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OccupyWriters.com, an excerpt by Lemony Snicket
Posted by recommended on October 19, 2011
https://www.swordbilled.com/occupywriters/
Violence down, claims Pinker the thinker
Ouch.
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The “thinking man’s Malcolm Gladwell” is actually pretty unfair to Gladwell who is an essayist rather than someone with pretensions to being a major acad…
Posted by recommended on October 16, 2011
https://www.swordbilled.com/violence-down-claims-pinker/
Text Editors in The Lord of the Rings
A thought-sparking exhibition which I revisited more than I ought to have when reconsidering my text editor of choice: Prompted by a passing thought about TextMate, I thought I’d make a comprehensive, accurate, unbiased, and irrefutable survey of text editors by way of comparison to locations in The Lord of the Rings. (via Crooked Timber) […]
Posted by recommended on August 1, 2011
https://www.swordbilled.com/text-editors-in-the-lord-of-the-rings/
Posters of Fortune
Fortune-cookies-as-typographic-art. Rad.
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Posted by recommended on July 27, 2011
https://www.swordbilled.com/posters-of-fortune/
A Beautified Apached Index – h5ai
Like this idea. Not sure I have an application for it (yet), but I approve of the concept.
Posted by recommended on July 26, 2011
https://www.swordbilled.com/a-beautified-apached-index-h5ai/
What Typos Mean to Book Publishing – NYTimes.com
Better and faster (though not exactly). An interesting take on the resurgence of typos as publishers struggle to stay relevant and create product.
I was disgruntled at seeing a typo on the first page (I’m not kidding) of William Vollman’s Impe…
Posted by recommended on July 25, 2011
https://www.swordbilled.com/what-typos-mean-to-book-publishing-nytimes-com/
ICSI Netalyzr
A really helpful little tool to look at network issues. Haven’t had a chance to actually make use of it in troubleshooting, but looks like it’d be super useful.
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networkin…
Posted by recommended on July 25, 2011
https://www.swordbilled.com/icsi-netalyzr/
How Christian Gerhartsreiter Became Clark Rockefeller – WSJ.com
Excerpted / adapted from The Man in the Rockefeller Suit A fascinating read.
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But the newcomer had sucked them in by acting as if he were better than they were. “He’s…
Posted by recommended on July 18, 2011
https://www.swordbilled.com/how-christian-gerhartsreiter-became-clark-rockefeller-wsj-com/
Call for Contributions to an Essay Collection: Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye
This could end up being painfully dull, but I’m willing to give it the benefit of the doubt…
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The editor is currently seeking proposals for an essay collection inve…
Posted by recommended on July 10, 2011
https://www.swordbilled.com/call-for-contributions-to-an-essay-collection-transformers-more-than-meets-the-eye/
The Connected States of America
A spectacular interactive infographic put together by folks at MIT that shows the connections bridged by cellphones (and others not bridged). (via Andrew Sullivan)
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Posted by recommended on July 8, 2011
https://www.swordbilled.com/the-connected-states-of-america/