January 2011
14 posts
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“Bollocks to a world in which all conversation is shorn of its private context....”
– Charlie Brooker: We shouldn’t have to feel paranoid about snoops listening in to everything we say | Comment is free | The Guardian
Amen, Chuck!
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“And if someone questions your commitment because you chose to watch X Factor or...”
– This is some of the best writing advice I’ve read, at least on a blog (and I do recommend this blog for any fellow writers out there).
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Two spaces after a period: Why you should never,... →
THANK YOU (this is one of my greatest pet peeves when editing).
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irvinebrown » Music for Shuffle →
This is a ridiculously awesome idea. I think as the CD goes the way of the dinosaur, more and more things like this will start to crop up.
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redking:
while not a scientist, I am nevertheless writing two PhD proposals for Berlin: - incorporating notions of suicide/domestic terrorism in American media since 2001; - mercantilization and privatization of American non-governmental militaries, the notion of permanent control over low-intensity conflict zones and the failure of conventional power projection in 21st century battlescapes
all...
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“Write drunk; edit sober.”
– Ernest Hemingway (via tarrinj)
Honestly, those two can be reversed, what matters is that only one of them is done sober.
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What's Your "Fab 15"? →
azspot:
“Fab 15″ Rules: List fifteen authors, fiction or nonfiction, including poets, playwrights, and screenwriters, who have influenced you and will always stick with you.
Make your list in no more than fifteen minutes!
I like this idea very much - especially when procrastinating.
Hermann Hesse
Ayn Rand
Carl Sagan
Charles Bukowski
Bertrand Russell
Simone de Beauvoir
Haruki Murakami
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Some people are moody.
butthetruthis:
But the truth is…
They’re not moody. They’re just immature. They only act right when things are going their way.
Photo by: http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewrennie/3256026273/
I really, really wish I could time travel back to my High School Self and tell her this.
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