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r03> by holding down the right ctrl key and pressing scroll lock twice
r03> neato bandito
r03> quit laughing at my pretzel
AB> that sounds almost useful
AB> this is windows, of course?
!! devnull is around.
r03> oh yes, of course
r03> I am sure it can be useful for debigguing or something
r03> what the hell did i just type?
AB> debiggening
AB> aka ensmallening
AB> unensmallenation may require certain pills
AB> ...certain pills that the discerning enbiggener can purchase at my not-at-all shady website for a measly $100/box
!! cornpone is around.
!! Dyskolos is around.
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The following are suggestions for the best magazine articles (in English) ever. Stars denote how many times a correspondent has suggested it.
This is a work in progress. It is a on-going list of suggestions collectively made by readers of this post. At this point the list has not been vetted or selected by me. It is incomplete.
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While watching a team of tree surgeons cut down an 80-foot diseased pine tree nestled between his property and neighbors' property, Jim Trelease thought of how much the process reminded him of having to read a book you don't want to read. Sometimes the mere "required" label on the book makes it difficult to swallow—yet swallow we must.
The end result of that thinking was a nine-minute video Trelease posted to various video web sites. The target audience is reluctant-reader preteens and teens but the contents apply equally well to reluctant-reader adults.
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A while back I had the opportunity to interview one of our greatest living novelists—Haruki Murakami. He spoke for about an hour at the midtown offices of his publisher, Random House. At the time, Murakami had just released and was promoting his fourteenth book, After Dark. We didn't meet to discuss the novel, though. Instead we talked about the transcendent possibilities of great fiction. When I asked him about his favorite book of the past fifty years, here's how he responded.
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If you're looking to stock your summer reading list YourNextRead is a simple and crowd-driven tool for finding out what book you should read next based on the ones you've recently finished.
Tell YourNextRead what book you just finished—and enjoyed!—and it will generate a web of eight related books. You can click on any of the books to learn more about it which will, in turn, generate a new web that's based on that book. Alternatively you can use the thumbs up/down buttons to agree or disagree with the suggestions that YourNextRead gives you.
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Happle Tea is a comic written and drawn by one Scott Maynard and is the only comic that excoriates religion, pop culture, and politics while, at the same time, lauding the world of cryptozoology.
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When we were reviewing 10 of the best online resources for free books, we had a LOT of readers chime in with their own favorites as well. Thank you for all your helpful contributions!
In fact, we had so many suggestions, we have enough to compile a huge list from them, so here they are in no particular order:
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Only 24 books are produced for every tree felled. But book-swapping websites could provide a solution for the eco-aware reader.
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Still outlawed by regimes around the world, Animal Farm has always been political dynamite – so much so, it was nearly never published. Christopher Hitchens on George Orwell's timeless, transcendent 'fairy story'
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After 90 years, one of Canada's oldest magazines, The Beaver, is changing its name.
Its publishers say it was only natural that a Canadian history journal should have been named in honour of the industrious dam-building creature which is the country's national emblem.
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John Lanchester, the acclaimed author who has written a gripping account of the financial crisis, argues that it is too outrageous to work in a novel, and asks why the world of work features in so few modern stories
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When, one evening in 1976, Philip K. Dick invited Tim Powers to his Fullerton apartment, the Cal State student expected the kind of night he often passed with the science-fiction titan: a wide-ranging conversation, fueled by wine and beer, about religion, philosophy and Beethoven.
The night began the usual way. But it took a strange turn as Dick's wife, Tessa, and her brother began grabbing lamps and chairs. "She and her brother were carrying things out of the house," recalls Powers. "I said, 'Phil, they're taking stuff, is this OK?' "
" 'Powers, let me give you some advice, in case you should ever find yourself in this position,' Dick said. 'Never oversee or criticize what they take. It's not worth it. Just see what you've got left afterward, and go with that.'
"And then," Powers recalls, "her brother said, 'Could you guys lift your glasses? We want the table.' "
Dick was an old hand at marital dissolution. Tessa had reached her breaking point, and that evening marked the beginning of what would become his fifth divorce. The author could bounce in and out of love affairs, stints in rehab and drug overdoses -- all the while never losing his cool.
This time, though, the nonchalance wouldn't last. After Powers left, Dick took 49 tablets prescribed for a heart condition, along with other pills. He slashed his wrist and sat in his car, parked in his garage, so the carbon monoxide would finish him off.
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Get an accountant, abstain from sex and similes, cut, rewrite, then cut and rewrite again – if all else fails, pray. Inspired by Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing, we asked authors for their personal dos and don'ts
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Innsmouth Free Press is a fictional newspaper publishing faux news pieces – lovingly called Monster Bytes – in a Lovecraftian/Cthulhu Mythos universe, as well as original short fiction stories. We also feature some of Lovecraft’s classic tales.
Innsmouth Free Press is a collaborative effort. We want readers and writers to help us map out and flesh out Innsmouth and the surrounding area, and to do it in epistolary form through news stories, opinion pieces, lifestyles articles, which blur the boundaries between fantasy and reality. Metafiction, if you will.
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Yvonne Prinz is a co-owner of Amoeba Music who also happens to have written a new book geared toward teens called Vinyl Princess. The book chronicles a summer in the life of 16 year old vinyl infatuated Allie while she works at the fictional Bob & Bob's Records on Telegraph and blogs about her love of music.
her blog
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