January 2012
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December 2011
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Cortex →
Cortex is a pretty cool sharing plugin for Chrome.  Hold your mouse button for a second, and you can share images, pages, etc. 
Dec 12th
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November 2011
4 posts
Three Types Of People In The World
alexsrandomtechthoughts: A smart man once told me that if you would divide people into groups of what is important to them you would end up with three types of people in the world. People who care about how much money they make.  People who care about what title they have. People who only care about making an impact/dent in the world. One should strive to be bucketed in the third batch.
Nov 8th
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The Believer - Postmodernism As Liberty Valance:... →
Nov 8th
50 Excellent, Scholarly Literary Criticism Blogs |...
http://www.onlinecollegecourses.com/2009/12/07/50-excellent-scholarly-literary-criticism-blogs/
Nov 4th
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October 2011
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Minimal: Feature bloat and the art of keeping... →
mnmal: Software, like pretty much everything in this world, is succeptible to clutter and bloat. More specifically feature bloat. Developers keep on adding new features until their products can send email, or in other words their software gets so full of features it’s no longer agile and fast and it’s…
Oct 15th
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Article about OS X Text Editors for Programmers →
Oct 2nd
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kod: CSS3 themable, Node.js powered editor for OS... →
thechangelog: It’s a very Merry Christmas for Mac developers. Rasmus Andersson has open sourced Kod, the “programmers’ editor for OS X.” Built from the ground to feel like a native OS X app, Kod sports Chrome-style tear-off tabs and aims for full concurrency, taking advantage of additional CPU cores when loading files, performing syntax highlighting, and other intensive tasks. Even with the...
Oct 2nd
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Red Shirt insignia depicts the fate of all... →
robskiff: Love this Ian Leino Red Shirt t-shirt design, whose Star Trek insignia bears a frank and unmistakable icon depicting the fate of all redshirts in the landing party. (via Making Light)
Oct 2nd
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September 2011
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Sep 19th
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Kickstarter - A GREATER MONSTER, a psychedelic... →
A great kickstarter project.  An indie writer, who is using kickstarter to become his own publisher to create a book that will be a work of art.  
Sep 17th
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“Right speech is a vast, important topic in Buddhist training, and nowhere is it...”
– Rita Gross, Buddhism and Religious Diversity
Sep 15th
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December 2009
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Thanks to Red Sweater Software
Red Sweater Software is currently running a promotion on Twitter until January 1st. By casually mentioning their products in a tweet, you can win a copy of that product. I managed to win a copy of MarsEdit (which I am using to type out this blog post.) You can find more information at this post on their blog: Wishes Do Come True Thanks again Red Sweater Software!
Dec 25th
November 2009
9 posts
Documentary Heaven →
Very useful for research.
Nov 15th
50 More of Wikipedia's Most Interesting Articles →
Nov 15th
The 50 Most Interesting Articles on Wikipedia →
Nov 15th
Google Wave
By now, just about everybody I know has access to Google Wave, or at least, any of my friends who wanted access in the first place.  With that in mind, I’ve been exploring wave to determine if it has some uses for writers. So far, I haven’t found much, but if you’re exploring the same territory, knowing how to use wave is essential. With that in mind, I’d like to point you...
Nov 15th
Serendipity: Character Description Generator →
Generates Random character descriptions.
Nov 14th
Serendipity: Plot Twist Generator →
This is a pretty cool Plot Twist Generator.
Nov 14th
Police Jargon - How to Talk Like a Cop →
Nov 14th
Plotshot - Random Plots With Random Shots (from... →
Nov 14th
Fantasy Timeline Generator →
A site that generates a random timeline for a fantasy kingdom.
Nov 14th
October 2009
2 posts
Timeglider: Timelines Made Easy
Timeglider is a great web application that allows you to create complex timelines easily.  You can find it at http://timeglider.com. The best part:  It’s free!
Oct 30th
Buy This Book
If you’re a writer, you know how painful it is to sit in front of the computer or your notebook and have no idea what you want to say.  The frustration can end. Natalie Goldberg’s Writing Down the Bones is a great book.  It’s filled with tips and exercises to get you writing.  More importantly, it helps you develop a writing practice.  When Goldberg uses the phrase...
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