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Link 42 Essential 3rd Act Twists
Dresden Codak's handy comic-chart of '42 Essential Third-Act Twists' for writers.

October 21 2009, 3:19pm | Comments
Link Atheism: class is a distraction
For some reasons it seems to be anathema to say that there might be an intrinsic reason for the correlation between educational level and the rejection of religion: atheism takes…

October 15 2009, 8:14am | Comments
Link An Interview with W. Brian Arthur
Technology so pervades our culture that it's sobering to consider how poorly we understand it. How do new tools and techniques arise? What principles guide their evolution? And how does…

October 4 2009, 4:26pm | Comments
Link Fictional Stimulus
Fictional Stimulus is a reading experience for people who like books and are curious about the future of literature in the digital world. It's an introductory taster for those new…

September 28 2009, 8:54am | Comments
Metafilter Offsetting sea level rise: An engineering idea of Biblical… The seas are rising. Climate change has made it inevitable. I have a strange question... Assuming that world sea-level rises by 1 metre over the next hundred years…

September 18 2009, 8:12am | Comments
Link HOW TO: Write a Novel Using the Web
Though you’ll still have to do your writing using the old fashioned method — one word at a time — web applications and social media have made the process of…

September 17 2009, 12:27am | Comments
Link 3quarksdaily Philosophy Competition (Judged by Daniel Dennet)
So, here it is, the final list that I am sending to Professor Dan Dennett, who will select the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd prize winners: (in alphabetical order by blog…

September 13 2009, 8:37am | Comments
Link On the Impossibility of Drawing a Map of…
by Umberto Eco

September 8 2009, 9:15am | Comments
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July 12 2009, 3:54pm | Comments
Link Dual Perspectives Article
Not long ago mass media was about the only kind of culture there was. The lucky few creative works that made it into general circulation were what copyright law was…

June 16 2009, 3:08pm | Comments
Link How Nuclear Radiation Can Change Our Race
This is a remarkably uninformed article about what effect a huge nuclear war would have upon the human race. The author seems to think that the radiation would create a…

June 6 2009, 9:36am | Comments
Link Presentation Zen: Making presentations in the TED style
TED has earned a lot of attention over the years for many reasons, including the nature and quality of its short-form conference presentations. All presenters lucky enough to be asked…

May 12 2009, 3:06pm | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: Part One

May 4 2009, 7:17am | Comments
Writing for 3quarksdaily Writing (Hyper)text and Image
A Polyptychal Discursion: This text, designed with its own concerns in mind, diverges on many trajectories, crossing over itself, intersecting its arguments and statements…

February 23 2009, 8:07am | Comments
Metafilter New theories of Mimesis (in digital/hypertextual/ hypermedial cultures) I am looking for writings on mimesis in regards new, digital, hypertext and hypermedial technologies and cultures. I am following the redefinition of mimesis. From Plato's disregard of…

February 16 2009, 8:09am | Comments
Link Simon Biggs
Website and interactive portfolio of artist

January 30 2009, 9:02am | Comments
Writing for Spacecollective The Total Library Project
Books that redefine reality - or - How to redefine the book...

January 29 2009, 3:58am | Comments

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