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  Omni (magazine) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Omni was a magazine that contained articles on science fact and short works of science fiction.
The bulk of the magazine, meanwhile, profiled science and scientists with a visionary, gonzo-style science journalism rooted in story-telling, verisimilitude, and authorial voice.
OMNI celebrated science with an edgy entertaining patter and irreverence, leaving the straight reporting to the popular science magazine, Discover, launched a couple of years after OMNI itself.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Omni_Magazine   (556 words)

  
 Omni (magazine): Just the facts...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Omni was a magazine (A periodic paperback publication) which contained both articles on science fact and short works of science fiction (Literary fantasy involving the imagined impact of science on society).
Omni also brought the works of numerous painters to the attention of a large audience, such as H.R. Giger (additional info and facts about H.R. Giger) and De Es Schwertberger.
In its later years, the magazine seemed to become more preoccupied with UFO (An (apparently) flying object whose nature is unknown; especially those considered to have extraterrestrial origins) s and the paranormal (additional info and facts about paranormal).
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/O/Om/Omni_(magazine).htm   (367 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Omni Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Omni Magazine According to mortgage broker Charcol, around a third of homeowners could cut mortgage repayments overnight, simply by swapping from the standard variable rate they are paying now to the best deal on the market.
Omni Magazine FOR homeowners struggling under the extra financial burden of the five interest rate rises in past months, it might be time to weigh up the relative merits of changing mortgage deals in the event of another rise after next month's general election.
Omni Magazine Additionally, news last week from the Bank of Scotland that house prices north of the Border are rising faster than anywhere else in the UK, means that overstretched homeowners have never been in a better position when negotiating with mortgage companies.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Omni-Magazine   (562 words)

  
 Omni (magazine) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Omni was a magazine which contained both articles on science fact and short works of science fiction.
It was launched by Kathy Keeton Guccione, wife of Penthouse magazine publisher Bob Guccione, and edited by Ben Bova from 1978 until 1981 and by Ellen Datlow from 1981 until 1998, when the magazine folded.
The magazine survived for some time in an online-only version starting in 1997, but updates ceased in 1998, and the site was shut down in 2003.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Omni_Magazine   (409 words)

  
 Omni Magazine
The magazine was started by Kathy Keeton Guccione the wife of Penthouse founder Bob Guccione.
Its high circulation (permitting payment for stories many times higher than that of other science fiction magazines), coupled with some outstanding fiction editors, allowed it to attract prominent speculative fiction writers.
However, in its later years, the magazine seemed to become preoccupied with UFOss and the paranormal.
pedia.newsfilter.co.uk /wikipedia/o/om/omni_magazine.html   (251 words)

  
 Science, Censorship, and Omni Magazine. Origins Research 10:1. Foreman, Christopher
The central irony of the entire Omni issue is its premise that a small group of religious zealots is conspiring to censor all the science books in America.
This tactic of role-reversal is as repugnant in a magazine as it is in a court of law.
Omni's tirade of arguments based on ridicule, religion, censorship, and church/state was little more than a school of red herrings.
www.arn.org /docs/orpages/or101/101cship.htm   (2116 words)

  
 OMNI Magazine Interview with Glen Dennis
OMNI: Returning to 1947, after meeting with the nurse, you had no doubt there was something very much out of line going on.
OMNI: Many questions have been raised about your relationship with the nurse, even that you and she considered marriage.
OMNI: Several researchers are attempting to locate the nurse under the name Naomi Maria Selff, which has been published by UFO skeptic Philip J. Klass.
www.subversiveelement.com /Roswell_Omni_Interview.html   (5020 words)

  
 Omni (magazine)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Omni was a magazine which contained both articles onscience fact and short works of science fiction.
A section of the magazine was titled " UFO Update".
The magazine ceased publication in 1996 in the wake of numerous financial difficultiesbefalling Guccione and his company General Media, and a website folded not longafter.
www.therfcc.org /omni-magazine--271218.html   (187 words)

  
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Of this prior art, the Colt 1911, a frame and magazine similar to the Browning Hi-Power, and a magazine similar to the Llama Omni magazine were before the Patent and Trademark Office during prosecution of the '618 patent.
This convergence allows cartridges which are inside the magazine in a staggered side-by-side configuration to feed into the narrowed top portion of the magazine and then into the chamber.
It is true that the plastic tabs inside the Llama Omni grip covers are not part of the frame and that the frame itself, without the grip covers attached, shows no convergence of the kind claimed in the '618 patent.
www.cs.cmu.edu /afs/cs/user/wbardwel/public/nfalist/para_ordnance_v_sgs.txt   (4838 words)

  
 inkblurt » Blog Archive » Omni Magazine “Shrine”
Omni Magazine was one of the most rewarding reading experience I ever had…too bad the very quirkiness that made it so endearing to me probablt prevented it from making it into the big time.
OMNI was my favorite magazine when I was growing up - I remember the first issue that I had noticed at the magazine stand in the grocery store had fascinated me - the cover art had a butterfly sitting on a diaper pin.
The magazine was headed from the beginning by Bob Guccione’s wife Kathy Keeton Guccione (a former stripper from South Africa).
www.inkblurt.com /archives/75   (4874 words)

