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I’ve been publishing this blog for almost three years and I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a difference in approaches in covers for the US and UK markets. US is on top, UK on the bottom. And here’s a link to the Guardian UK review so that you can begin to try to figure …

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I’ve spend quite a bit of time over the years talking about the importance of making decisions, and how to keep to them. And today I want to return to the subject. One of the problems most of us face is that we are so busy dealing with everyday decisions that we never take the time …

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The Trikke is a machine you ride and propel by wiggling your body in a way that’s Zen training on three wheels. It puts into direct use the conservation of angular momentum – if you carry a mass through a turn around a center with a radius that decreases while you’re turning, then your linear …

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The underused caret (shift + 6) is an excellent tool for managing file versions. If you’ve got several versions of a file to track and no full-blown version control system to use, just append the caret and a version number to the file name. Tech site WorldStart.com explains that this method of versioning makes it …

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Found some old sketches in the HP character file while I was waiting for the scanner to scan some designs we’re working on for the kid show gig. These go back a few years. In order: Harmony, Fibby, Chako, Royce.  Some Old Hectic Planet Sketches

Teppo Alexandre Petrov has created a short film of Shmelev’s My Love (1927). Here’s the trailer; visually rather stunning, oil painted on glass.  Here’s a review.  Here’s an interview, from last week.  Here’s the wiki entry. weekend link: petrov trailer and interview

Editions of Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy often have excessively small print.  Why?  The major works by those authors are long.  Larger print will make the volumes too long and thus too expensive.  Perhaps more importantly the volumes will appear too forbidding to the average buyer. But isn’t miniscule type for Raskolnikov hard to read?  Ah…most of …

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