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knitr: Elegant, flexible and fast dynamic report generation with R | knitr

"The knitr package was designed to be a transparent engine for dynamic report generation with R, solve some long-standing problems in Sweave, and combine features in other add-on packages into one package (knitr ≈ Sweave + cacheSweave + pgfSweave + weaver + R2HTML::RweaveHTML + highlight::HighlightWeaveLatex + 0.2 * brew + 0.1 * SweaveListingUtils + more)."

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5 weeks ago by Vaguery

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Denis Wood’s Dissertation – I Don’t Want To But I Will (PDF) « Making Maps: DIY Cartography

"The front matter, including the dedication (by the Shirelles), the notorious acknowledgements (my unhelpful faculty and the rare humans), credits (as in a movie), and Introduction (opening with Ed’s story, a night watchman on the edge of Castle Hill park, and going on to talk about psychogeography and various kinds of mental maps)."

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8 weeks ago by Vaguery

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The Lean Publishing Manifesto - Leanpub

"A book or a startup is best created by 1 or 2 people, who are the authors or founders.

You can create a book with 3 or 4 authors, but essentially all the great books have been written by one author. In fact, if you have more than 4 authors, you're not even really producing a book–you're really producing an anthology of individual essays."

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october 2011 by Vaguery

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If You Lived Here

"How can you help? We're looking for readers' all-time favorite secondary worlds, from Middle Earth to Ring World, from Dune to Lankhmar and beyond...

We're taking nominations now. Just fill out the form below and submit it. That simple. If you feel like waxing poetic about your favorite second world, we might ask you if we can use what you write when it's time to go to press. Regardless, we'll keep you updated about which worlds get picked, and about the book as it gets closer to publication."

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july 2011 by Vaguery

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Am I a science journalist? | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover Magazine

"And I think that all of this makes it one of the most exciting times to be a science journalist. It means a more diverse array of science journalism. The new approach doesn’t replace the old (that’s a straw man) but it does complement and enhance it. I call it to the Cambrian explosion of science journalism. I actually think that most people in this field get this and are excited by it."

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june 2011 by Vaguery

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Mushrooms and Literature - Justin Erik Halldór Smith

"Nabokov famously told the story of the Cornell student who beseeched him to divulge the secret of great writing. 'Learn the names of plants', Nabokov is said to have said. He surely did not mean the Linnean names (though those can help to add an extra flair of erudition); he meant the Russian-English-French names that turn the things into repositories of human lore and values and fears."

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june 2011 by Vaguery

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MultiMarkdown

"Version 3.0 Released!

MultiMarkdown version 3.0 is now officially available! For more information about the changes in 3.0, checkout the User’s Manual

Note that MMD 3.0 is a major change from version 2. Read about it before upgrading, and don’t upgrade five minutes before a major project is due…."

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may 2011 by Vaguery

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Forkbombr — Guest Post: Markdown is the new Word 5.1

"Markdown will never be unreadable by a program, because it’s just ASCII text. It’s formatted, but if you’re reading the raw text, it’s not obscured the way a raw HTML file is. Any decent editor will give you a word count and can use headings as section and chapter breaks. With MultiMarkdown the options get even crazier: render your text file as a LaTeX document, or straight to PDF, or any number of other things. All from a text file and an editor with a minimal interface."

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may 2011 by Vaguery

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stevenberlinjohnson.com: The Glass Box And The Commonplace Book

"WHEN TEXT IS free to combine in new, surprising ways, new forms of value are created. Value for consumers searching for information, value for advertisers trying to share their messages with consumers searching for related topics, value for content creators who want an audience. And of course, value to the entity that serves as the middleman between all those different groups. This is in part what Jeff Jarvis has called the “link economy,” but as Jarvis has himself observed, it is not just a matter of links. What is crucial to this system is that text can be easily moved and re-contextualized and analyzed, sometimes by humans and sometimes by machines."

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april 2010 by Vaguery

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Writers write because we must, and other untruths - Coyote Crossing

"What makes you think that once we write that text we “simply have to write because we’re writers,” that we’ll be compelled to put it somewhere where you can read it?"

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april 2010 by Vaguery

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Finding Ada

"Please join us on March 24 for Ada Lovelace Day
Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging (videologging, podcasting, comic drawing etc.!) to draw attention to the achievements of women in technology and science.
Women’s contributions often go unacknowledged, their innovations seldom mentioned, their faces rarely recognised. We want you to tell the world about these unsung heroines, whatever they do. It doesn’t matter how new or old your blog is, what gender you are, what language you blog in, or what you normally blog about – everyone is invited. Just sign the pledge below (click ‘pledge’ after you have completed the reCaptcha) and publish your blog post any time on Wednesday 24th March 2010."

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march 2010 by Vaguery

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Ezra Klein - Book: The remix

"If a d.j. can thread together twenty different songs and package the end product as her own, why can’t a writer? This seems to be the question Hegemann is using as a defense. Original content, then, becomes subordinate to context, meaning that as long as a newer, larger work is being created, portions of prior works are fair game."

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february 2010 by Vaguery

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Dumping on your readers « It Doesn't Have To Be Right…

"Yes, make it part of the narrative. But even then, you’re often still explaining something which doesn’t really need explaining. Does it matter how the hyperspace drive works if all it needs to do is to get the protagonist from A to B? Too much exposition in science fiction stories has nothing to do with the story – it’s the author showing off their setting. For many readers, this is required. It’s immersion."

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february 2010 by Vaguery

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Pseudonymity, Blogging, and Journalism Versus Marketing : Mike the Mad Biologist

"Hell, if someone wants me to write a professional science-only blog where I talk solely about science in my capacity as a known scientist, then they'll have to pay me like a professional (just like those whiny Nature bloggers get paid)--and I already have a full-time job, thank you. Like I said, that's not what we do here. Nor will we: it cheapens the blogging.

