- Easter island heads have bodies!?? | Thinkbox
From the department of "I did not know that". There's a story in there somewhere. Possibly underground.
- Blogging is not a thing, it’s an attitude
A simple and clear insight into why "corporate blogging" is an oxymoron. In order to blog, one must be free to express one's *true* thoughts, on any subject that one is moved to. Otherwise, you're just writing on a website. Which is not a bad thing – there is not value judgement necessarily implied here, although yes, I do have a preference, and you can guess what it is – but it's not blogging.
Tag: Writing
Bookmarks for February 9, 2012
- Fountain | A markup language for screenwriting.
Markdown like syntax design for screenplays.
Bookmarks for January 4, 2012
- Dirty 30s! – The Lester Dent Pulp Paper Master Fiction Plot
Lester Dent sold a lot of books in his day. Writing a series of modern day stories that ultimately follow this formula might be fun. 10 or 12 would make a nicely publishable volume, too.
- Paypal orders destruction of antique violin
I'm not sure what to say. This feels very like something that ought to be a crime – the seller had an authenticated antique violin, worth $2,500, and sold it. The buyer disputed the purchase. Paypal required proof of destruction before they would refund money. Buyer destroys antique, seller is now out both an antique violin *and* the money. Surely Paypal could be held to be complicit in a theft, here?
Bookmarks for November 14, 2011
- Danielle Sucher › Jailbreak the Patriarchy: my first Chrome extension
A Chrome plugin that does its best to gender-swap the internet. For some it'll be eye opening. For some, it'' raise blood pressure. For others, it might even lower it. In any event, it's an interesting experience – go play.
- Sycorax: Bring Fictional Characters to Life on Twitter
Yes, I can see uses for this that would massively enhance a present-day tech based game, or just because it looks like a fun little narrative engine.
Bookmarks for February 7, 2011
- NoteSlate /// intuitively simple monochrome paper alike tablet device
If this isn't vapourware, then I am at least interested in having a play with one. I've never been happy with scribbling handwritten noted on the ipad, but I do want to stop carrying paper for scribbling on.
Bookmarks for February 3, 2011
- Curveship: Interactive Fiction + Interactive Narrating
Potentially interesting, if a bit ahead of me right now.
Bookmarks for January 4, 2011
- Kieron Gillen’s Workblog » Tracks of The Year 2010
Mr Gillen's tracks of the year are always worth a listen. Well, some of them are, but you have to listen to them all to find out which. But more importantly, the list is a fun read.
Bookmarks for December 10, 2010
- Help: Twelve Tales of Healing
Your second stock-filler recommendation for the day! What are you waiting for? Go! Get shopping! Buy my friend's fine literary product and help make the world a better place!
- Invaders from Mars – Charlie's Diary
I know Stross is one of my regular linkees, and I'm sure a lot of you glide over him at this point, but I thought this was a particularly interesting read, and I commend it to anyone who is feeling frustrated by the apparently lack of ability for members of the public to influence anything in the wake of stuff like Wikileaks and the student fees protests. It won't tell you how to change things, but it provides an interesting perspective on the whys of the current situation, that lead to some interesting thoughts on how one might affect change in the medium-term future.
- The Fast Fiction Challenge – Volume 2 by Lee Barnett
Budgie's Fast Fiction Challenge, now in its second volume. I commend it to your attention as a perfect stocking filler.
- standpoint gallery
Reverting to Type: exhibition. Must go see.
- Havasu: a material exploration of conversational interfaces – Blog – BERG
Interested mostly into the insights into conversational interface, rather than the actual product here. For consideration: pair a more general use version of this with some voice recognition software, and it won't be long before all those SF voice-activated computers become a reality.
Bookmarks for November 3, 2010
- Did somebody just try to buy the British government? – Charlie's Diary
I uh, don't quite know what to make of this. It sounds like conspiracy theory meets internet fraud scam on a national level. But if it's legit, and anyone from Foundation X is reading this and would like to fund me to the tune of say, 4 or 5 million quid with no strings attached, then I'm certainly willing to enter into discussions about how I would usefully use the money…
- The Do Lectures | Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee explains the context through which he came to computers, and makes the case that while people aren't ever going to come to thme that way again, there are still some vitally important things that we should be teaching our children about computers.
- Antony Johnston – Scrivening Comics
If you write, whether it's comics or not, I imagine that by the time you have read this article, you will understand why you need Scrivener in your life. It is hands down the best writing app I have ever encountered, and what's better is that it's surprisingly intuitive to use. Antony's article may have you thinking "god, that sounds like a lot of options, how confusing", but what I love about it is that they're not intrusive, and you can come to them as you need them. Try it just as a word processor, and you'll find that over time, you'll pick up more and more of it's features, just because they're there and easy to understand, until you wonder how you managed to write without it. Just the ability to hold my research notes in a meaningful structure alongside my actual writing, and view both at the same time is invaluable to me, never mind the bits of process tracking it enables me to do…
- The protocol-relative URL « Paul Irish
I didn't know that one could do this. It's pointless tech stuff to most of you, but I'll find it very useful.
Bookmarks for November 1, 2010
- Steve Lieber And The Cellmate Test Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors
This made me laugh. Lads, if you are confused as to whether a compliment you are paying a lady is going to be taken as flattery, or if you're going to cross the line into creepy, her is a simple test that will save you more than 90% of the time: imagine yourself in jail, and imagine how you would feel if your hypothetical cellmate said exactly the same thing to you. Now do you see?
- His Face All Red
An absolute gem of a little horror comic. Serious, go read.
- Lizard Brain » Blog Archive » 100 Aspects of Genre: Learning from the Dead and the Dying
Nice post on the evolution of genre, and why some genres flourish, some mutate, and some die at different times.