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The Last Novel
Designer name to come Today’s question: how would you design a jacket for a novel that desperately, aggressively, willfully tries not to be a novel – a book that “does away with most narrative conventions – plot, colorful characters, dramatic conflict,” using instead “a collage of very short anecdotes, apocryphal legends, aphorisms, (and) lurid gossip…run(ning) …
It’s Dollman Monday!
Good use of a phallic symbol for this cover of the comic featuring the story “Dollman fixes a Crook’s Goose”. Say, whaa?!?!? (click for a closer look) It’s Dollman Monday!
Best of May/June 2007
Every month we take a look around and select some of the most interesting web-development-related web-sites. We read articles, check out tools, analyze the advantages of new resources. Below you’ll find useful references, tutorials, services, tools, techniques and articles we’ve found over the last 60 days – an overview of web-sites you shouldn’t have missed …
Book of the week: Hollywood screenwriter trilogy
In a previous post, I mentioned how I like to read about and study Hollywood because it makes my own industry look sane and rational. The people who create and run television shows and films cope with a level of chaos and randomness that would cause most high-tech entrepreneurs I know, myself included, to switch …
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Worse than Viruses
Public computer surfaces are reservoirs for methicillin-resistant staphylococci. The role of computer keyboards used by students of a metropolitan university as reservoirs of antibiotic-resistant staphylococci was determined. Putative methicillin (oxacillin)-resistant staphylococci isolates were identified from keyboard swabs following a combination of biochemical and genetic analyses. Of 24 keyboards surveyed, 17 were contaminated with staphylococci that …
Why Choose This Book?
I began by exposing the myth that imprecision, slowness, and noisiness are liabilities of brain function, “bugs” in computers. That is from Read Montague’s new and notable Why Choose This Book?: How We Make Decisions, an in-depth look at neuroscience and the brain. Why Choose This Book?
Incidentally, it’s always seemed a bit curious to me that given what the Americans say they owe to the Separatists and the Pilgrim Fathers, and indeed it could be proved that they owe a great deal, the English are so often the villains and while we have people in America happy to be Afro-Americans and …
Zen Again
I happened to see Al Gore being interviewed (very briefly) and he mentioned Zen. So, I thought it was time to put my thoughts on Zen up one more time. All You Need to Know About Zen. Zen Again
Google File Search
Web pages are useful, but if you’ve ever wanted to find a specific file on the web, you noticed it’s not very easy. Fortunately, search engines like Google could be used for this tricky task. Sometimes people create a web site, put some files in a directory, but forget to add an index file. So …
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