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• Tips and Tricks for Distraction-Free Writing
  via Lifehack.org
  (tags: writing)
• Sun to fork out $1 billion for open-source firm MySQL
  via CNET News.com Tech news blog — well shit, didn’t see that one coming
  (tags: MySQL news)
• How to Meet and Defeat Long Emails
  via LifeHacker; re: “the tricky situation” at the end of the article — just tell the truth (”Sorry, I must have missed that part. Try XYZ instead…”)
  (tags: lifehacks essay todo email)
• More House Salads, Whether the House Likes It or Not - New York Times
  via NYT (via TreeHugger): “Hot dogs, French fries and onion rings have not been banished, though trans fats have left the premises.”
  (tags: food environment news essay todo)
• How to Write a Novel in Two Months
  via Ecstatic Days (Jeff VanDerMeer’s blog) (via B^2) — GOLDMINE!!
  (tags: writing essay todo)

We work all night.  We dig ditches and tunnels, pitch tents, put up lean-tos and shanties, stretch out tarps…  Anything to protect ourselves.  There is some scuffling over what exactly is the best approach.  But there isn’t time enough to come up with a perfect plan.  Just a good one.  And we barely make it in time.  The rain comes.  The warm, sticky, creamy rain of alfredo sauce.  And strands of pasta.  And strips of chicken.