National Novel Writing Month – My Novel:
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Isn’t this timely for National Novel Writing Month?
n. the first rough version of a piece of writing. So-called because the words pour onto the page unhindered and unrefined. Categories: English, Arts & Literature, Slang. Citations, subject labels, comments, and more information about vomit draft are available at Double-Tongued Word Wrester.
links for 2006-11-04
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on a related note, did you know that Florence Nightingale was also and perhaps better-known as a mathematician for her work in statistics?
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“So the very next day, you know what I did? I called the superintendent of that school district. And that bus driver no longer works for that school. ” Fact is, the district had already made the call. Liar.
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“Finally, he talks a bit about gDisk which provides a nice way to use some of your Gmail quota space as file storage.”
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homemade large-format enlarger: simple but effective design, great results. I am thinking of a horizontal system and this looks like a great starting point.
break it up
Weekend physical computing DIY: Strip an inkjet printer for parts:
Old: When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
New: When you have a micro-controller, everything looks like parts.
inkjet printers being a common item on my local FreeCycle list, perhaps I should start breaking them for salvage and resale.
how pictures are made
I was looking at the flickrtools site and saw the Hockneyizer. Interesting idea . . .
Originally uploaded by paulbeard.
links for 2006-11-02
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“Where should [the funding] come from? One obvious candidate is the Pentagon budget, now devoted to defending us against dangers considerably less threatening than climate change.”
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Federal funding spawns new industries that more than offset the initial costs. But then you knew that already, right?
links for 2006-11-01
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american democracy is what’s delaying Iraqi democracy? Only from the warped mind of Dick Cheney
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file me under cheap, lazy, and otherwise reluctant.
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can’t tell if they admire or deplore this idea. I think it’s pretty clever, so long as it’s accurate and doesn’t generate false positives, ie wrongly blame the customer.
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a rich mixture of tragedy and humor
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eep!
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Alive? Hmm, they’re trading at over US$80 and the holiday buying season — historically a good time for them — has yet to start. Should be interesting to watch.
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Imagine living in a town where, if you want to buy a cup of coffee or get a hamburger, you have to go to a church.
links for 2006-10-30
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That’s quicksand, that ain’t mud.
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If the Greedy Old Perverts retain control for another two years, what will they do? If the slim margin of 2004 was a “mandate” what will a passing grade in the midterms empower them to do?
links for 2006-10-29
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“But despite the casualness of our initial procedure, it has NOT gone off, vinegarified, or done anything else it shouldn’t have.”
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someone who knows what he’s talking about discusses the nature of SF as a genre. haven’t read it but perhaps it further dismantles my biases.
a banner for the leaderless?
Pharyngula: A logo for the godless: an impossible assignment?:
Norwegianity has put out a request to design an appropriate logo for all of us godless heathen bloggers. There’s a certain religious deathcult that uses an instrument of torture as its immediately recognizable logo—it’s very simple, clean, easy to draw, and they’ve made it their own. You see one of those things on a website or on a necklace and you instantly know to a very rough approximation the predilections of the owner. Why can’t we have something like that?
My take on this, amplifying some stuff in comments as well as some thoughts of my own:
♫ = earth (for earthling: sorry about the cross).
☉ = sun, also apropos.
☼ = sun (a variant)
â—¯ = large circle.
㊷ – no comment
☄ = where did we come from anyway?