November 2011
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How to do a barrel roll IRL
Thanks to an engineer at Google you can type “do a barrel roll” into search, and it will roll your browser view around and around. I didn’t even know this was a meme until today.
My dad’s a pilot and a different sort of engineer, so I sent him an email about the Google trick, and this is what he wrote back:
The barrel roll was my favorite aerobatic maneuver when I was a...
August 2011
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July 2011
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June 2011
5 posts
ami with an i: It Depends →
amiwithani:
Because I am a giant publishing nerd who enjoys tempests in teapots, last week was basically off the scale in terms of excitement. The New York Times weighed in on whether or not bookstores should be charging for author events, launching a thousand blog freakouts about whether this is elitist…
May 2011
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ill iterate: Dear BEA Publishers →
iamilliterate:
It used to be all you needed to get published was rohypnol, a turkey baster and ten minutes with Sonny Mehta. Today, a book’s marketing gimmick is developed so far in advance of the actual book you can actually get a deal with just a mockup of its eventual hashtag.
So let me cut to the chase….
April 2011
5 posts
She Was Wearing Eyeliner
Last week I asked the Twitter and the Facebook to recommend a black eyeliner that doesn’t make you look like you’ve just rescued a kitten from a storm drain. This is what they said.
Juliet Ulman (@papertyger), “Use Urban Decay Primer Potion and then Mac Fluidline. Fluidline ‘Blitz & Glitz’ is AWESOME, & I am the smudgiest smudger who ever smudged. Primer...
March 2011
12 posts
“A purely private, personal memoir would not interest me much; it was the...”
– Paris Review – Joyce Carol Oates on ‘A Widow’s Story’, Miranda Popkey
Love JCO. This interview is great.
(via thenewchrissy)
Mother Jones magazine on Tumblr: The best... →
motherjones:
You should, like, strongly consider applying to work for this guy:
We want to add some talent to the Sarasota Herald-Tribune investigative team. Every serious candidate should have a proven track record of conceiving, reporting and writing stellar investigative pieces that provoke change….
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Mia's Imaginary Knuckle Tattoos
I like a nice writing constraint and for a while have been obsessed with the notion of knuckle tattoos. In my mental rule book (rule book — that’s on the list) it has to be an actual bell-ringing phrase of two words, each word having four letters. You get no points for fooling around beyond that constraint. Granted, some like CMYK ISBN are a stretch but it’s more about the pattern, the...
10 Million and 40 Characters
Some of my old MintJelly blog posts now seem incredibly long to my twitter-constrained eyes.
Even my titles were long! Hilarious.
“Grumpy IT Guy Responds to Your Articles about Electronic Publishing” addresses the perception problems tech people, and technology itself has in the book industry, and reminds everyone how well we’re already getting along.
“Book Expo America...
February 2011
4 posts
January 2011
5 posts
So easy
Customizing the site has been so easy, as soon as I knew where to look. Playing with the CSS. Thinking about type. Picking out and going with all my favorite colors. Tried to test through a Color-Blind filter but the DNS hasn’t finished propagating so it’s evaluating the old site. Which was fine, natch.
A theme
I’ve just installed the Rank and File tumblr theme. So far so good. Simple, but with all the features built in, this theme should be easy to tweak with a custom logo, fonts, and perhaps removing the “black bar-i-ness” it’s got going on. Most designs are too fussy or too slick, the themes offer no features or they’re trying too hard to emulate print or ephemera. Oh...