors and she became just the second woman in the whole UK to receive the treatment.</p><p>Thanks OMNI, I still miss you.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Back in the early 80s my mother developed angina , and was prescribed nitroglycerine tablets for it - you popped one under your tounge when you felt the onset of chest pains and it helped keep your coronary arteries open .
Although they worked , as they were reactive rather than proactive , they were n't so useful if the chest pains and breathlessness were particularly debillitating .
Then OMNI had a short piece about a new treatment from the US : a patch that contained the drug and slowly released it through the skin to stop the angina attacks happening in the first place .
I showed this to my mum , who showed it her doctors and she became just the second woman in the whole UK to receive the treatment.Thanks OMNI , I still miss you .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Back in the early 80s my mother developed angina, and was prescribed nitroglycerine tablets for it - you popped one under your tounge when you felt the onset of chest pains and it helped keep your coronary arteries open.
Although they worked, as they were reactive rather than proactive, they weren't so useful if the chest pains and breathlessness were particularly debillitating.
Then OMNI had a short piece about a new treatment from the US: a patch that contained the drug and slowly released it through the skin to stop the angina attacks happening in the first place.
I showed this to my mum, who showed it her doctors and she became just the second woman in the whole UK to receive the treatment.Thanks OMNI, I still miss you.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30643032</id>
	<title>I remember the artists</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1262629680000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Insightful</modclass>
	<modscore>4</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>OMNI had the coolest illustrators of the day - about the only one of my longstanding favorites that I don't recall ever seeing<br>in the mag was Frank Frazetta.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>OMNI had the coolest illustrators of the day - about the only one of my longstanding favorites that I do n't recall ever seeingin the mag was Frank Frazetta .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>OMNI had the coolest illustrators of the day - about the only one of my longstanding favorites that I don't recall ever seeingin the mag was Frank Frazetta.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30643226</id>
	<title>Cyberspace was a pretty cool term,</title>
	<author>david@ecsd.com</author>
	<datestamp>1262630640000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>until the mass media got a hold of it.  Then it was cyberthis and cyberthat.  Nowadays, every time I see the cyber prefix, I want to find William Gibson and smack him one on the mouth.</htmltext>
<tokenext>until the mass media got a hold of it .
Then it was cyberthis and cyberthat .
Nowadays , every time I see the cyber prefix , I want to find William Gibson and smack him one on the mouth .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>until the mass media got a hold of it.
Then it was cyberthis and cyberthat.
Nowadays, every time I see the cyber prefix, I want to find William Gibson and smack him one on the mouth.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30643284</id>
	<title>Great mag</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1262630880000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Informativ</modclass>
	<modscore>2</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Oh man I used to love this mag, I had long forgotten about it. I subscribed for several years. I was in college from '78-'81 and that is that main period I remember reading. I read an article about the development of video games and how flight simulator technology was being applied. When I left college I went in the air force and became a flight simulator technician. I chose that job from the list based on reading about it in Omni.</p><p>Definitely the best decision I ever made. I found I had a knack for technology and working on/with computers. At my high school there were no computers, most people had never seen one. I never saw a computer in college except maybe in the administration building when they took my money. If I had not read that article and chosen a technology field in the AF I would probably be a burnt out school teacher.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Oh man I used to love this mag , I had long forgotten about it .
I subscribed for several years .
I was in college from '78-'81 and that is that main period I remember reading .
I read an article about the development of video games and how flight simulator technology was being applied .
When I left college I went in the air force and became a flight simulator technician .
I chose that job from the list based on reading about it in Omni.Definitely the best decision I ever made .
I found I had a knack for technology and working on/with computers .
At my high school there were no computers , most people had never seen one .
I never saw a computer in college except maybe in the administration building when they took my money .
If I had not read that article and chosen a technology field in the AF I would probably be a burnt out school teacher .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Oh man I used to love this mag, I had long forgotten about it.
I subscribed for several years.
I was in college from '78-'81 and that is that main period I remember reading.
I read an article about the development of video games and how flight simulator technology was being applied.
When I left college I went in the air force and became a flight simulator technician.
I chose that job from the list based on reading about it in Omni.Definitely the best decision I ever made.
I found I had a knack for technology and working on/with computers.
At my high school there were no computers, most people had never seen one.
I never saw a computer in college except maybe in the administration building when they took my money.
