07.24.08
5 Stages of Grief
From Minyanville:
02.08.08
Paging Dr. Evil
Apparently Dr. Evil ain’t got nothin’ on Rupert Murdoch’s new WSJ:
That’s right, sharks with frickin’ laser beams attached to their heads.
04.30.07
Chess Master
The following video shows an impressive feat — an amateur takes on 9 master chess players and comes out with a winning record. How does he do it? Luckily, he explains (most of) his tricks at the end of the video…
(10 minutes long)
04.15.07
Vonnegut’s rules for short stories
From Boing Boing: Vonnegut’s rules for short stories…
1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
4. Every sentence must do one of two things — reveal character or advance the action.
5. Start as close to the end as possible.
6. Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them — in order that the reader may see what they are made of.
7. Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
8. Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.
04.09.07
Timing is Everything
On a lighter note, this is very amusing…
Alanis Morissette gives us a different take on the “My Humps” song. Oh how different things are when the timing is so contrasting…