  
 OMNI Magazine
Of the magazine Venosa says, "OMNI was the first to give the artist equal credit with the author...something that to this day is still not seen in any other newsstand magazine.
OMNI also put Fantastic Realism, Surrealism, Visionary, and every other type of 'Fantasy' art, square into the public's eye.
Venosa's art is also featured on the OMNI Webzine.
www.venosa.com /omni.html   (103 words)

  
 Omni: Entering the new frontier - new Omni Magazine Online service   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Omni is. Starting in September, Omni Magazine Online will be available via computer and modem to subscribers of America Online, the world's fastest-growing online service.
An Omni that will grow and evolve daily and in which your participation will be immediate and crucial.
Omni Magazine Online offers us the chance to bring you a wealth of material we simply don't have room for in the magazine.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1430/is_n1_v16/ai_14373391   (693 words)

  
 Omni Directional   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Omni- is a prefix meaning "all"; see, for example, omnipotence and omniscience.
The Omni was a large indoor stadium located in Atlanta, Georgia that was home to the NBA 's Atlanta Hawks and the NHL 's Atlanta Flames.
Omni Magazine was a science and science fiction magazine published from the 1970s to the 1990s.
www.witchware.com /File/23778-Omni.Directio...   (393 words)

  
 Rich Burridge's Blog : Weblog
Omni magazine is no more (although I was unable to track down the date of the final publication).
I also noticed that the Omni magazine web site http://www.omnimag.com/ is no longer responding (according to this site this has been so since 1st July 2004).
Hi I am looking for an issue of OMNI magazine that has an EYE with a seed germinating in it, on the front cover.
blogs.sun.com /roller/page/richb/Weblog/omni_magazine?catname=   (831 words)

  
 Tranquility Calendar Text From Omni Magazine
If these problems are yours, you are probably ready for the next step in time accounting, the Tranquility calendar, designed for a perfection-seeking society, especially the men and women of science.
Inspired by the Apollo 11 manned mission to the moon and developed for Omni, the Tranquility calendar will ease the complexity of scientific calculation, help astronomers fathom the movements of heavenly spheres, and facilitate high-stakes business.
As one of the most astronomically analyzed moments in scientific history, our base point can be used to chart the exact position of the earth in relationship to the moon and other celestial bodies.
www.mithrandir.com /Tranquility/tranquilityArticle.html   (1178 words)

  
 Kieth Ferrell - Web Developer's Journal Archives
Keith Ferrell is the Editor in Chief at Omni magazine which will debut on the WEB July 28.
Omni magazine, with a circulation and readership measured in the millions worldwide, celebrates its 18th year with a World Wide Web Time Machine metaphor.
We were the first magazine to publish William Gibson, who went on to write Nuromancer and really helped set the stage for the artistic side of the Cyberspace revolution.
webdevelopersjournal.com /archive/ferrell.html   (2602 words)

  
 Spotlight On: OMNI Magazine *Writers Write -- The IWJ*
OMNI has always been in the forefront of technology with regard to the contents of the magazine, so it was a natural progression to be in the forefront of technology in the actual means of its publication.
In addition to the award-winning fiction which graces OMNI's pages, OMNI readers have the opportunity to learn about the latest trends and happenings in the scientific world, read interviews with the leading lights in scientific fields and explore current social issues in a depth and breadth not possible in the traditional, non-interactive print format.
OMNI first instituted its Delphic poll in 1978 when it asked readers to predict when, if ever, the USSR and communism would fall due to an internal revolution.
www.writerswrite.com /journal/sept97/spot2.htm   (1187 words)

  
 Interview with Gordon Cooper (excerpt) - UFO Evidence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Summary: An excerpt of an interview given by former astronaut Gordon Cooper - Mercury 9, Gemini 5 - to OMNI Magazine in 1980, where he is asked about astronaut sightings of UFOs and about his own UFO sighting when he was an Air Force pilot in Germany in the 1950s.
The following is an excerpt of an interview given by former astronaut Gordon Cooper - Mercury 9, Gemini 5 - to OMNI Magazine in 1980.
From my association with aircraft and spacecraft, I think I have a pretty good idea of what everyone on this planet has and their performance capabilities, and I'm sure some of the UFOs at least are not from anywhere on Earth.
www.ufoevidence.org /Newsite/FullText.asp?ID=526   (725 words)

  
 Omni: Virtual delights - Omni magazine online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Some people simply stop in from time to time to read the latest postings; perhaps visit the Omni Reading Room, where archived material from past issues of the magazine is stored; look in on Scot Morris's Games area for a little brain teasing; or browse through Continuum or Antimatter for a particular nugget of information.
Omni's readers are lively, contentious, articulate, individualistic, and gregarious, and all of those qualities are revealed in your online postings and letters to the editor.
In short, Omni Online was created as a virtual house of many intellectual mansions, and the reality is far more than a merely virtual delight.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1430/is_n4_v16/ai_14842447   (780 words)

