+1,760 = 40,632 of 50,000 (81.26%)
Just under 10,000 words to go.  Long week, what with all that was in it and writing on top of that.  But there was some good material in there—quite a bit that would survive the cut into the second draft, and more…
“Animated GIFs aren’t just throwbacks—they’re uniquely suited to some very contemporary modes of cultural consumption, and they perform distinct functions that other formats can’t.†– Jonah Weiner (in Slate Magazine), “Christina Hendrick…
A local hero, running for election. He is young and single, but he is half-retarded–some kind of Big City village idiot of the proletariat. We join our Local Hero and his brother and sister and brother-in-law as they set up for the first big speech of the campaign. It’s at an open air market. Market […]
+1,915 = 38,872 of 50,000 (77.74%)
Stutters and stops-and-starts, but overall some decent output. Â Good action, introducing an interesting twist. Â Got things set up well for the next writing session, too. Â A few breadcrumb notes to put me back on co…
+1,744 = 36,957 of 50,000 (73.91%)
Grinding.  Getting words out.  Tough to slog through it tonight but I made it.  Tomorrow night’s will be better, I’m thinking—set things up for some action.  Get creative.  Get risky.
TSA Success Story blog at izs.me—glad to see that someone is having some success resisting (tagged: TSA politics ) Browser CSS hacks by Paul Irish—a comprehensive list of browser-specific CSS hacks: I don't use CSS hacks anymore. Instead I use IE's conditional comments to apply classes to the body tag. ¶ Nonetheless, I wanted to […]
Quipsologies: Vol. 47 | No. 98
+1,733 = 35,213 of 50,000 (70.43%)
My favorite sentence in this project so far came out of tonight’s writing:
And the whole city congeals together in its motley mass, a patchwork of everything unknown the week before bolted atop the best well-plotte…
CSS Positioning 101 by Noah Starks, at A List Apart (tagged: CSS position webdev ) EPIC v. DHS (Suspension of Body Scanner Program) at EPIC: Searches are reasonable if they escalate in invasiveness only after a lower level of screening discloses a reason to conduct a more probing search. EPIC argued that the TSA’s body […]