October 2009
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Annie Dillard and The Writing Life →
A great personal essay by the novelist Alexander Chee, who studied under Dillard in the late ‘80’s. Lots of money quotes in this one. My favorite:
Talent isn’t enough, she had told us. Writing is work. Anyone can do this, anyone can learn to do this. It’s not rocket science, it’s habits of mind and habits of work. I started with people much more talented than me, she said, and they’re...
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The Sun in Motion →
Close up (really close up) video of the surface of the sun. Very cool.
(via instructify)
Tokenism…a few practical suggestions →
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Regretsy
If you want to be constantly laughing out loud and amazed at all the insane things people will try to sell on Etsy, the handcrafted site, you should check out regretsy. (Some of the pictures borderline NSFW. But you will probably be OK, unless you laugh too loud. )
This one made me throw up in my mouth a little... →
After gazing at the blasphemy that is that painting, go check out what Greg Boyd had to say about it. Right on, Grag!
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Moving to the Hood
I know things have been quiet around here, but things have been crazy at the Hollowell house. We just moved to the hood. For you Raleigh Peeps, we are near Jones and Tarborro - the location of the majority of the arrests in 2008 for prostitution. There are a lot of reasons we have decided to move to an economically depressed area, many of which I will probably talk about over the next few months....
Links in Print: Newspaper Designed With Web... →
Newspapers are struggling. Here is a proposed design for a German paper that uses web design principles - even including hyperlinks! (It did not win, which is a shame).
Does it look like a blog page to you?