  
 Cruft: Omni Magazine
Omni was devoted to science, the paranormal, sci-fi/fantasy stories, and technology in general.
Omni Magazine was the Wired Magazine of the 70s & 80s.
Omni Magazine was THE place for the launch of the internet age.
cruftbox.com /blog/archives/001101.html   (1692 words)

  
 Terence McKenna Interview by OMNI Magazine, May 1993
OMNI: You've been called a prophet, madman, the most important visionary scholar in America, a bard of our psychedelic birthright, and more.
OMNI: You've devoted a good part of your life to mapping the DMT and psilocybin terrain.
Drugs are not comfortable, and anyone who thinks they are comfortable or even escapist should not toy with drugs unless they're willing to get their noses rubbed in their own stuff.
deoxy.org /t_omni.htm   (4511 words)

  
 Omni Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The magazine was started by Bob Guccione, founder of Penthouse.
It also featured serious scientificarticles, and was in some ways a precursor to popular science magazines such as Discover Magazine.
However, in its later years, the magazine seemed to become preoccupied with UFOs and the paranormal.
www.therfcc.org /omni-magazine-189097.html   (218 words)

  
 Crow & Raine's UFO Bentwaters Case
For years after the original encounter, the primary witnesses to the strange occurrences at Bentwaters refused interviews, and in the absence of first-person testimony, a number of versions of the story sprang up and were inevitably exaggerated.
In his interview with OMNI contributing editor A.J.S. Rayl, Penniston offered a detailed accounting of his experiences, based on his notes from that night as well as his memory.
OMNI asked David Jacobs, one of the country's leading abduction researchers, to view and comment on the videotape of Penniston's second hypnosis session.
web.ukonline.co.uk /mi6/penniston.html   (5825 words)

  
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In fact, he was actually referring to now-defunct Omni magazine, a science and technology publication long cherished by nerds.
OMNI was a serious magazine and it went out of business because it was so high tec that most people would not expend the brain power required to read it.
Jason Kenny was correct when he assumed the Liberano was spewing on people watching OMNI T.V.; some old Liberano remembered that magazine and came to the 'loose lip 'defense.
westernstandard.blogs.com /shotgun/2005/11/so_good_it_just.html   (1107 words)

  
 -- Ellen Datlow: Interviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
TM: I'm under the impression that you are one of the editors in the field who came to fantastic fiction professionally as an adult, unlike that other set of editors in the speculative fiction field who burned throughout their adolescence to become sf, fantasy, and/or horror movers and shakers.
TM: At Omni, you followed Ben Bova and Robert Sheckley in the position of fiction editor, two men with decades of experience in the field of sf, and found yourself as the short-fiction editor with the largest budget set exclusively for fantastic fiction.
ED: At Omni I worked with many fine new and seasoned writers over the years and was able to provide them with a beautiful and well-paying showplace for their work.
www.datlow.com /interviews/inter02.html   (3031 words)

  
 Jonathan's Shopfront :: OMNI magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
OMNI magazine - Vol.02 #08 - May '80
OMNI magazine - Vol.03 #08 - May '81
OMNI magazine - Vol.04 #08 - May '82
www.btinternet.com /~the.convent/Selling/OMNI_magazine.html   (65 words)

  
 "Soviet Saucers" by James Oberg
Twenty-five years later, with the FOBS rockets long since scrapped and the Soviet regime itself on the scrap heap of history, the now-purposeless deception has maintained a zombielike life of its own.
Continuing the trend of tying now-dead space heroes to UFO studies, the magazine featured two separate interviews with contemporary experts concerning the role played by Sergey Korolev, the founder of the Soviet missile and space programs.
It didn't bother the magazine at all that the two stories were utterly inconsistent.
www.debunker.com /texts/soviet.html   (2673 words)

  
 Story Musgrave 6-time space shuttle astronaut interview by Nina L Diamond of the Omni Magazine | Space Experience   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
OMNI: Would you be surprised if you were contacted by intelligent life from elsewhere in the universe?
OMNI: There are those who believe beings have already made contact, and that the government doesn't want to tell us.
OMNI: At 58, you're the oldest man to have spacewalked, and the second oldest man to have been in space.
www.spacestory.com /omni_part_3.htm   (1620 words)

  
 Magazine Editor OmniVisions Panel
GD: That's true, Ellen, but the SF magazines may be able to survive by the strategy that kept the mammals alive during the dinosaur era: Low Expectations.
A magazine editor who doesn't pay attention to the slush is cutting himself off at the feet.
The problem is, of course that as with any magazine in print no money will be made at first so whoever invests in the\ ezine must have deep pockets and willing to wait for a return on their investment.
www.hourwolf.com /chats/editors_9705.html   (7068 words)

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