I had no idea Starbucks charges for wi-fi access. I guess I thought the profit margin on a four-dollar cup of coffee would cover the overhead on a thing like that. Segue to a plug for our local independents: Our writing group has been meeting nearly every week at Cville Coffee for about three years [...]
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Don’t know if you can follow this link, but Netflix has lifted the limits on how many movies you can “watch instantly” from their site. Mr. Glass and I never came close to hitting our previous limit (we’re uber-subscribers) but now we don’t have to worry about it. The streaming videos are a good way [...]
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From The Economist: ON A May evening in 1864, several British politicians were disturbed by a knock at the door and the delivery of a telegram—a most unusual occurrence at such a late hour. Had war broken out? Had the queen been taken ill? They ripped open the envelopes and were surprised to find a [...]
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Too busy clearing out spam to read the classics? Put that email inbox to some good use and sign up at DailyLit. You’ll receive your choice of available books, one easy-to-digest installment at a time. (HT: Catherine!)
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The MacArthur Fellows have been announced. Corey Harris of Charlottesville and Marc Edwards of Virginia Tech are among the distinguished winners of the renowned “genius grants.”
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Sigh. I don’t even like iTunes for music. What do you think about ebooks and ebook readers? Like so many people (see comments here, for starters), I have an attachment to books as objects. But I suppose I could get used to ebooks, given the right reader. It would require an interface vastly superior to [...]
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You know, this World Wide Web thing might just work out after all. The always interesting Conversational Reading links us to this interview with Aaron Swartz, whose latest initiative is a Web 2.0 project called Open Library: Open Library is a new online tool for finding information about books – even (perhaps especially) for titles [...]
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It pays to check your referrals. I was reviewing today’s stats for Cville Words, and included in the list of today’s referrals was a link to the Google Books entry for The Sheltering Sky. I get quite a few hits on this blog for The Sheltering Sky — maybe it’s something people read in school? [...]
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Just wanted to call your attention to a comment on one of my previous posts. Matthew Lowes points us to yWriter, whose author in turn recommends Freemind mind-mapping software. Spacejock.com also has some articles on writing and publishing you might enjoy. So, enjoy!
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