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I started RSS-reading with Bloglines and, though it still has some features I like, I moved to Google Reader last year and have been pretty satisfied with it. What's been harder has been managing my blog diet, the number of feeds I read, and the general problems of absorbing so much ephemera. Blog reading takes up an inordinate amount of my time, it seems, even just to glance through the list of

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Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time newsletter reproduced this fascinating document from WWI war hero and poet Siegfried Sassoon, denouncing the conduct of the war at great personal risk. It was originally printed in The Times in 1917.I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the war is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to

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For a variety of reasons, I've decided it's time to find a web host and create my own site. I've been bookmarking pages on web hosting providers for a few years and decided it was time go forward.So, if anyone else is interested, here are some annotated links.Invoke the Lazy WebAbsolutely nothing wrong with asking the hive mind first. The following links from LifeHacker and Ask Metafilter contain

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For a recent paper, I researched the Bureau of Labor's Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. The government uses the codes to ensure consistent statistical and information gathering.As part of my research, I looked up the SOC's tortured history, starting from 1940 till the Office of Management and Budget mandated in 2000 that all governmental departments standardize on it.At the back

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My friend Scott recently posted an elegant appraisal of Charles Dickens' novel Bleak House.As if to mock or confirm Dickens, reality puts forth its case.

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An online game that accompanies a tutorial on Palaeography. Rather a gruesome situation, but the bubbles are a nice touch.

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Mike Shea praises Google Reader and then realizes that maybe absorbing so much ephemera of the moment may not be a good thing.I've long used Merlin Mann's "Probations folder" idea for news feeds, as I find I also like to scarf up new feeds like candy as I surf, only to have a bellyache later in the week when I see 157 new items lying in wait. As a result, I keep my active daily feeds down to an

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From the newsletter that accompanies BBC4 Radio's Thinking Allowed program, hosted by the ebullient Laurie Taylor:Whenever the subject of suicide or attempted suicide comes up in conversation I can be relied upon to describe a piece of research on suicide notes that was published some years ago (even though I’ve tried, I can’t find the exact reference any more).What the researcher had done was

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The Illustration Art blog has two wonderful posts on the great Mort Drucker. This one focuses on how Drucker drew hands, and this one focuses on how he drew and differentiated hair. Tiny tiny things that you don't notice very much as a casual reader of Mad parodies, but take them away, and the experience lessens.

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"This is how I learned to park a Volvo station wagon into a slot 1” longer than a Volvo station wagon, and my mad parallel parking skillz still impress all my friends and neighbors."

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David Apatoff has a lovely, heartbreaking post on his Illustration Art blog about a Polish student imprisoned by the Nazis in Auschwitz, how he fell in love with a fellow prisoner, and what became of them. I don't know where he got the story, but thank the gods that the story still exists.

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I hope I've just solved a nasty nasty problem that had me furious at my computer, myself, my life, and my prospects.I'm working on a new hard drive with a fresh install of Windows XP and have been slowly rebuilding my apps and directories since January.Recently, while working on a critical document for class, and after several hours of labor, Word absolutely refused to save the file to my hard

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The British novelist Jeanette Winterson has maintained a web presence for many years. (She even went to court to protect other writers' privileges when some wanker registered jeanettewinterson.com and refused to release it to her. She won her suit and, of course, no one thanked her for her efforts.) Every month, she posts her latest journalism to the site, a general update column, and a poem

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Datajunkie runs a great series of scans on Steve Ditko's "Beware the Creeper!" series that he created for DC. I actually remember having the first issue but never knew others followed. What I like about this post is the casual examination of Ditko's storytelling style over the series and how it changed when he returned to the character years later. Also, that it's liberally illustrated with scans

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Quixotic is a blog journal I stumbled across recently and it's morbidly fascinating (and by "morbid," I mean fascinated by disease. From what I gather in my skim-reads, the blogger is a woman suffering from cancer for many years, who has relocated to Mexico to undergo more aggressive (and what would be non-legal in the US) treatments. Her post on a tumor that is causing periods of blindness shows

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And the winner with the fewest nays is...

