Category: Miscellany

  • Navigate by time

    Given the choice of half of Paul Ford‘s writing talent or half of his database squeegling skills, I’m not sure which I’d choose…. (Go on?)

  • Work more, blog less

    Seems like as I workload heats up and my deadlines start compounding, I am blogging less. Sometimes this is not the case. Often there are delicate webs of interdependent procrastinations at work. Then I can accomplish much while still feeling bad about something important I’m not doing. This feels more like a fast. A little…

  • Ken Layne looking for online column

    If there’s any blogger out there who deserves a decent-paying column gig, it’s Ken Layne. He’s got the writing chops, the journalism dues paid, and the blog cred. What more is required?

  • Not yet 40 and not a killer

    Noticed a bunch of visitors coming from an unfamiliar referrer. It turns out to be a message board for players of some online game. Apparently one of the participants is a French-speaking 15-year-old from Canada who goes by the online handle ‘xian’. The mother of one of the other teen participants in the game Google…

  • Ain't no thesis like a P-Funk thesis…

    Is the academic world ready for the awesome power of a fully operational mothership? Scot Hacker reports that an article he wrote on Parliament-Funkadelic for a book by Pagan Kennedy has inspired a master’s thesis on P-Funk and Transcendentalism. Now maybe Scot’s seminal writings on Liberace will finally get the attention they deserve in the…

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