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Frrrrriday Rrrrroundup! #62: 50-for-50 edition
Why “Write What You Like” is the real first rule of writing, with a hearty thanks to Austin Kleon for the assist.
An end-of-weekly roundup collecting fffffive of the fffffoxiest things I fffffind stumbling around the web. More about the genesis here. Every dang Friday Round-Up here, you procrastinating slacker! In a sort of meta-writing challenge, Scott Berkun deconstructed the process of writing a 1,000-word essay by writing, and screen-recording the process, in real-time, then narrating over it, a [...]
An end-of-weekly roundup collecting fffffive of the fffffoxiest things I fffffind stumbling around the web. More about the genesis here. Every dang Friday Round-Up here, you procrastinating slacker! What would Don Draper do? [Stumbled, via daring fireball] Hard to believe I watched this every weekend without appreciation how off-the-charts funky it was. [Facebook-ed] I don’t know what disturbs [...]
An end-of-weekly roundup collecting fffffive of the fffffoxiest things I fffffind stumbling around the web. More about the genesis here. Every dang Friday Round-Up here, you procrastinating slacker! “Simply put: you do not get to build a magazine around making women feel inadequate and then express astonishment and pity when they comply.” Outstanding and articulate rant. [Facebook-ed, [...]
As I love getting email, I respond to pretty much all of it. I mean, fair is fair, and as long as I can manage it, that seems fair. What I almost never do is share my replies with anyone but the sender. This is not, after all, an advice blog, nor am I an [...]
An end-of-weekly roundup collecting fffffive of the fffffoxiest things I fffffind stumbling around the web. More about the genesis here. Every dang Friday Round-Up here, you procrastinating slacker! The best (to date) in Kirby Ferguson’s outstanding “Everything Is a Remix” series, if this 10-minute video on The Elements of Creativity doesn’t get you fired up about making [...]
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Frrrrriday Rrrrroundup! #57
An end-of-weekly roundup collecting fffffive of the fffffoxiest things I fffffind stumbling around the web. More about the genesis here. Every dang Friday Round-Up here, you procrastinating slacker! A writer plays with Instagram. [Google Reader-ed] Why “funfeminism” is neither fun nor feminism. Great, great true-life stories in the comments thread. [Stumbled] Minimalism and frugalism can overlap, but [...]
An end-of-weekly roundup collecting fffffive of the fffffoxiest things I fffffind stumbling around the web. More about the genesis here. Every dang Friday Round-Up here, you procrastinating slacker! On girl-on-girl hate, gender double standards and other really super-tired patriarchal horseshit we should have retired with the corset. [Google Reader-ed] For anyone who’s leery of Groupon, sick of [...]
An end-of-weekly roundup collecting fffffive of the fffffoxiest things I fffffind stumbling around the web. More about the genesis here. Every dang Friday Round-Up here, you procrastinating slacker! Jesse the Jack Russell Terrier is pushing Nylabones these days. Oh, that one could come in every package. [Google Reader-ed] Part of getting down with the tremendous time of [...]