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We're studying classification in my Organization of Information class. One of my classmates shared a link to a posting about arranging and classifying your personal library by the color of the book's spine. The link was from the Design Observer blog (though the site has been unavailable to me recently). This spurred a lot of discussion on the mail list about our own personal methods for

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I've been thinking for awhile about installing a virtual machine product. I want to read this article from the Altiris site to see what they say about the different products.Based on my reading, Msft's Virtual PC is the easiest to set up on a Windows machine, esp if I'll be installing Windows XP. VMWare is the most capable, but the most complicated. Altiris' own software virtualization product

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This Google video shows some amazing illusions worked with a glass-topped coffee table. It reminds me of Slydini's famous trick of snapping a coin through a table. But like the best tricks, it takes something familiar -- a penetration illusion -- and makes you see it fresh.

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From one of Jeanette Winterson's latest columns, this one on why we need poetry:And in the way of things, the memory gets used to being fed something more useful than crossword puzzles, and will deliver you the lines you need, when you need them. Poetry, because it has rhythm and because it is made out of breath, is easy to remember. It fits under the tongue like a slowly dissolving pill, but

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When I was using Lotus Notes years ago and far away, I made these notes to myself of how I was implementing GTD (or at least task management) using Lotus Notes. We'd been forcibly removed from Outlook, which was familiar, to Notes, which was stark and unfriendly.Anyway, here are the notes so I can find them again later:1. Here's a post I wrote years ago on the DavidCo board: http://

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The blog went quiet in November because I decided to once again compete in the National Novel Writing Month competition. I blogged a bit about the comp last year when I dropped out then dropped back in. By then, though, it was too late and I only had about 30-some-thousand words by month's end. I've since learned that this is called the "sophomore slump."This year, I stopped work on the short

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The main theme of these links is recovering or preparing to recover from hard disk failure, inspired by a co-worker's sad experience last week. Most of these links come from the indispensible Lifehacker site (what did we do before Lifehacker??)Recover data from a crashed hard drive - Lifehackerhttp://www.lifehacker.com/software/disk-recovery/recover-data-from-a-crashed-hard-drive-146386.phpAsk

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Catarina.net has a wonderful thread asking people to suggest six-word stories. The lead-off story by Hemingway is poignant, and one of the commenters observes that sad stories seem easier to write in this compressed form. I contributed the history professor story.

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John Sutherland's Guardian article on the contention that some of Shakespeare's worst lines were written the morning after a big drunk is amusing, though it feels kind of rushed into print to fill space on a slow news day. Alhough all of the Macbeth examples were pretty well chosen, it feels as if Sutherland is basing his argument on lines pulled at random from the text; he's making a big

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We were driving through the miles 'n' miles of shopping center near the 70 and 540 intersection. As we drove down the faux Mayberry Main Street blocks of chain stores, I said, "To think, all that was here before was just trees and unproductive land." Pause. Then Liz said, "And now, it's servicing America."For whatever reason, that just cracked me up.

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For a man widely described as a recluse and rarely given to interviews, Alan Moore is all over the place. First with "V for Vendetta" and now with "Lost Girls." This page at Top Shelf Comix links to all or most of the interviews he's been giving since the book's release.Top Shelf reports it's sold out the 1st and 2nd printing, so they're going to a 3rd printing.

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The world without the people who matter to us is not the same world and so not the world at all. Life becomes progressively stranger as we get older - and we become increasingly frantic to keep it familiar, to keep it in order - because people keep changing the world for us by dying out (mourning is better described as orientation, the painful wondering whether it is worth re-placing oneself).

