- Call for Submissions
Oi, writer types what read this: my friend Del is trying to put together a charity book to help Medcins Sans Frontieres. She is looking for submissions. If you have the time between now and October to write a short story on the theme of healing, you might consider doing so, and punting it in her direction. More details in the link.
Tag: Writing
Bookmarks for February 25, 2010
- Serendipity
Massive collection of random-thing generators, handy set of tools.
- ESPN The Magazine – Rick Reilly: How about a little recognition for bowling champ Kelly Kulick? – ESPN
This is kinda saddening. Women beats all the men in the male dominated sport, press indifferent. OK, so it's bowling, and that's hardly a sport that gets lots of coverage. But still: Woman beats men at the ultimate man-sport, it being the one normally done with beer and crisps and so on. Maybe it should get a lot of sports coverage, but I would have though it would have got lots of human interest/chat-show coverage. Sad, like I say.
Bookmarks for January 8, 2010
- Two Gentlemen of Lebowski
I think I must find some people, and somehow stage this. It would be *amazing*.
- Prices | Newspaper Club
12 people, stumping up less that 50 quid each could all get 40 copies of a 12 page full colour printed product that would be easily saleable for 1.50 plus P&P. That's a tabloid newspaper page to do with as you will, and ten quid in your pocket. Creative people out there: what would you fill your page with?
Bookmarks for December 8, 2009
- Welcome – Ommwriter
A clutter free text editor that blocks out other distractions and saves as plain text by default. I like and use Scrivener, but honestly, it's got more power then I need for something simply like, say, writing a blog post. So I'll give this a go, and see how we get on.
Bookmarks for November 24, 2009
- panGloss: Mandy and Me: some thoughts on the Digital Economy Bill
A lawyer takes the Digital Economy Bill apart.
My own idiots guide to the DEB is at 1500 words and counting, and I'm not sure I'm even halfway through yet. So: serious question – if there anyone reading this who feels it would be useful for me to produce said guide? Is a guide that tries to use short words and explain the whole business practically from absolutely first principles worth it, or are you all going to go "tl;dr" and skip blithely past it? Who is there round these parts that feels like they don't know what's going on on this subject, and would like to? - The 50 most interesting articles on Wikipedia « Copybot
Dammit, these actually *are* that interesting. An absolute mine of weird crap that illustrates that the world is a pretty damn splendid place, when you get right down to it.
- Patched mach_kernel 10.2.0 for Atom-based netbooks – InsanelyMac Forum
I will have absolutely no need of this kernel patch at any point.
- How To: Hackintosh a Dell Mini 10v Into the Ultimate Snow Leopard Netbook – Dell mini 10v hackintosh – Gizmodo
This would violate my EULA. Obviously, I would not wish to do this, because once I have legitimately purchased something, it is completely reasonable that that manufacturer dictate how I use it.
- Home – flashbake – GitHub
Tools for writers/people who generate text, rather than code, to apply more or less automatic version control to something you're working on, with tools to provide context on what was going on in your head when a given automatic commit happened.
- The Literary Gift Company
ZOMG! (As I believe the young people say.) Someone has made a website with gifts specifically for me and all my friends!
- Police routinely arresting people to get DNA, inquiry claims | Politics | The Guardian
Gosh, couldn't have guessed this would happen.
Bookmarks for August 18, 2009
- David Foster Wallace on Life and Work – WSJ.com
"The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day. That is real freedom. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default-setting, the 'rat race' — the constant gnawing sense of having had and lost some infinite thing."
Bookmarks for July 15, 2009
- Essay: Dumb-dumb bullets – July 2009 – Armed Forces Journal – Military Strategy, Global Defense Strategy
Whenever anyone asks me why I hate meetings and powerpoint, I am just going to point them at this. If the purpose of a presentation in a meeting is to get decisions made, then the decisions made as a result are likely to be flawed. The information should be circulated in a sensible manner pre-meeting.
- Words For Print Vs Words For Web | > jim rossignol
Yes. Clever stuff. Worth the read. Ties up with some back-of-the-mind thoughts I'm having at the moment.
- Meeting Ticker
This should be up on the a screen in every meeting room, ever.
- tedr*tumblr: Right on Trent
Trent Reznor nails the future of not just the music business, but more or less any creative economy. Barring, of course, the disruptive new technology that will be invented next month that will render his notions moot. But y'know, it's a good summary of what everyone should have been doing for the last few years.
Bookmarks for June 30, 2009
- potlatch: what's going on with the music formerly known as 'indie'?
"I can tell you which Suede record accompanied my GCSEs and A-Levels; today's teenagers would tell you which band."
- Michael Moorcock, Alan Moore, Iain Sinclair
Never mind kicking myself – I am scourging myself with rusty barbed wire, and rubbing salt in the wounds for missing this. Couple of key quotes from this write up: "Is the current be-scaffolded state of London perpetual remythologising?" Iain Sinclair says “Before we can move forward, we have to absorb everything that has come before, and rip it off.”
- SoFoBoMo – The Solo Photo Book Month
Dammit, why was I not told about this? Next year, gadget, next year!
- Glastonbury 2009 – The Big Picture
It *almost* makes me want to got there next year, and take a camera. Obviously, I'm not mad, and won't be going, but there are some absolutely gorgeous shots in here.
Bookmarks for April 29, 2009
- Kickstarter » Projects
A commercial scale ransomware/fundraising site that'll work for any creative endeavour. Now to think of something people will want to give me money for…
- Daily Scans – Alan Moore's Glory proposal
Hadn't seen this before, and I can see approaches in this that clearly got recycled into Promethea, and Tom Strong and the other ABC stuff, which makes it all rather more interesting than just a document about an old Supreme character.
- Noisy Decent Graphics: "Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end."
God, I hate it when I discover that Margaret Thatcher said something I agree with.
- Noisy Decent Graphics: 7 ways to be a Graphic Design student online
Never mind "Graphic Design Student" – 7 ways to be a thinking human being. If you're not using a decent number of these services, well, OK, it hardly makes you a bad person, but still: most of these are basic tools for information management and digital note taking, and if you like to think of yourself as engaged with the world, and aren't using them, then you're probably doing something wrong. (Saying that: I keep trying to get some cognitive traction with tumblr, and have never really managed it. Might take another go soon. And it did take me rather longer than many of my friends to get twitter.)
Bookmarks for March 27, 2009
- Contrariwise: Literary Tattoos
I've got a few different quotes I'd consider having put on me, and this place might provide inspiration for design/context for them.
- Daring Fireball: Obsession Times Voice
I don't have time to read this in full right now, so I'm bookmarking it so I remember to read it at some point over the weekend.
- Steve Lambert » SelfControl
Mac App to lock email/internet away for periods of time. Killer feature: once started, it cannot be undone, unlike most other, similar apps. Handy for those days when you really have to just dig in and get something done.
- glycon: Big Numbers #3
Alan Moore's Big Numbers #3, made available on-line with his blessing. To say this is a big unexpected would be understating things a bit, but well done that man.