August 2011
1 post
July 2011
6 posts
What the hell have I been doing?
Not much. If I was in a holding pattern in June, I ground to a halt in July. Maybe it’s grief, maybe it’s too many small changes, maybe it’s just summer doldrums. It’s probably all of those things, but it’s long past time for me to get my feet back under me and get back to work. I haven’t been around the internet much. I’ve needed some time alone, as it...
Ed Norton in talks to play 'Bourne' villain -... →
“There is simply no evidence to support the claims that these shoes will help...”
– Phys Ed: The Science of Toning Shoes - NYTimes.com
“There is no purpose in “reading” The Great Gatsby unless you...”
– Gatsby without greatness - Roger Ebert’s Journal
“The paintings that made people happy were simple, positive and calm. But they...”
– Wray Herbert: The Psychology Behind Interest (and Beach Reads)
June 2011
10 posts
“Christ, if writers were truly compelled to write, you’d probably see a lot less...”
– Strangling Mermaids: More Writing Myths That Need To Die
“I was on a panel with Alastair Reynolds, Tony Ballantyne and literary agent John...”
– Putting the Gender in Genre
Confessions of a technophobe: Open House Day 29 - Ian Whates
“Whatever they saw that they thought was ‘R,’ we didn’t want to cut. So I don’t...”
– Guillermo del Toro’s Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark: Too Scary for the MPAA? | Movieline
Engaging Beer Mythology | Neuromarketing →
Featuring a very cool ad from Sapporo.
Sport doctors say non-alcoholic wheat beer boosts... →
“In the movies the writer is just the servant, the employee. In television, the...”
– Salman Rushdie says TV drama series have taken the place of novels | Books | The Observer
(Actually, that headline is pretty misleading. Rushdie is saying that at the moment he doesn’t have a novel in the works and that he’s impressed with the quality of television. Not that one is...
“I got to wondering how “M’s” culture felt about the supernatural. Primarily this...”
– Black Gate » Blog Archive » Goth Chick (International) News: Iranian Ghost Stories For Real
“Quite simply, a horny guy is a stupid guy, and something as simple as a photo is...”
– Neuromarketing Explains Weiner’s Pickle | Neuromarketing
May 2011
8 posts
“In Google’s war with Facebook, Google’s “don’t be...”
– How Google Spies on Your Gmail Account (And How To Stop It) - Gawker
Depression May Be Foretold in How We Remember -... →
I think I need write “morning pages” again. Concentrate on specifics.
Gender stereotypes easing more for girls than boys... →
I feel that at this point in my life I should have something intelligent to say about gender stereotypes. I don’t. Granted, that doesn’t seem to generally stop anyone else from having an opinion…
“Yesterday, I saw a quote from Martin Luther King Jr. fly across my Twitter feed:...”
– Anatomy of a Fake Quotation - Megan McArdle - National - The Atlantic
“I remember sitting in the classroom, watching the TV that day, 9/11, and how...”
– Complications after a night of jubilation - The Washington Post
April 2011
11 posts
“According to Duke, “Purchases are really dropping off by the end of the month...”
– Walmart CEO Confirms Payday Timing Effect | Neuromarketing
You Prefer Which Batman Again? | tor.com | Science... →
I want my Dark Knight obsessed, not just determined.
Jennifer Represents...: When to Keep Your Trap... →
MY HOLLYWOOD MISADVENTURES: THE BIG RIPOFF-... →
When You Cancel Your Magazine Subscription on Your... →
The Neuroscience of the Gut: Scientific American →
Oracle gives up on OpenOffice after community... →
Science-Based Medicine » GSK Tells BC and Goody’s... →
“keeping the faith is more important than cashing the check”
– DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #69: We Are All Savages Inside - The Rumpus.net
Rands In Repose: A Hard Thing is Done by Figuring... →
March 2011
16 posts
Borders Seeks to Pay $8.3 Million in Bonuses -... →
507 - Darkness and Cherry Pie: David Lynch’s Map... →
How Carrots Became the New Junk Food | Fast... →
“remember that it was always thus: kings and queens were flattered by their...”
– Wondermark » Archive » True Stuff: The Ethics of Retouching
“What seems to surprise third-party developers … is the brazenly dismissive...”
– Twitter tells third-party devs to stop making Twitter client apps
“Bath & Body Works took a preemptive step in its hopes to end the whole...”
– ‘Twilight’ Fight! Body Brand Seeks to Defang Summit
Study: Kids prefer taste of food from cartooned... →
PG-rated 'Rango' has anti-smoking advocates fuming... →
“But are we, as a society, in agreement with Zuckerberg, where having two...”
– Editorial: Facebook, single identities, and the right to be anonymous — Engadget
“we welcome our new Search Engine overlords”
– Google flips Android kill switch, destroys a batch of malicious apps (update) — Engadget
Return of the brain-controlling zombie-ant... →
“Caregiver speech dipped to a minimum and slowly ascended back out in...”
– MIT Scientist Captures Son’s First 90,000 Hours and First Words on Video, Graphs It | Fast Company