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I blogged about my new Honda Fit earlier this summer. Given that I've seen so few Fits in the Durham area, I felt very pleased that I was the only one on my block with a Fit, and an orange one at that.When Liz and I left the Carolina Theater recently, we walked to the side street where I'd parked the car. (As the offical "new car" in the family, the Fit is the default go-in vehicle for errands

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Part I dealt with how I prepared for the GRE. This is Part II. Flash cards. The best thing I did was create my own flash cards. I used the Princeton Review book as my basis, but any of the books would have done. This made the learning more personal, and I could put page references to the book on the card, in case I needed to refresh my memory. (All of the GRE books seem to not believe in indexes,

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Tremble before my mighty godlike intellect, puny humans....Atlastatlastatlastatlastatlast ... After a week and a half of anxiety-producing study, cramming, and practice tests, I took the GRE General test this morning and received the above preliminary verbal and quantitative scores. (The final scores arrive in a few weeks.) My brain is still throbbing from the effort, but moreso from being

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Mike Shea's latest essay in another in the trend of many of us who are sticking our heads up out of our neatly organized gopher holes to ask, "What was the point again?"I prefer Copernic Desktop myself, but I really liked his very simple rules for computer use. I especially liked this one:Don't customize, optimize, or tinker - the result is never worth the effort.I'm notorious even to myself for

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Stephen Colbert's 2006 Commencement Address at Knox CollegeIn addition to very good advice I learned in my improv class earlier this year, he adds this:I have two last pieces of advice. First, being pre-approved for a credit card does not mean you have to apply for it. And lastly, the best career advice I can give you is to get your own TV show. It pays well, the hours are good, and you are

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Core Dump"At first glance, technical writing and Disney don't seem to have much of a connection, but their rides are complex machines, and they do need manuals. Here's the Standard Operating Procedures for Pirates of the Caribbean from 1975. The page has links to scanned images of the manual."Four Types in ZhurnalWiki"Someone once told me of a military strategist's way to characterize people

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From Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time newsletter on the Mythology of Faeries:Two of the things we missed out this morning might be of interest to you. The first is related from the 13th century chronicle of Gerald of Wales. Gerald of Wales was travelling around Wales preaching the Crusades, and while he did so was chronicling encounters along his way. Fairy mythology tends to track uncertainty, to

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Tricks of the Trade: DishwasherMicrosoft W3rd. Gangsta version of Microsoft WordSpelling poems."Poems showing the absurdities of English spelling."One Hundred Rules for NASA Project Managers

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First Draft - If You Are Looking For A Way To Be Against Gay Marriage: "Because while I love freedom and equality and the rule of law, you know what else I love? Pissing off the sanctimonious. That's the ice cream sundae of my world."[via flutterby, from whom I also stole the title of this post]

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Atheists identified as America’s most distrusted minorityFrom a telephone sampling of more than 2,000 households, university researchers found that Americans rate atheists below Muslims, recent immigrants, gays and lesbians and other minority groups in “sharing their vision of American society.” Atheists are also the minority group most Americans are least willing to allow their children to marry.

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A fantastic collection of shorthand codes for handwritten notes. Although my primary notetaking style is NoteScript, I'm using a lot of tips from this thread as well.

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Since 1994 when I bought it used, I've driven a 1992 Chevy Lumina. I got it with about 78,000 miles on it, and it last week flipped over 200,000. (Today, it's about 220,218.)I've toyed over the years with buying a new or used car, but it never seemed the right time: not enough money, shaky job, no job. Recently, though, my job has proven itself to be steady and supportive and my car has over the

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At the end of Sam Jardison's list of Top 10 books on cults and religious extremists comes this rather startling plot summary:"10. The Bible Eyes of fire, seas of blood, rivers of tears, scarlet beasts, plagues of locusts, pealing trumpets, bottomless pits, mass murder and mayhem. Now this is a crazy book."

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Full-page scans of Superman's first appearance in th 1938 Action Comicsvia Robot Wisdom

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I like reading Poetry Daily (wish it had a proper RSS feed). I'll sometimes print out poems I like and put them in my Poetry folder to pull out and marvel.This poem, by Abraham Sutzkever (translated by Jacqueline Osherow) stopped me in my tracks and reminded me of how poetry differs from prose, how brief poems can open vast spaces.

