By David Markson, fun, fun, fun. Excerpt: Curiously impressed by the fact that Auden paid everyone of his bills – electric, phone, whatever – on the same day that it arrived. Or: We evaluate artists by how much they are able to rid themselves of convention.Said Richard Serra. Is this a novel or a book …
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Reading Comics
Designer name to come Fans of comics and graphic novels will have to tell the rest of us if vertical text is commonly used in those media – I just don’t know. The use of primary colors plus black and white works very nicely here, and the eye on the left is a great addition …
Ever More Useful Stuff
The other day when I wrote a post about free software, Charles left in the comment section a link to a list of programs for academics which he wrote. Charles’s list is even better than the aforementioned wiki, and contains references to audio, reference, RSS readers, …well the list goes on and on. Check it …
The critic as the handmaiden of Google
What are critics good for anyway? I look for one main piece of information from a review: is the name of the product or artist worth Googling? Yes or no. That is a binary decision. Once I have the answer to that question I usually stop reading the review. I look for one main piece …
nowMap: Half-A4 Template (With areas for Notes and Wins)
Latest Update: I’ve attached the original OpenOffice Draw file to the bottom of the page now, too, so people can modify it for different paper sizes and such like. This is a template for nowMaps – quick visual overviews of what’s on your mind. To find out what a nowMap is, and how to use …
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Xenía in D.C.
Last month’s news but still worth thinking about: It started about midnight on June 16 when a group of friends was finishing a dinner of marinated steaks and jumbo shrimp on the back patio of a District of Columbia home. That’s when a hooded man slid through an open gate and pointed a handgun at …
nowMap: Full A4 Templates
Latest Update: I’ve attached the original OpenOffice Draw files to the bottom of the page now, too, so people can modify these for different paper sizes and such like. This is a template for nowMaps – quick visual overviews of what’s on your mind. To find out what a nowMap is, and how to use …
It’s Dollman Monday!
Zooooooom! The Dollman with a big, big plane between his legs–big for The Dollman, anyway–heads straight for his gape-mouthed bald-headed vilain–The Undertaker! (click for a closer look)It’s Dollman Monday!
Leading journals reject Word 2007 files – ZDNet UK
If you were happy to find that the new Office 2007 equation editor is a lot more like LaTeX, and that equations didn’t look as bad in Word as before, think again. Microsoft is pushing a proprietary markup language (OOXML) that clashes with what Nature and Science own typesetters use, so they will simply reject the paper. This might be a …
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