If I had not read that article and chosen a technology field in the AF I would probably be a burnt out school teacher.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30656746</id>
	<title>Re:Died with Woowoo BS but...</title>
	<author>kalirion</author>
	<datestamp>1262714520000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>You sound like someone who'd enjoy syfy's (yuck) Eureka.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>You sound like someone who 'd enjoy syfy 's ( yuck ) Eureka .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>You sound like someone who'd enjoy syfy's (yuck) Eureka.</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30643968</parent>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30661660</id>
	<title>Hexahexaflexagon</title>
	<author>Zot Quixote</author>
	<datestamp>1262690280000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>I built my first hexahexaflexagon following instructions and cutting up the pages of Omni...good times. Beautiful little paper topographical wonder.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>I built my first hexahexaflexagon following instructions and cutting up the pages of Omni...good times .
Beautiful little paper topographical wonder .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I built my first hexahexaflexagon following instructions and cutting up the pages of Omni...good times.
Beautiful little paper topographical wonder.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30643146</id>
	<title>Dons mirrored shades 'n' jacks into Wintermute</title>
	<author>phonewebcam</author>
	<datestamp>1262630160000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Man that just flicked the coolest retro switch in my head<nobr> <wbr></nobr>... guess its time to read Neuromancer again.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Man that just flicked the coolest retro switch in my head ... guess its time to read Neuromancer again .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Man that just flicked the coolest retro switch in my head ... guess its time to read Neuromancer again.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30643842</id>
	<title>Fond memories</title>
	<author>Telecommando</author>
	<datestamp>1262633160000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>I was a charter subscriber to OMNI. Actually, it wasn't OMNI I subscribed to, it was called NOVA at the time. There was apparently was a fuss made by WGBH and their NOVA TV series so the magazine's name was changed to OMNI before the first issue was published.</p><p>In the beginning it was quite good but in the later years it veered into pseudo-science and other nonsense and I lost interest and let my subscription lapse.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>I was a charter subscriber to OMNI .
Actually , it was n't OMNI I subscribed to , it was called NOVA at the time .
There was apparently was a fuss made by WGBH and their NOVA TV series so the magazine 's name was changed to OMNI before the first issue was published.In the beginning it was quite good but in the later years it veered into pseudo-science and other nonsense and I lost interest and let my subscription lapse .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I was a charter subscriber to OMNI.
Actually, it wasn't OMNI I subscribed to, it was called NOVA at the time.
There was apparently was a fuss made by WGBH and their NOVA TV series so the magazine's name was changed to OMNI before the first issue was published.In the beginning it was quite good but in the later years it veered into pseudo-science and other nonsense and I lost interest and let my subscription lapse.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30665824</id>
	<title>Re:Hot Alien Chicks</title>
	<author>RealGrouchy</author>
	<datestamp>1262714940000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>I never realized that. I'll have to take another look at that full set of OMNIs stashed away in my closet...</p><p>- RG&gt;</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>I never realized that .
I 'll have to take another look at that full set of OMNIs stashed away in my closet...- RG &gt;</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I never realized that.
I'll have to take another look at that full set of OMNIs stashed away in my closet...- RG&gt;</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30643742</parent>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30649524</id>
	<title>Memories.</title>
	<author>Ostracus</author>
	<datestamp>1262614380000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Yes I remember OMNI fondly right along with Future magazine. I even have the OMNI music collection.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Yes I remember OMNI fondly right along with Future magazine .
I even have the OMNI music collection .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Yes I remember OMNI fondly right along with Future magazine.
I even have the OMNI music collection.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30643258</id>
	<title>It started off cool, but then went weird</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1262630820000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>I remember reading it when they started and it seemed to be kinda the "Wired" magazine of the day, but then they got into pop sci-fi stuff (probably to appeal more to the masses) and then it just got weird with stories of Alien abductions and alien sex and alien whatever.  yeah...the "alien whatever"...that's when I stopped reading it.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>I remember reading it when they started and it seemed to be kinda the " Wired " magazine of the day , but then they got into pop sci-fi stuff ( probably to appeal more to the masses ) and then it just got weird with stories of Alien abductions and alien sex and alien whatever .
yeah...the " alien whatever " ...that 's when I stopped reading it .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I remember reading it when they started and it seemed to be kinda the "Wired" magazine of the day, but then they got into pop sci-fi stuff (probably to appeal more to the masses) and then it just got weird with stories of Alien abductions and alien sex and alien whatever.
