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Kevin Smith on Amazon’s Internet TV Show

Thursday, July 13th, 2006

I was at Amazon.com, was successfully promoted to, and checked out the Amazon Fishbowl with Bill Maher. It’s essentially a half-hour TV show served on Amazon.com. There’s a brief interview with Kevin Smith, which I suppose is pretty unremarkable. Later in the episode, you can watch the Indigo Girls and a subsequent, awkward interview with […]

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New Topics from the Library of Congress

Monday, July 3rd, 2006

Via Robot Wisdom, Harper’s Magazine recently published a list of new Library of Congress subject headings that received Dewey Decimal numbers last year. Here are a few:

Accountants in motion pictures
Black humor in art
Blondes in motion pictures
Condom use
Drug abusers
Exaggeration (philosophy)
Family secrets

After Will hassled me, I’m trying out Flock again. This is my first blog post from […]

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The Best Article I’ve Read About Writing for the Web

Sunday, May 28th, 2006

At least, it’s the best article I’ve read in 2006. It’s by Mark Bernstein (not that Mark Bernstein), and I wish I’d written it. There are a few points I disagree with, but they’re well argued. It’s full of excellent advice:
If you don’t really care, don’t write. If you are a student and everybody is […]

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