12 month ago
Simon Willison : journa-list.com - journa-list.com. Fantastic new site that indexes UK news stories by the person who wrote them. Being able to track a journalist’s output like this makes it much easier to figure out their personal biases over time.
philgyford : Journa-list.com - Like my Byliner.com but more comprehensive (yay) but only for UK newspapers (aww) and with higher ideals (yay).
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16 month ago
Khoi Vinh : New York Magazine: The Minister of Information - Profile article on Edward Tufte.
gleuschk : 'Beautiful Evidence' Author Edward Tufte and the Triumph of Good Design -- New York Magazine - only wish the graphs at the end were enlargable
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17 month ago
gleuschk : Jonathan Lethem, Richard Posner, and others reveal their favorite fonts. - - Slate Magazine - it's important to have a favorite font.
jimray : Writers do it with 12pt Courier - Slate asked a bunch of professional writers to pick their fave font, an alarmingly high number picked Courier
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20 month ago
jimray : The big question - We asked 100 writers and thinkers to answer the following question: Left and right defined the 20th century. What's next?
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20 month ago
deusx : Neatorama - Blog Archive - The Naked Truth: Authors Who Write in the Buff. - "Victor Hugo ... concocted a unique scheme to force himself to write: he had his servant take all of his clothes away for the day and leave his own nude self with only pen and paper, so he’d have nothing to do but sit down and write."
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23 month ago
Linkorama : Wordie - Like Flickr, without the photos
Rod Begbie : Wordie - "Like Flickr, without the photos". Make lists of words. Pointless and lovely. [via] #
jkottke : Wordie is "like Flickr, but without the photos" - Wordie is "like Flickr, but without the photos". "Wordie lets you make lists of words -- practical lists, words you love, words you hate, whatever. You can then see who else has listed the same words, and talk about it." Lots of people love schadenfreude. [via]
jimray : Wordie - "Like Flickr, but without the photos" Fucking hilarious!
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24 month ago
jimray : Ghosts in the Machines - Neil Gaiman on the things that haunt. "Fear is a wonderful thing, in small doses."
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24 month ago
jkottke : Wired asked some prominent writers to pen their own six word stories - Following the lead of the Six Word Story group on Flickr and Caterina's prompt, Wired asked some prominent writers to pen their own six word stories. "Hemingway once wrote a story in just six words ('For sale: baby shoes, never worn.') and is said to have
jimray : Wired collects six word stories from a bunch of scifi writers - Easy. Just touch the match to
Aquarion : Wired 14.11: Very Short Stories - Six word stories by people like Joss Whedon, Neil Gaiman and other famous people.
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jimray : Robert Christgaue joins Morning Edition - From The Village Voice to NPR? Oddly, not that strange a fit, really
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24 month ago
jimray : Writing resources from Chuck Palahniuk - Hey, Resh! Man, I owe you a phone call or at least an email...
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25 month ago
veen : Interview with John Hodgman, the PC from those "Get a Mac" ads - Engadget - " I am first of all: not a computer, but a human being; and second of all: a Mac user, almost exclusively, since 1984. There was a brief period in the wilderness between 1997 and 2003. Let us not speak of it."
jimray : Interview with John Hodgman, the PC from those "Get a Mac" ads - Engadget - Wow, the guy that did Junebug is doing the new Apple ads?
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26 month ago
merlinmann : The Writing Life - Quirks and Idiosyncrasies of Famous Writers - "William Faulkner loved the early 1960s TV program Car 54, Where are You? Having no TV of his own, each Sunday night he watched it at a neighbor’s home."
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29 month ago
jimray : Seven Ways to Inject Suspense into Your Novel
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29 month ago
jkottke : Playboy lists the 25 sexiest novels ever written - Playboy lists the 25 sexiest novels ever written. I've read only 2 of the 25: Lolita and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. Probably a little NSFW.
jimray : The 25 Sexiest Novels Ever Written - According to Playboy anyway
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29 month ago
jimray : Interview with Deadwood's David Milch
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32 month ago
gleuschk : gladwell.com - the bloggers' pet columnist now also a blogger
merlinmann : gladwell.com - So far no kitty photos, drunken confessions, or "johari windows." Might take him a while to get a handle on the medium. (Watch this space.)
jimray : Malcolm Gladwell has a blog
Linkorama : gladwell.com - malcom gladwell blogs
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32 month ago
jimray : NPR : Mitch Hurwitz, Creator of 'Arrested Development'
deusx : NPR : Mitch Hurwitz, Creator of 'Arrested Development' - "Mitch Hurwitz is the creator and executive producer of the TV series Arrested Development."
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34 month ago
jimray : A Million Little Lies - The Smoking Gun thinks James Frey's 'A Million Little Pieces' was fabricated
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34 month ago
jimray : Wonkette's Sex Change - Ana Marie is leaving the blog behind to be a full time writer, which is kinda sad. I hope her novel writing gets better, as I've not heard a single good thing about Dog Days.
jkottke : Ana Marie Cox leaves Wonkette to write books full-time - Ana Marie Cox leaves Wonkette to write books full-time.
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35 month ago
gleuschk : Manifesto - A press release from PRKA. By George Saunders - People Reluctant To Kill for an Abstraction
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gleuschk : Douglas Adams - A Compendium.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 1400 pages, 8 novels, half a dozen stories.... on the web
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36 month ago
jkottke : Paul Ford and alter-ego Gary Benchley in the NY Times - Paul Ford and alter-ego Gary Benchley in the NY Times. Paul Ford. Gary Benchley.
gleuschk : Paul Ford and alter-ego Gary Benchley in the NY Times - "big-bellied"? "shabby"? Good thing they like the book.
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36 month ago
gleuschk : Amazon.com : What It Is I'm Doing, I Think, by George Saunders - last GS link, I promise
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37 month ago
gleuschk : The Morning News - George Saunders, by Robert Birnbaum - pretty fun reading, though the introduction almost stole the show
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