yeah...the "alien whatever"...that's when I stopped reading it.</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment10_01_04_1623233.30644290</id>
	<title>We need an online index</title>
	<author>MDMurphy</author>
	<datestamp>1262635260000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>I really wish I could find a comprehensive online index.  A few things I'd really like to read:</p><p>--The world's hardest crossword puzzle.  A friend and I worked on this together, spending hours ( pre-WWW ) at the library searching for answers to clues like "four dimensional hypercube" and "piniped".  I'd like to give it a go now with Google's help as well as seeing the answers, which I never saw.</p><p>--Someone took a mobile home and worked to make it as energy efficient as possible.  I remember it was super-insulated, even having foam "corks" to block off deep set windows at night and keep heat in.  A tiny woodstove, maybe one intended for an ice shack, provided all the heat needed.</p><p>Every once in a while I'll see someone on Ebay selling issues from the periods I think these ran, and ponder buying a several year set to see if I can find them.</p><p>Of course, even better would be if someone put all the old issues online.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>I really wish I could find a comprehensive online index .
A few things I 'd really like to read : --The world 's hardest crossword puzzle .
A friend and I worked on this together , spending hours ( pre-WWW ) at the library searching for answers to clues like " four dimensional hypercube " and " piniped " .
I 'd like to give it a go now with Google 's help as well as seeing the answers , which I never saw.--Someone took a mobile home and worked to make it as energy efficient as possible .
I remember it was super-insulated , even having foam " corks " to block off deep set windows at night and keep heat in .
A tiny woodstove , maybe one intended for an ice shack , provided all the heat needed.Every once in a while I 'll see someone on Ebay selling issues from the periods I think these ran , and ponder buying a several year set to see if I can find them.Of course , even better would be if someone put all the old issues online .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I really wish I could find a comprehensive online index.
A few things I'd really like to read:--The world's hardest crossword puzzle.
A friend and I worked on this together, spending hours ( pre-WWW ) at the library searching for answers to clues like "four dimensional hypercube" and "piniped".
I'd like to give it a go now with Google's help as well as seeing the answers, which I never saw.--Someone took a mobile home and worked to make it as energy efficient as possible.
I remember it was super-insulated, even having foam "corks" to block off deep set windows at night and keep heat in.
A tiny woodstove, maybe one intended for an ice shack, provided all the heat needed.Every once in a while I'll see someone on Ebay selling issues from the periods I think these ran, and ponder buying a several year set to see if I can find them.Of course, even better would be if someone put all the old issues online.</sentencetext>
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	<title>Orignally going to be called NOVA</title>
	<author>CharlieG</author>
	<datestamp>1262599980000</datestamp>
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	<htmltext><p>Sitting on my bookshelf is the first issue, with a copy of the ORIGINAL Ad for the magazine (I assume Dad cut it out of Penthouse - I was a tad young), with it's Original name - NOVA</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Sitting on my bookshelf is the first issue , with a copy of the ORIGINAL Ad for the magazine ( I assume Dad cut it out of Penthouse - I was a tad young ) , with it 's Original name - NOVA</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Sitting on my bookshelf is the first issue, with a copy of the ORIGINAL Ad for the magazine (I assume Dad cut it out of Penthouse - I was a tad young), with it's Original name - NOVA</sentencetext>
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	<title>Pure Geek Porn......</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1262632800000</datestamp>
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	<htmltext><p>....it was indeed !</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>....it was indeed !</tokentext>
<sentencetext>....it was indeed !</sentencetext>
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	<title>Re:Great aside from the mixing of science and frin</title>
	<author>GabriellaKat</author>
	<datestamp>1262598600000</datestamp>
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	<htmltext>Or how many of us now watch SyFy (still hating the name change, as much as when Omni left for the web). I used to steal my big brothers copies and read them and loved this magazine.
Guess its a good thing I didnt take his Penthouse and Playboys as often, or I would have thought that was how women are supposed to look and act ALL the time.</htmltext>
<tokenext>Or how many of us now watch SyFy ( still hating the name change , as much as when Omni left for the web ) .
I used to steal my big brothers copies and read them and loved this magazine .
Guess its a good thing I didnt take his Penthouse and Playboys as often , or I would have thought that was how women are supposed to look and act ALL the time .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Or how many of us now watch SyFy (still hating the name change, as much as when Omni left for the web).
I used to steal my big brothers copies and read them and loved this magazine.
Guess its a good thing I didnt take his Penthouse and Playboys as often, or I would have thought that was how women are supposed to look and act ALL the time.</sentencetext>
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