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Recommendation FAIL

CNN’s recommended stories widget makes my head asplode. Stories you may be interested in based on past browsing: My REAL life as a call girl Check out Michelle Obama’s fashions Three important steps to...

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Your Revolution Sucks

Prologue, in which your hostess lists why she Thinks She Knows Stuff Since I’m suggesting that other people are wrong, I figure a rundown of my own credentials (or lack thereof) is in order before we...

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How Not to Sell Books

Someone on the Feathermoon forums has decided to prove how cool he/she is, proudly proclaiming how he/she slams customers coming in to buy books in the Twilight series.  I’ve stared at the thread off...

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Geek is the New Hip? Count Me Out

So, there’s this new website, “The Society for Geek Advancement.”  They made a video.  How cute!  In it, a smattering of geeky icons (Wil Wheaton, LeVar Burton, and Jonathan Coulton among them) proudly...

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NaNo-ish Things Part 2 (The Useful Post)

Okay, now that I’m done navel-gazing, how about some things I’ve found helpful and not-so-helpful during NaNos of the past for those of you who are gearing up to participate for the first time? Before...

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In Which Your Hostess Gets Annoyed

Weekend word count: 1382 Total word count: 9711 I’m about 4,000 words behind.  I’m okay with this. Spent a chunk of Saturday with google maps, making sure the route the characters take in flight makes...

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The Kids Are All Right

Oh, look, someone’s clutching their pearls and saying “Won’t anyone think of the children” without actually thinking of the children. Or even talking to any of the children. Again. Meghan Cox Gurdon...

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