Monthly Archives: January 2008

Poet Billy Collins: the theme of poetry is death

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Pro Blogger’s essential blogging apps on the mac

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 Powered by ScribeFire. addthis_url = … Continue reading

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Freelance switch: becoming a freelance web worker

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 … Continue reading

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

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 … Continue reading

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more about Songbird

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 … Continue reading

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going home

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. addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fpeijinchen.com%2Fblog%2F2008%2F01%2F26%2Fgoing-home%2F’; addthis_title = ‘going+home’; addthis_pub = ”;

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Macbook Anorexic

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. Technorati Tags: anorexic, macbook air, laptop, parody, satire, apple, computers, IT, internet, pictures Powered … Continue reading

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

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 Blogged with Flock … Continue reading

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Working In Close | 43 Folders

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, … Continue reading

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HIV Art: paintings done with HIV+ blood

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