Stuff I like on the internet (05/01/09)
I do have a whole set of content-full and (hopefully) interesting posts planned for this month. Unfortunately, all my plans have been scuppered by the horrible cold I developed last Friday and which has kept me mostly languishing in bed ever since. (And I’ve read 7 books in 4.5 days – eeek.)
So instead of my interesting posts, you get some links to other people’s interesting posts:
- “The ecofriendly font that saves on ink” – The Guardian -a new font designed to save ink when documents are printed out; it seems like one of those very obvious ideas!
- “The Kitchen Full of Slush” – Editorial Anonymous – a re-run of a visualisation exercise in what 15,000 manuscripts (e.g. the number a publisher might receive in a year) looks like
- “How to Deal with Cranks, Flamers and Trolls” – Men With Pens – how to react and how to not react to comments online
- “How Do You Know When the Words Need to Go?” – Confident Writing – the cutting room and your inner editor
- “1o Tips to Improve Your Fiction Writing Skills” – Writing Forward – good advice in a guest post from Kelly Kilpatrick
And this made me giggle hysterically, remembering the Scrabble match we played at my last job where the first word down was something with an I in it, and the next person to play had the letters V A G N blank S… Well, it got them their 50 point bonus! [Click Continue Reading if necessary to see the cartoon.]
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on January 5th, 2009 at 8:51 pm
The Scrabble thing is horribly familiar. I’m on a panel of willing volunteers for the psychology department at the university where I used to work. I can’t remember the particular research they were doing at the time, but one of the tests entailed saying as many words as possible in a given time, no plurals, no proper nouns, the usual things. I would be given you a letter and all the words had to start with that letter. I got F. My mind went blank.
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on January 5th, 2009 at 11:43 pm
Got much hilarity out of the XKCD comic – I really should visit that website more.
I enjoyed the links too, actually; Editorial Anonymous seems like a really quirky and well-written blog.
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on January 6th, 2009 at 7:59 am
Thank you very much,your site is perfect
on January 6th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
LOL
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