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...accumulated since Easter......compiled over the last few weeks, as you can tell from the Easterlinks...Flickr Photo Download: SearsWishbook.1983EC.P408Ad for a newfangled CD player from the Sears 1983 wishbookTricks of the Trade: Philosopher"How to win any argument"For those of us who saw "Thank You For Smoking"Career CalculusRecipeSource: French Fry Spam CasseroleTechnotheory.com - Wallet

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Wikipedia's entry on Le Petomane includes this wonderful paragraph:In the following decade Pujol tried to 'refine' and make his acts 'gentler'; one of his favourite numbers became a rhyme about a farm which he himself composed, and which he punctuated with the usual anal renditions of the animals' sounds. The climax of his act however involved him farting his impression of the 1906 San Francisco

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For a man described in many articles about him as a recluse, Uncle Alan sure granted lots of interviews, mainly in reaction to the V for Vendetta movie (which I enjoyed). Here are some links to interviews I collected. Keep in mind, when you read, that Vendetta artist David Loyd supported the film and was a co-creator of the comics series.MILE HIGH COMICS presents THE BEAT at COMICON.com: A FOR

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Shweet. And expen$ive.

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Yep, OK, I'd like one of these in each room of my house, please.

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From the In Our Time newsletter on the Goethe discussion:The talk in the Green Room went on for quite a while. Not unexpectedly. Wefailed to include a great many of the aspects of Goethe that makes GoetheGoethe. On the programme itself I pointed out that we said nothingwhatsoever about his work as a scientist, although it was an area in which hewas frustrated at not being recognised as highly

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Sublime satire -- can't be bettered.

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Courtesy Netflix, I saw Orson Welles' F for Fake, a fascinating document. I saw it, listened to the commentaries, and saw it again. It's a dense, layered, rich lasagna that uses fakery to talk about fakery. It has some bravura editing for the time (1974 or 1976, sources vary) and includes some very personal Wellesian material.The Wikipedia page on F for Fake includes this wonderful passage from

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Enter the amount of tax you paid into the National Priorities Project's interactive tax chart and see.

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Merlin put up a post on the 43folders Board called Real-world "Mission Statements:" What's yours?, wherein he asks people to submit their real mission statements, as opposed to the goody-goody elevate-yourself statements we're always told to write.Mine is reply #11.

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Caterina.net: Power reveals"Power reveals. When a leader gets enough power, when he doesn't need anybody anymore--when he's president of the United States or CEO of a major corporation--then we can see how he always wanted to treat people, and we can also see--by watching what he does with his power--what he wanted to accomplish all along."The Cyborg Name DecoderMine is M.I.C.H.A.E.L.: Mechanical

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You are about to enter the delightfully low-tech world of early recorded sound.Whether you are a newcomer or old-hand to old, old-time recordings, you'll enjoy this voyage into the wonderful sounds of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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Another In Our Time newsletter, this one on Don Quixote (a book I've tried reading a couple of times and just can't get through):Well, James Naughtie has put his foot among the pigeons. How do you pronounce Don Quixote? I pronounced it in the English fashion and had there been any objections from the academics who so sturdily spoke about the knight errant this morning, I would have asked them

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Some of the scholarly chat programs on BBC4 radio have their own newsletters, as most media do nowadays. I enjoy downloading the latest In Our Time program each week and subscribe to host Melvyn Bragg's newsletter, where he adds his own thoughts on that week's topic and provides little scholarly nuggets that didn't make it into the show.It seems a shame not to share some of them, so here's what

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Damn Interesting » Tin Foil Hats Proven IneffectiveShakespearean Insult GeneratorCreating Feeds from Feedless Web PagesMy notes from a demo I gave to a local STC SIGGrand Illustions - Toy Collection - Dragon Illusion"This little dragon is made out of paper - you simply cut it out and stick it together, and stand it on a table or window ledge. But when you move around, the dragon's head seems to

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Here's my first Backpack page that I created for a SIG meeting today. It describes how to create a feed from feedless web pages. It's a nice all-in-one page.Backpack is great for presenting this kind of information and I was quite amazed at how quickly I could produce some nice-looking text modules, reorganize them, and so on. For speed of page creation though, I like my PBWiki a little better.

