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deusx : Schneier on Security: The Future of Ephemeral Conversation - "In the end, this is cultural. The Internet is the greatest generation gap since rock and roll. We're now witnessing one aspect of that generation gap: the younger generation chats digitally, and the older generation treats those chats as writt
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Richard Rutter : Classy comeback - Jon Tan responds in kind to Joe Clark.
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Richard Rutter : Classy comeback - Jon Tan responds in kind to Joe Clark.
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Greg Storey : "...anyone who touches copy can make a difference by insisting that every chunk of text on the site is doing something concrete." - On writing.
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gleuschk : Advice to a Young Mathematician - from Atiyah, Bollobas, Connes, McDuff, Sarnak
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1 month ago
deusx : Epeus' epigone: Not consumers or users, but amateurs - "We already have a word for people who create for the love of it, rather than being paid to, and it is 'amateurs'. As with many other pleasures, when we seek out opinions, we prefer those that flow from passion rather than from payment. No
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2 month ago
deusx : Kung Fu Monkey: THIS is Why I'm Not Answering Your Goddam Phone Calls - "The script for Episode #113 was completed this morning at roughly 8 am. Two episodes written in two weeks, without a staff. And yes, that is Scotch. And no, I don't have a problem. I waited until 10 am. "
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deusx : Charlie's Diary: On finishing - "I'm feeling pretty weird right now; I've just finished a novel."
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deusx : Mark Bernstein: Coover Links - "Consider Coover Links — links in which the start of a sentence lies in one side of the link while the end of the sentence lies at the other. Coover links are named for Robert Coover, the author of a short hypertext “Heart Suit” (McSweeney’s
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deusx : The sentences of Sarah Palin, diagrammed. - By Kitty Burns Florey - Slate Magazine - "I had to give up. This sentence is not for diagramming lightweights. If there's anyone out there who can kick this sucker into line, I'd be delighted to hear from you. To me, it's not English—it's a collection of words strung t
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Greg Storey : Bradley. - A very touching story. One that hits too close to home. Probably for most of us.
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2 month ago
Greg Storey : "One day, Steve Jobs is going to die." - Fantastic lead.
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2 month ago
Linkorama : How to write in plain English - by Harvard School of Public Health
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3 month ago
deusx : 5 Reasons why you don't need to write a book » Brazen Careerist by Penelope Trunk - "People ask me all the time how they can get a book deal. So I had my agent write a post on how to get a book deal. But really, I'm telling you, you probably don't need to write a book. Every time I ask someone why they want to write a book
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3 month ago
deusx : Tinderbox: from Michael Bywater - "You put this stuff in without any plan, yet, like all good atoms, they form themselves into molecules."
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4 month ago
deusx : Warren Ellis » On Teleportation - "Teleportation should be a matter of simply proving you’re somewhere else."
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4 month ago
philgyford : Secrets of book publishing I wish I had known - Good Experience - Nice clear description of having a book published. Even if you have a publisher, you're on your own. (via Kottke)
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4 month ago
philgyford : Seth's Blog: Advice for authors - More advice for when you're having a book published.
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5 month ago
deusx : WisCon - The World's Leading Feminist Science Fiction Convention - "WisCon encourages discussion and debate of ideas relating to feminism, gender, race and class. WisCon welcomes writers, editors and artists whose work explores these themes as well as their many fans"
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5 month ago
deusx : shock: social science fiction - "Shock: Social Science Fiction is a fiction game of culture and future shock"
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5 month ago
deusx : 826michigan - "If you have happened by 826michigan lately, you may have noticed that we have had people working on our robot store seven days a week, all hours of the day and night."
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5 month ago
deusx : O'Reilly Author and Editor Air Concerns on Industry Pressures - Tools of Change for Publishing - "I'll organize my comments under three categories: unpredictable time commitments, external market pressures, and staff responses. I've run these comments by Baron."
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5 month ago
deusx : Backup Brain - "A big problem I have with these sort of blog posts, though, is that too many of them ... are written after one book, or one editor, or one publishing company. ... and you really can't extrapolate anything meaningful from a single data point."
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5 month ago
deusx : The Prose Medium and IF « Emily Short’s Interactive Fiction - "Words in interactive fiction individually carry more weight than they carry in static prose, if only because of the amount of attention we demand the player give to each one."
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deusx : FreakAngels » Interlude 02 - "I flood my poor ageing head with information. Any information. Lots of it. And I let it all slosh around in the back of my brain, in the part normal people use for remembering bills, thinking about sex and making appointments to wash the dishes.&quo
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