Tuesday, April 12th, 2011
I have lately been enjoying a blog by Austin, TX artist/writer Austin Kleon, and have been happily plundering his archives for posts on sketching, storytelling, art, and the like.
I was charmed by this post: Writing The Fibonacci Sonnet. It's a neat little writing trick that uses the Fibonacci numbers (1,1,2,3,5,8, ...
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Saturday, August 21st, 2010
"The truth is dancers and musicians live in two different worlds."For academic writers, the Rule of 200. Writing 200 words/day is rather like writing for 15 minutes/day -- it sets an objective, emotionally neutral goal. Getting that first draft squeezed out is most important; quality can be layered in later. ...
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Sunday, July 12th, 2009
James Fallows on the China Xinjiang / Uighur controversy: "The point about separate fact-universes is one of the sobering marvels of the modern info-age. It's true within the United States, as discussed long ago here; and it's true between countries, as China, Turkey, and the rest of the world all ...
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Sunday, March 29th, 2009
"A comparison of the 2008 population — using data from a variety of sources — with the first census in 1881 shows that the number of Cocks has shrunk by 75 per cent..." Read the rest for the context.
How to e-mail a professor. They may not notice, but then again, ...
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Monday, February 23rd, 2009
Haunting poem.
Leddy on academic entitlement.
Why I don't use "lol" in emails. Example 2 is the killer.
Brooks on the benevolent power of institutional thinking.
Have you ever wondered what would happen if a nuclear bomb goes off in your city? Wonder no more with the Ground Zero Calculator. [via Librarian of Fortune]
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