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Danny Gregory is running a great series on his site called Advertising and its Discontents. This first story, by Trevor Romain about why he left advertising, packs a wallop. We all want to matter.Charity Larrison's story probably reflects the experience of most of us: drifting along, still trying to figure it all out.

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Scott's friend Chrystal has a nicearticle on religious choices. My family is a perfect example of American religious diversity. Two parents had five daughters and, as of this writing, none share a common religion. We have a Catholic, a goddess-worshipping Wiccan, one three-quarters of the way to Buddhist nunhood (complete with shaved head!), one Mormon, and one Unitarian. The final member attends

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For the past decade or more, I've fumbled around for an exercise program I could stick with. Given my size (6'3" and about 215 lbs, as of this writing), I'll need to be strong and flexible as I get older. Otherwise, the nurses helping me out of my elderly bed will have to be pretty strong or have a pulley and gurney handy.Exercise clubs have not worked for me. I like yoga but feel I need more

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I was, for some reason, totally taken by Thomas Limoncelli's book Time Management for System Administrators. (TM4SA, for short).I read the sample chapter he had online here, and bought the book to see what the rest was about. I've picked up and put down many a time management system over the years, starting with Day-Timers and finishing most successfully with David Allen's Getting Things Done

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Earlier this year, Merlin suggested that, instead of resolutions and big efforts, people implement fresh starts and modest changes. Here's the first of three posts about some modest changes I've made that have yielded some good benefits.I've long known that about 70% of my problems would disappear if I just got up a little earlier. I went through a period last month where I was waking earlier

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A kindly someone has posted this BBC Two Alan Moore Interview that was broadcast March 9, 2006. The first few minutes look marvelous. If only YouTube would play the whole thing without dropping out ...

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Ned Batchelder: How to make business card cubesMaking cubes out of business cards is easy, and will impress your friends!Wired News: Work More, Do Less With Tech"Most U.S. workers say they feel rushed on the job, but they are getting less accomplished than a decade ago, according to newly released research."

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Clipmarks | What Is Clipmarks?"Manage the stuff you find on the webWith the Clipmarks toolbar you can clip, tag and save snippets of content from the web, without having to bookmark whole pages. Then sign in to clipmarks.com from any computer to organize your collection."(the clips stay on the clipmarks server, so you don't have to store them locally. a busy ui, potentially useful)Download Free

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This page has been making the rounds of the blogosphere. I like the made-up Simpsons words and many of the other links.But one of my favorite entries not listed here is on Florence Foster Jenkins, which features a sound sample of the woman "who became famous for her complete lack of singing ability." If you have the Rhapsody music service, you can hear the entire album of this very painful

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In my humble opinion, of course. These are from Zeldman's old site, courtesy the Wayback Machine.His new ones are great, too, and are certainly more uniform in size and polished in quality. But that demonic clown and the electric blue trapeze artists just send me.AddendumThe Beauteous Liz reminded me of another set of desktop pictures that appeals to my sensibilities: the Daze of Our Lives

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Perhaps a case of the web answering a question that no one had asked, still, that's a lot of work and one sits on one's ass, impressed to the gills. My personal goddess is Promethea.

