8 REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD WRITE WITH A FOUNTAIN PEN
I just like writing with fountain pens. Others may need a little more prodding. Consider yourself prodded.
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Aimee Mann: Fame is the worst (Salon.com)
It’s the last phase of the Weimar Republic. Right before someone swoops in and takes over. I mean, I don’t mean to …
Read more...10 Things Most Americans Don’t Know About America
The sooner we start understanding this, the sooner we can become a good neighbor to the rest of the world…or at least …
Read more...Fantasy Armor and Lady Bits (Mad Art Lab)
I find the absurd inappropriateness more distracting than anything. It sets me to thinking about how vulnerable and/or uncomfortable the warrior is …
Read more...Opinion: Video games and Male Gaze – are we men or boys? (Gamasutra)
We really need a lot more game designers who are not of the Male Gaze variety — whatever gender they happen to …
Read more...How Artificial Intelligences Will See Us (io9)
What if XNet exists in a thousand robots, and they all decide for some weird reason that humans should stand completely still …
Read more...Shiny! Top 10 reasons why seafarers love Joss Whedon’s Firefly | Deep Sea News
God, I love this show. Shiny! Top 10 reasons why seafarers love Joss Whedon’s Firefly | Deep Sea News.
Read more...Why I Write “Strong Female Characters”
As someone who also tends to write “strong female characters”, I applaud this article. via Why I Write “Strong Female Characters”.
Read more...Soraya Chemaly: A Message to Girls About Religious Men Who Fear You
Fear lives in the shadows of our hearts. It’s easy to exist there, close to the ground, so you don’t have far …
Read more...How Much Is an Astronaut’s Life Worth? (Reason.com)
“NASA’s irrational approach to risk undermines its mission and costs thousands of lives.” Sadly, it’s a direct result of our PR-obsessed, risk-averse …
Read more...Lincoln High School in Walla Walla, WA, tries new approach to school discipline — suspensions drop 85% « ACEs Too High
We do a lot of thing wrong in America compared to other countries. Treating our kids like automatons or pieces on a …
Read more...Hollywood Loves a Sequel — But Really, SOPA 2? | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Can we just ban the MPAA already? It’s not really doing much of anything that’s particularly useful. Hollywood Loves a Sequel — …
Read more...Why We Have to Go Back to a 40-Hour Work Week to Keep Our Sanity (AlterNet)
“Working long days and weeks has been incontrovertibly proven to be the stupidest, most expensive way there is to get work done.” …
Read more...Tennessee legislature boldly sets the science clocks back 150 years | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine
I also wonder how the Tennessee lawmakers would feel if, say, teachers used this potential law to teach about Islam, or astrology, …
Read more...THIS is why we invest in science. This. (Discover Magazine)
Because when we invest in science, when we invest in space, when we invest in exploration, we always, always get far more back in …
Read more...How to Deal with Writers Effectively in One Easy Lesson (Preposterous Twaddlecock)
This also applies to art, illustration, photography, and web design. After a while, you learn why contracts are so important — but …
Read more...Former Lakers standout and Sparks coach Cooper learning lessons at USC – LA Daily News
“[Women’s basketball players] play the game the way we played it in the ’80s,” [USC Coach Michael] Cooper said. “It takes all …
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