| T-Shirts for Tomorrow |
[15 May 2008|04:26pm] |
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David Holmes - Gone - (K&D Session) - Kruder & Dorfmeister |
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T-Shirts for Tomorrow
It's got nothing to do with 365tomorrows, but I can't help but like it.
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| Matte Painter |
[12 May 2008|12:15pm] |
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亜麻色の髪の乙女 - Lily Chou Chou |
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Raphael Lacoste - another incredibly talented artist.
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| Masako Yasumoto |
[09 May 2008|12:06am] |
Sometimes I post things here just so I can find them again in future. This is one of those. If you didn't catch this on warrenellis.com, watch it. It's wonderful.
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| Writer's Block: It's Too Late to Apologize |
[07 May 2008|11:40pm] |
Yes, and really 'I'm sorry' never 'fixes' anything. You either get over what happened or you don't, and part of that is based on whether you can trust the person to not do whatever it was they did in the first place.
'I'm sorry' is just a meaningless formality, it's an easy thing to fill the space with. It could just as easily be 'Micky Mantle Soda Pops' - the words don't mean a thing.
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| Robert Frost : The Road Not Taken |
[01 May 2008|10:32pm] |
The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
: Robert Frost
This, and 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' are two of the very best reasons I have for wanting to read more Robert Frost.
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| Environments |
[29 Apr 2008|11:20pm] |
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We Suck Young Blood - Radiohead |
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Just stumbled over this guys work. Incredible.
Randall MacDonald
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| The Front Fell Off |
[29 Apr 2008|03:08pm] |
Another nice one. On July 21st, 1991 the bow of the Greek oil tanker Kirki breaks off, causing an oil leak which quickly sets the ship on fire. That itself is not funny, but this is.
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| Air Jelly |
[29 Apr 2008|02:26pm] |
Very cool.
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| Love this... |
[28 Apr 2008|12:22am] |
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| OpenTopia : Free Live Webcams |
[23 Apr 2008|11:42am] |
There are open webcams from all over the world, broken down by country. 1096 eyes on the world, all open, who's watching?
Free Live Webcams
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| Kurt Vonnegut - 8 Rules For Writing Fiction |
[23 Apr 2008|08:29am] |
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Burning Man : Camp |
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Kurt Vonnegut - 8 Rules For Writing Fiction
"1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
4. Every sentence must do one of two things -- reveal character or advance the action.
5. Start as close to the end as possible.
6. Be a sadist. Now matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that the reader may see what they are made of.
7. Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
8. Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages."
-- Vonnegut, Kurt Vonnegut, Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1999), 9-10.
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| The Big Word Project |
[22 Apr 2008|10:54pm] |
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Hispañola - Vangelis |
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I can't explain why I think this is brilliant, but I'm convinced that it is.
Get your words at The Big Word Project
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| The Caribbean rocks |
[09 Apr 2008|05:42pm] |
We flew into Ft.Lauderdale on Sunday, busses to Miami and then set sail on the Norwegian Dawn Sunday afternoon. Sunday night and all day Monday on the water, into Samana on the Dominican peninsula for the day on Tuesday, then sailed overnight into St.Thomas in the American Virgin Islands for the day today - a little shopping in what might be the most concentrated jewelry market I've ever seen where people were herding you into their stores to try to sell you watches starting in the couple of thousands, and rings starting closer to $10k. Insane.
We spent the afternoon snorkeling in Coki beach, which was all kinds of awesome and are sailing now to Tortola, where we'll do much of the same tomorrow.
Wasn't sure if the cruise thing was going to be for me, but I'm having all kinds of fun.
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| From Daring Fireball |
[05 Apr 2008|10:01am] |
On MacOSX (I'm not sure what version, but certainly in 10.5)
In Safari (and most other apps), you can hover the mouse over any word and use Command-Control-D (by default) to display the definition of that word right there in the current window.
I was not aware of that, I use m-w.com all the time for just this thing, so this is a huge benefit.
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