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Skinhead Hamlet: Shakespeare's play translated into modern EnglishOur hope was to achieve something like the effect of the New English Bible -- Eds

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This is a page I ran across years ago when Mistress Krista's site was in an earlier stage of development. At the time, I was into lifting weights and trying to find the "right" way to do it. Krista's advice is pragmatic, funny, and no nonsense; she's a great teacher.Here's how she describes the page of pithy quotes and hard-won experience:"Recently, the folks on misc.fitness.weights were asked

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Susie Bright has a lovely blog entry on finding a scrapbook of valentines her mother, Betty Jo, received as a child in the late 1920s-early 1930s. It's a poignant story.Susie has slaved over a hot scanner to create a gallery of these wonderful paper ephemera that hail from a slower, different time, where even the paper goods had quality and charm and sparkle. Trackback

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MERD | Panexa (Acidachrome Promanganate)via

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From NY Times' William Grimes review of the book Beyond Coincidence: The award for the most painful coincidence in recorded history must go to the poet Simon Armitage, who chanced upon a used copy of a book of his poems in a trash bin outside a thrift store. On the title page was the following inscription, in his own handwriting: "To Mum and Dad."via

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Walking along Ninth Street in Durham, or Queen Street in Toronto, or anywhere, we've been approached by vagrants, panhandlers, the lot. They've even knocked on my door and asked for money to help them pay their rent.I'm conflicted. I know I'm a soft touch, and my heart goes out to people who, through bad luck or bad choices, ended up in a place they never expected. There but for the grace of God,

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This Amazon reading guide is essential for the Get Fuzzy fan. It helpfully notes that Get Fuzzy books are divided into "collections" and "treasuries". There are two collections in each treasury.Nice to refer to when building one's Christmas list.

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This has convinced me it's time to join the ACLU. The security paranoia has to stop.viaUpdate 2005-01-06Some good news, according to the papersplease.org site:Not only will Deborah Davis not be prosecuted on charges related to her refusal to show ID on a public bus, but she is now able to travel on the route 100 RTD bus without showing her 'papers.'Deb's lawyer, ACLU volunteer attorney Gail

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Well, sort of. I wrote earlier about retiring from the field when I found the story I was working on uncongenial. But I couldn't get some of the images out of my mind, and I had certain key moments in the long life of the main character appear in front of me as I went about my other chores. I had also promised myself the New Yorker DVD set if I successfully completed nanowrimo. While I always

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Just got a call from a job recruiter for a position that has my name all over it, at the last place I worked as a contractor. It's only an 18-month contract, but it would be more money, fewer hours, and closer to home than the full-time job I have now. God, but it's knotted my gut.

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First, clean off the old PC and prep it for its new owner. I'm giving it to my friend Scott, which makes me de facto tech support. Therefore, I want to include some tools and tricks that may make recovery and troubleshooting easier. Also, there are a few interesting little bits of software and other techniques that I've been wanting to try. No better time like now, when I won't damage anything--

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Up till the middle of last week, I had about 80 blogs on my Bloglines list. Many of them were divided up into Monday, Tuesday, etc. categories, as they didn't update often but I didn't want to miss them. So I'd be able to check them at least once a week. But I found myself obsessing over checking them like I obsess over checking my email. I feel it was severely impairing my workday, my time at

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I was looking forward to it this year, but hit the sand early and never recovered. I started out as I had done last year, with an image, a situation, and then started to run with it. But the material didn't form under my fingers as naturally as last year. I finally switched from a male, first-person narrator to a female, third-person narrator, and that helped a bit. I got several days of writing

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From the NY Times obit of John Fowles.As much as it frustrated some of his readers, Mr. Fowles always believed he had done the right thing by leaving the endings of his most celebrated novels open-ended. But he was not above bending his own rules when the occasion called for it.He once told an interviewer that he had received a sweet letter from a cancer patient in New York who wanted very much

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From Melvyn Bragg's latest In Our Time newsletter:Monica Grady's other mission seems to be to stop her students saying "due to" when they ought to say "owing to" or "because of". She pointed out that in the case of libraries, babies and rent you can use "due to", everything else is "owing to" or "because of".

