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David Foster Wallace – whose memory I trust will live on as one of prodigious talent and unique wit– was found dead in his home by his wife. He was 46. DFW was a hero to me, a young author who moved fluidly with words through our ill landscape of postmodernity. For every grammatical or […]
Writer David Foster Wallace found dead via Los Angeles Times (via a Tweet from jhenry): E-FUCKING-GADS! this is absolutely crushing. Moving Toward Manual Settings: Understanding Basic Daylight Exposure and Equivalent Exposure Evolutionists Flock To Darwin-Shaped Wall Stain via The Onion 10 Everyday Technologies That Can Change the World Va. Supreme Court Strikes Down State’s Anti-Spam […]
Superstitions evolved to help us survive at New Scientist (via /.) San Fran Hunts For Mystery Device On City Network via Slashdot Looking for Love In All the Right Alleles via Wired Science from Wired.com What Is Woodward’s ‘Secret Weapon’ in Iraq? via Danger Room from Wired.com ‘Galactic internet’ proposed via Nature News (via B²) […]
5 Clever Ways To Keep Your Muse On Speed Dial via Write to Done: #1 & #2 are totally clutch ideas Who’s Your Favorite Movie President? (Part II: Fictional but Visionary) at Armchair Commentary: Michael Douglas' "Andrew Shepherd", all the way China sets dates for space launch at BBC NEWS (via /.) The Google Navy […]
Extreme Macro Photography on a budget by Photocritic via LifeHacker 10 Tools for Running Stats Tracking in WordPress Use a command-line AirPort tool Mac OS X Hints via Macworld FancyZoom meet jQuery via Ordered List ("We Make The Web Beautifully Simple") :: neat!! Write to Done via Zen Habits
Marginal Revolution: Walter Benjamin’s tips for writing XIII tips to keep the pen moving… Things → Sign In Accompanying website…? UPDATE: Except – you know – totally unrelated to the Things I already have set up on my computer. Loss Of Sleep, Even For A Single Night, Increases Inflammation In The Body Science Daily: …losing sleep […]
Authonomy via B^2: a crowdsourced slushpile? 6 Questions to Ask Yourself to Get the Most Out of Life via zenhabits.net: Am I pursuing my dream, or is fear stopping me? SF Magazines: Format Shift via Warren Ellis: mostly posting for John (as a way to keep our discussion going on this subject…) Facebook and the […]
How to Master the Writing Process at Writing Forward 10 Geeky Movies to Raise Your Kids On via Geekdad from Wired.com Mangobot: The Yellow Peril, Fu Manchu, and the Ethnic Future at io9 (via B^2): "Asian cultural markers are often used as shorthand for the future," says Claire Light, an Asian-American science fiction writer. Light […]
Don’t Think, Just Write at Writing Forward Ten Futures Canon releases 50D, Swiss Army Knife 18-200mm lens Ryan Brenizer's Amazon Blog :: I'm curious about this 18-200mm lens… Jump Because 10 Principles of the CSS Masters
iPhone events via QuirksBlog (via DF): need to finish reading — but the short version appears to be that there is a paradigm shift taking place here b/c the "old fashioned" predictable contiguous behavior of the mouse cursor is totally violated by the iPhone's discontiguous touch-based interface (so much for "onMouseOut") The Impotence of Proofreading […]