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Entries from August 2008

Poet Billy Collins: the theme of poetry is death

January 31st, 2008 · No Comments

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Tags: America · books · literature · poetry

Pro Blogger’s essential blogging apps on the mac

January 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment

The list is all right, but unfortunately, ecto and marsedit both cost money.

14 Essential Mac OS X Applications for Bloggers via kwout

Technorati Tags: marsedit, ecto, blogging, apps, mac, apple, blogs, internet, tech, productivity
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Tags: Tech · computer

Freelance switch: becoming a freelance web worker

January 27th, 2008 · No Comments

this is just some of the stuff i am reading now when i ought to be sleeping…hoping that this will somehow prove useful down the line when i get back to really being concerned about making a living.

Becoming a Freelance Web Worker: Part 1, Why You Should Do It - FreelanceSwitch [...]

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Tags: Life

you need at least 6 thinking hats to make a decision right.

January 27th, 2008 · No Comments

Fuck. But the advice is pretty good, it means you have to use the various types of cognitive and thinking skills that you have. The problem is that if you buy Jung’s whole typology, that means that we are going to be skewed towards those ways of thinking that match our innate abilities and tendencies. [...]

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Tags: Life

more about Songbird

January 27th, 2008 · No Comments

i just downloaded Songbird and i think it’s pretty cool…interface is pretty easy to use and with the various search engines you can find mp3s
really easily…and then it lists them on the bottom, allowing you to download whatever you want. sweet.
and you can import stuff from itunes so migrating over shouldn’t be too much of [...]

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Tags: computer · film photography media · music

going home

January 26th, 2008 · No Comments

going home

Originally uploaded by monkeyking

a picture that i took today of a migrant worker, presumably going home for Chinese new year. my favorite of the batch.

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Macbook Anorexic

January 24th, 2008 · No Comments

MacBook Anorexic (pic) | MakeUseOf.com
i thought this was pretty funny…but i guess not that funny for anorexic people, and especially anorexic people that use macs.
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Tags: America · computer

Circle of Blue releases "Reign of Sand” report on the desertification of Southern/inner mongolia

January 21st, 2008 · No Comments

They make it sound pretty bad (which is probably because it IS that bad)–comparable to the environmental conditions that produced the Dust Bowl in the US in the 1930s.

Circle of Blue: Reign of Sand via kwout

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Working In Close | 43 Folders

January 21st, 2008 · No Comments

Working In Close | 43 Folders
This is a blog post on 43 folders about productivity/creativity, etc, and in this case, about the habits of the artist Chuck Close. It’s interesting–he had to force a lifehack because, according to him, he’s a lazy slob, and thus his style of painting somehow managed to circumvent that. [...]

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Tags: Life

HIV Art: paintings done with HIV+ blood

January 21st, 2008 · No Comments

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Tags: hiv, blood, artist, paintings, aids, disease, activism, US, art, culture

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Tags: America