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Screenplays for the Web

Yesterday I sat down to put some of my old screenplays online. Screenplays have a very specific format – monospaced fonts, fixed directions for margins, etc. Unfortunately all those rules are for paper...

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Looking beyond blogs

Every few years there seems to be some new blogging platform that’s going to solve all (or at least some) of the problems of the old ones. A few years ago Posterous made a splash with its idea of being...

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Still Alive

Rumors of my demise are greatly exaggerated. To be honest, I always feel a tinge of guilt and regret whenever I write a post along the lines of “I’m alive” or “I’m back”. Generally it means that I’ve...

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Strong Female Characters

I liked the new Avengers movie. It wasn’t the greatest movie, of course, and the plotline wasn’t all that creative. But as far as summer superhero flicks go it was quite solid, much better than most of...

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Sunday Selection 2012-09-09

With a paper deadline in about ten days I find myself in the all too familiar position of too much to do and too little time to do it in. So today’s installment is focused on productivity and getting...

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Sunday Selection 2012-09-16

Around the Web There is something magical about Firefox OS As much as I love my Android phone and think that Windows phone UI is pretty interesting I’m starting to wonder if the phone software...

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On reading, writing and taking breaks

I’ve been taking a break from writing for a while. For the last few weeks I’ve been taking a break from this blog (and my tumblelog) as an experiment to see what life would be like without a regular...

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Book review: So Good They Can’t Ignore You

“Follow your passion is dangerous advice.” Cal Newport’s newest book opens with an interesting and controversial piece of advice. That’s perhaps not surprising given how interesting Cal Newport himself...

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To Share is Human

Last week I wrote about my break from writing and how I’d spent it doing a good amount of reading. I noted how I’d stumbled across a particularly interesting (and good quality) “curation” site called...

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What do you do to break a creative block?

I’ve been wanting to get back to blogging for a while now. Unfortunately a combination of graduate student life and not wanting to spend even more time than I already do in front of a computer has made...

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To thine own reading habits be true

It’s been about two weeks since the untimely demise of our dearly beloved Google Reader. Since then many replacements have been stepping up to the plate. I’ve been using Feedly, but I hear good things...

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Not so Svbtle

A few weeks ago I got an invitation to Dustin Curtis’ hip new(ish) blogging platform called Svbtle. The original announcement created a bit of a stir around the Intertubes. It was supposed to be both a...

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Multiplicity

Over the last weekend I played around with an interesting service called Editorially. It’s essentially a stripped down, online text editor, with support for Markdown formatting. However, it’s most...

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Sunday Selection 2013-12-01

Around the Web Happy post-Thanksgiving greetings, dear readers. If you celebrate, I hope you had a wonderful time with friends and family. If you engaged in the consumerist spectacle of Black Friday...

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The Brain-Hand Barrier

I’ve never been a particularly fast typist. Despite reading Steve Yegge’s very entertaining Programming’s Dirtiest Secret once every few months or so, I’ve been stuck in the 40 to 50 words-per-minute...

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The Ten Pillars of Cutthroat Zen

I’ve been meditating on and off for the better part of the year. I can currently about fifteen minutes at a stretch and on the days I do get around to it, I definitely feel calmer and more focused than...

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Remembering Aaron Swartz

Aaron Swartz was a programmer, entrepreneur and Internet activist who left his mark on both the Internet and the world at large. He was involved in the development of the RSS and Markdown formats as...

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Sunday Selection 2015-02-22

Around the Web Oliver Sacks on Learning He Has Terminal Cancer There is said to be a Roman tradition where a victorious Roman general would parade through the streets of Rome and as he did so a servant...

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On Reading More Books

One of my intentions for 2016 (I hesitate to call it a resolution) is to read more books. Over the last few years, the number of books I’ve read (and the frequency with which I read them) has steadily...

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To Compete with Medium

Dave Winer is encouraging bloggers (or really anyone with something to say) to post anywhere but Medium. He says that Medium is becoming a “consensus platform” for posting longform writing on the web,...

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