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Yes, I'm one of the hairpins doing the NaNoWriMo challenge, though I will only use lowercase letters from here on out because those intercapitalizations drive me nuts.Last year, I signed up on October 31st, just for a lark. I wasn't working, nothing was going on, and I thought it would help me pass the time. I emailed my friend Sue in California, also a writer, and said this looked like fun, I

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For those of us who just don't get out enough into the real world...Note that some of these require Shockwave or other plugins to work, and probably a fast connection as well.Carve a pumpkin -- Be sure you wait to see it light upShoot zombies--my personal favoriteScarecrows and ravens (not a terribly easy game to understand, but atmospheric)Turkey ShootLinks courtesy of News from ME and

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During the New PC Blues upgrade process, I ran across a 5.25" floppy disk Liz had used to store files related to a musicology paper she wrote back in 1989 -- well before I came on the scene.Why we hadn't done anything with this diskette before, I don't know. But what to do with it now? Our last two PCs had only 3.5" drives, and the current one has no floppy drives at all. Who needs the things,

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Over at the PigPog site, Michael muses on how to store and retrieve nuggets of information, particularly as it relates to non-fiction writing. I respond in the comments with two tediously long missives that constitute a skimming-off of the shmarty-cream afloat in my brain. (Sorry, been reading too much of the Wikipedia entry on Simpsons neologisms.)

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This item from Merlin's 43Folders blog knocked me for a loop and I took a few examples from the Probations idea and from others in the comments to adjust how my Bloglines feeds are displayed.* First, I always have the option checked that only updated feeds be displayed. When I began editing my list, I was shocked at how many feeds I've subscribed to that haven't updated in months. Out they went.

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The time had come. My last computer had been an HP Pavilion, bought at Circuit City, when Windows Me was the OS of choice. It had 256MB RAM, a 20GB hard drive, and a CD burner, but I'd not upgraded it much beyond adding more RAM. Along the way, we got DSL, a wireless router, file and printer sharing between my desktop and Liz's laptop, an HP all-in-one printer/scanner/copier/fax, several plug-in

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I compiled the following quickie list of paper-writing tips for a co-worker who is taking online classes and has been away from paper-writing for a while. The whole process seemed difficult for her, so these links cover a broad range of items. Some of the links to academic papers at the end of this list may have good clues, especially with selecting thesis statements. I've not vetted all these,

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I had this on my office wall many many years ago, and can't find the source again. But I think I remember it word-for-word:True Work is that which occupies the mind and the heart, as well as the hands. It has a beginning and an ending. It is the overcoming of difficulties one thinks important for the sake of results one thinks valuable. Jacques Barzun

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Mike Shea has a nice list of phrases to be avoided (as well as writing rules from Orwell and Struck & White) here. Among my pet peeves on his list are "on steriods," "think outside the box," and "talk offline." (But I have no idea what "goat rope" refers to.)Herewith, a few of my additions, culled from everyday readings of stuff on the Web:(anything) from hell Even Matt Groening is tired of this

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These are some phrases that have passed my way that have struck me, for whatever reason.constructive noveltyserious fun (a phrase used by one of Liz's professors)productively idle/idly productive (haven't decided which I like better)effortless effortI have a mild idea what some of them mean. "Serious fun" is my favorite.

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I've been using Blogger's Scribe template since I started this thing last year. While I liked the parchmenty feel of the colors, I had two bones to pick with it: ordered lists were always displayed as unordered, and the horizontal rule didn't work, which led me to do stuff like centering three asterisks to set off quotes. So I've been messing about with other templates. Simple II was too simple--

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I've sung the praises of Total Recorder (I'm using it now to record more episodes of In Our Time, and other BBC4 radio shows.)I noticed this procedure I'd put into my old infoindex.doc (I may blog about that file one day), and thought I'd post it here so I'd have it again if I need it in future.I did this last Christmas when porting a local group's Christmas cassette to CD. (You can buy a CD

brownstudyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10333599990012361188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10496568.post-1124935811189499272005-08-24T22:10:00.000-04:002005-08-24T22:15:17.690-04:00

Whilst reading through some collections of old David Allen essays I've culled from his newsletter, I ran across one intriguing nugget that went something like this: Every now and then, take a top-to-bottom inventory of your assets, your processes, your systems. Everything from the shirts in your drawer to the way you pay your bills and so on.As I moved through my routines, I evaluated what

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