A new site called IWriteLike.Me claims to analyse your writing and tell you which author's style you most resemble. I tried it with a couple recent blog posts and got Dan Brown (great! ). On the other hand, when I copied in the recent article I wrote for real money and with a bit of […]
I'm about as far from a Pitchfork following, Fleet Iver Weekend-listening hipster as you'll find. But I do have friends who fit that category and a recent visit to Vancouver where I got to catch up with one of those friends also introduced me to a new singer-songwriter who I think is probably very much […]
Most Anticipated Books of Summer & Fall 2010 What's A Great Book For Somebody Trying To Figure Out What To Do With Their Life?Please Recommend History/Science Books Similar to “Cosmos” or “Guns, Germs and Steel”Books That Will Induce A Mind Fuck
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“The Swinger is a bit of python code that takes any song and makes it swing. It does this be taking each beat and time-stretching the first half of each beat while time-shrinking the second half. It has quite a magical effect.”The Swinger(via MetaFilter)
Former Golden Girl and definitely not-the-typical Saturday Night Live host, Betty White actually *was* the host of last night's show, mainly because of an Internet campaign that started on Facebook. Here's an article that details some other examples of Internet campaigns affecting pop culture.
How many times have you been reading a book, come across a great quote and then, unless you're really anal diligent and somehow transcribed it, ended up forgetting all about it? I've always thought that the tipping point for e-books would be something that easily allowed you to track these quotes as you came across […]
Here's a good article poking holes in the fallacy that only women read. It's actually a bit of a chicken and the egg thing – do only women read because publishers only produce books targeted at women because those are the ones that have been the most successful in the past? This is probably true […]
I recently gave kudos to the book “Crowdsourcing” which I'd just finished reading. You know a book's a good one when you're still thinking about it a few days later and you know it's a great one when you keep thinking of ways its lessons might apply in your everyday life beyond that. Very briefly, […]
