March 2010
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“The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and...”
– Ten rules for writing fiction | Books | guardian.co.uk
Mar 24th
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“Apple says it will replace iPads with dying batteries for about $US100 ($110)....”
– Apple, iPad, battery, charge Does that mean you get a new iPad for a hundred bucks? That would have to mean that there’s a huge stockpile of reconditioned ones somewhere, right?
Mar 15th
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Mar 4th
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“Apple may delay or limit the size of the launch of its anticipated iPad tablet...”
– Apple iPad launch may be delayed: analyst
Mar 1st
February 2010
25 posts
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Pentax ME super.
misscaitie: My parents had this camera when they first got married. I am shooting a black and white roll of film with it today. I’m pretty sure I like shooting film better than shooting digital. I wish I had my own darkroom. I had the same camera when i first went to Uni, and you’re right: there’s something very real about the apple-bite sound of the shutter mechanism. Sadly,...
Feb 24th
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Feb 24th
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“The most scorching novel in the English language, Wuthering Heights, was written...”
– A ravenous heart - Dorothy Porter - Books - Entertainment - theage.com.au
Feb 23rd
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“Creative-writing programs are designed on the theory that students who have...”
– David Morley, University of Warwick
Feb 22nd
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“A study orchestrated by K. Anders Ericsson who looked at musical prodigies found...”
– What It Takes to Become a Master Writer
Feb 21st
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“This isn’t the first time a concert at the Empty Bottle has been ruined by...”
– Concert Ruined By Guy Enjoying Himself | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source It’s irony, right?
Feb 17th
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WatchWatch
Four minutes of video explaining how a magazine works on the iPad. Just in case you couldn’t figure that out. “The point here is that we are entering a new era of media, where we finally have a digital platform that allows us to retain all the rich visual features of high-gloss print, from lavish design to glorious photography, while augmenting it with video, animations, additional...
Feb 17th
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“In an interview in Barcelona, [Adobe’s senior experience design manager,...”
– Tablets take off - as ABC prepares to get on board “They think they have a lot of interesting content”? Withering, much?
Feb 17th
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“VICTORIAN students are absent or withdrawing from national testing at some of...”
– Low turnout ‘skewing’ school test results People keep finding fault with the data on the My School website. Don’t they understand? It’s statistics; statistics are meant to be manipulated to suit the person using the statistics. That’s how statistics work.
Feb 17th
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“And all of this angry [Google Buzz] storm reminds us of the hugely controversial...”
– Will Google Buzz Go the Way of Facebook Beacon? | Technomix | Fast Company Well, we always knew that Facebook was evil… But wait; isn’t this the mechanism whereby the Semantic Web (Web 3.0) operates? Stealing your data and violating your privacy so that you can be coerced into buying...
Feb 17th
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“Whether you like it or loathe it, Google’s new Buzz social sharing system...”
– Will Google Buzz Go the Way of Facebook Beacon? | Technomix | Fast Company SO Google is… evil? Is that what we’re saying here? Who’da thunk.
Feb 17th
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“British church leaders are encouraging people to give up their iPods for Lent,...”
– Brits urged to give up iPods for Lent I’m not sure, but i reckon that chocolate would probably have a larger carbon footprint than my iPod. I know for a fact that the meat they recommend “cutting thinner” would have a larger carbon footprint mosdef. Still, it’s nice that...
Feb 17th
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Feb 16th
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Feb 16th
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Information Is Beautiful | Ideas, issues,... →
Here’s one of those jobs that they told us didn’t exist when the kids doing the job first went to school: data visualiser.
Feb 16th
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Feb 16th
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“AK: At the “hacking education” summit at Union Square Ventures last...”
– How Startl Is Hacking Education From the Outside In | Page 2 | Fast Company
Feb 16th
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“I think a lot of times government money is about the codification of...”
– How Startl Is Hacking Education From the Outside In | Page 2 | Fast Company
Feb 16th
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“AK: Where do you see the biggest market gaps in educational technology? PW:...”
– How Startl Is Hacking Education From the Outside In | Fast Company
Feb 16th
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“The Late Heavy Bombardment (commonly referred to as the lunar cataclysm, or LHB)...”
– Late Heavy Bombardment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The stuff the Solar System got up to before we were born! Scandalous.
Feb 15th
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“The Hadean (pronounced /ˈheɪdiən/) is the geologic eon before the Archean. It...”
– Hadean - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia So the period of Earth’s geological history when it was all melty is nicknamed after Hades. Cool.
Feb 15th
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Feb 15th
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Feb 15th
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Spiffing Apps for your iPhone: Put it off →
Worth the price of admission just for the demo.
Feb 15th
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Apple bites man: Macs are nothing more than style... →
Yes, it’s all ‘whoosh’, ‘swoosh’ and ‘check this out’, but only in a very bad way. There’s the Star Trek-style ‘dock’, where you access your applications from what appears to be a bouncing castle fashioned entirely out of stupidity. ‘Finder’, the interface for dealing with files scores a bore draw with Windows Explorer. Web...
Feb 15th
December 2009
10 posts
titlepage: evidently my year 9 girls have found my tumblr. hello girls. How did they find you? Just out of interest. Did they search for your tumblr using carefully selected keywords, or was it something you said out loud that tipped them off?
Dec 3rd
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“Addicted to a medium in which every fleeting thought seems worthy of recording...”
– Late mail on writing - Books - Entertainment - theage.com.au
Dec 3rd
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“As a critic, one of the main tasks is trying to figure out the book the writer...”
– Late mail on writing - Books - Entertainment - theage.com.au
Dec 3rd
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“Award-winning writer Neil Gaiman (one of our Most-Creative People) started a new...”
– Neil Gaiman, the BBC, and 124 Twitterers Make Fiction | Not Quite Conversation | Fast Company
Dec 3rd
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Dec 2nd
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Dec 2nd
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Dec 2nd
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Dec 2nd
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“So, here are 10 commandments to do right on social media, build up a following...”
– 10 Commandments for Writers Using Social Media | Meryl.net
Dec 2nd
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How can my Tumblarity possibly be 4?
After months of my Tumblarity resting securely on 0, for some reason it shot up to 4 today. I think it’s because i posted a couple of articles yesterday. I wonder what it will be tomorrow…
Dec 1st
November 2009
47 posts
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“This is a viewpoint echoed by David Carr in a fascinating post over at The New...”
– Automated AOL News: Heralding the Future of Online News Writing? | Technomix | Fast Company
Nov 30th
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Wireframes Magazine →
Nice stuff on using wireframes to design interfaces.
Nov 29th
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Nov 29th
*Phew*! You can still download Netscape 2.02 Gold. Yippee! http://bit.ly/072fjM8 Now i need to download Win98..
Nov 23rd
All the trending topics are DEAD DULL. I mean, what even is “MM”? Is it music monday? So there’s music. Like, duh. Plus, it’s TUESDAY!
Nov 23rd
“Assign tweets to your colleagues for follow up. Finally, a way to Get Things Done on Twitter.” Yeah. Finally. Hurray, cotweet.com: U da Man
Nov 23rd
http://www.resumebear.com/blog/index.php/2009/04/10/30-ways-to-loose-a-job-on-twitter/
Nov 22nd
Things you shouldn’t say on Twatter: http://www.resumebear.com/blog/index.php/2009/01/11/what-not-to-say-on-twitter/
Nov 22nd
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“Speak in the first person. Use your own voice; bring your own personality to the...”
– IBM Social Computing Guidelines
Nov 22nd
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Informal Learning 2.0 →
Nov 22nd
A: “What’s Wendy’s surname?” B: “Wendy who?”
Nov 22nd