Will tablets kill PCs? Daniel Lemire thinks tablets more than satisfy the mainstream (non-techie) user’s needs. Jeff Atwood opines about his spiffy new ultraportable laptop, which is everything he wanted in a laptop 10 years ago. A great animation showing the secret law of page design harmony (scroll down). The oldest self-help book: a 19th-century American [...]
This is why the potential is always there for me to get nothing done. Here are some of the top links that caught my eye from today’s Arts & Letters Daily and Marginal Revolution sites. I could have spent a happy hour reading all of them, but I decided to confine them to my Readability [...]
The History of Outlining The “Victorian laptop” (hat tip to Taking Note) Straining the soup ever more thinly. Haven’t we said all that there needs to be said about the Pythons? Haven’t they done other work in their long careers? I’d much rather see brand new reissues of the Big Red Book and Brand New [...]
One of my favorite writing sites is by England-based sitcom writer James Cary and called, appropriately, “Sitcom Geek”. What I love about his posts are his practical and serious thoughts on the business of conceiving and writing situation- and character-based comedy (as opposed to sketch or standup comedy). Here’s his latest post, echoing the feelings/advice [...]
Steve reviews Robert Graves’ The Anger of Achilles, and finds more ways to say that Graves is one can short of a six-pack than I could imagine. Bookshelf Porn: “A collection of all the best bookshelf photos for people who *heart* bookshelves.” The illustrated guide to a PhD. Check out the other articles on his [...]