Tenth of December author George Saunders in conversation with his Random House editor, Andy Ward. At Slate Magazine. I wish I had an editor like this. (tagged: editing writing ) Are People Being Unfair to the House Republicans? Over at The Atlantic, Molly Ball interviews the recently resigned Rep. Steve LaTourette (R) about the House […]
Requiem in the Key of Prose By Jake Kerr, at Lightspeed Magazine. Read this. 100% A+ ★★★★★. Seriously, one of the best bits of short fiction I’ve read all year. (tagged: fiction ) The Dog That Voted and Other Election Fraud Yarns Kevin Drum, writing at Mother Jones: Still, Republicans argue, anyone can obtain a […]
In-wall USB charger is as cheap as it is ingenious at Engadget — so cool (tagged: USB power charger energy blog ) One Million Years of Isolation: An Interview with Abraham Van Luik at BLDGBLOG (via B²) — re: Yucca Mountain (great images and interesting discussion) (tagged: design science future history environment nuclear energy architecture […]
Re my own writing: this is kind of vindicating and kind of disheartening:
superuseless superpowers via kottke (tagged: humor comic parody ) Beautiful Code Documentation at Ajaxian: It's true. Typography does matter. (tagged: javascript typography documentation ) Productivity: How Cory Doctorow Gets Writing Done via LifeHacker (tagged: writing lifehacks productivity GTD editing ) Zimbabwe to print first $100 trillion note – CNN.com via B²: better unload those Gippers […]