An aside: Something that people seem to forget is that one of the strengths of ScienceBlogs, in my opinion, is that many bloggers here are professional research and educators, not full-time professional writers."

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february 2010 by Vaguery

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The Top of Our Game: Interesting Times : The New Yorker

"Anyone covering Washington, not excluding me, will sooner or later turn to a phrase like “refocus its image” or “a perception that the President has come to look” or “a pitch-perfect recital of the populist message,” because they come so easily, and because they make it unnecessary to say anything substantial, which means thinking hard and perhaps suffering the consequences. Still, as an exercise in accountability, political journalists should ask themselves from time to time: Would I write this about a war, or a depression? In the same vein, a government official once told me that the best way to cover Washington is as a foreign capital—as Baghdad, or Kabul."

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february 2010 by Vaguery

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A ‘Lowprofit’ Future for Science Journalism? « Thoughts on…

"But how do you present that disclosure? A link in each web article that jumps to a spreadsheet of donors and dollar signs, and let the reader judge? Conversely, many people trust NPR and PBS as a news source, but are satisfied by the simple roll call of sponsors and slogans.

So how do we present this information and context honestly and tactfully? It reminds me of a discussion at ScienceOnline2010 promoting fact-checking policy disclosures. What if you could only afford to fact-check 10% of your reporters’ articles? Does that disclosure give your readers more or less confidence in your service?"

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february 2010 by Vaguery

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Poynter Online - Romenesko

"Under the new plan, EWA will immediately shift from a traditional membership organization to an open community, embracing a wider net of people concerned about the quality of education information. The organization will create 21st century mechanisms for supporting traditional writers in real time while adopting creative advocacy on behalf of first-rate sustainable journalism."

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january 2010 by Vaguery

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The Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar: A List of Links for the Lawyers Among Us

"We've been meaning to post this list of links to the language essays of Robert Cumbow for ages. He's a lawyer in our home town of Seattle. Enjoy!"

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december 2009 by Vaguery

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OnFiction: Writing as Thinking

"Since that interview Howard has written a memoir, The man who forgot how to read. While he was writing it, I met him on the street one day, and he said he was feeling a bit miffed because he had wanted to write a memoir about several aspects of his life, but his editor wanted "the stroke, the whole stroke, and nothing but the stroke." In the book he has sneaked in something of his very interesting life, as well as what happened in the aftermath of the stroke. Between them, Howard and those who read his externalized thoughts back to him have written a wonderfully insightful and engaging book."

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november 2009 by Vaguery

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Crowdsourcing Arabic->English translation in the Geneva airport - terrycojones's posterous

"Today I met an extraordinary Iranian man in the Geneva airport. He's written a 1000 page book in Arabic about (at least in part) his experiences in Cyprus. He approached me, asked if my English was really really good, sat next to me, and started pulling out several pages of hand-wrtten uppercase English. He had me go over them, improve them, write some new text as he read his Arabic in halting English, told me exactly how he wanted it to sound, pressed me to find shorter ways to say things, and finally got me to write out (for his next helper, no doubt) a clean copy of all my work...."

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october 2009 by Vaguery

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myliblog: Uncle Bobby's Wedding

"Your third point, about the founders' vision of America, is something that has been a matter of keen interest to me most of my adult life. In fact, I even wrote a book about it, where I went back and read the founders' early writings about the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. What a fascinating time to be alive! What astonishing minds! Here's what I learned: our whole system of government was based on the idea that the purpose of the state was to preserve individual liberties, not to dictate them. The founders uniformly despised many practices in England that compromised matters of individual conscience by restricting freedom of speech. Freedom of speech – the right to talk, write, publish, discuss – was so important to the founders that it was the first amendment to the Constitution – and without it, the Constitution never would have been ratified."

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october 2009 by Vaguery

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William Deverell: Our national snobbery disorder - Full Comment

"That attitude carried on to seduce academic libraries and graduate English courses, where students were made to believe that Hugo and Dostoevsky, Maugham and Conrad had not written crime and spy novels. The virus still flourishes in our schools and cultural institutions; our self-appointed guardians of culture still leave genre writers off the literary tea guest lists. She writes mysteries, my dear, she'll show up reeking of gin. Or you get: He writes thrillers? How crass. It's so American.

"Popular fiction" has become a term of vulgar connotation, but it reeks of ironic paradox: obviously we sobersided Canadians ought to be reading unpopular fiction. (As an aside, reflecting an antithetical American attitude, I once got a rejection from a publisher down there who complained a manuscript was "too literary for the genre.")"

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september 2009 by Vaguery

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The greatest analyst of Marxism who ever lived (Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog)

"We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are."

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september 2009 by Vaguery

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Copyediting: Man vs. Machine - (37signals)

"Lesson learned: Don’t be so quick to dismiss the old in favor of the new just because the new seems like it should be better. There’s a lot of subtlety that can be communicated in a pen stroke that can’t be fit into a rigid digital rule."

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september 2009 by Vaguery

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Clive Thompson on the New Literacy

"It's almost hard to remember how big a paradigm shift this is. Before the Internet came along, most Americans never wrote anything, ever, that wasn't a school assignment. Unless they got a job that required producing text (like in law, advertising, or media), they'd leave school and virtually never construct a paragraph again."

writing literacy cultural-norms cultural-assumptions pedagogy transformation social-media education social-norms
august 2009 by Vaguery

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Poetry Archive

Except, goddammit, that RealPlayer sucks.

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june 2009 by Vaguery

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Sweet Juniper!

"I happen to believe that this blog tells a positive story. It is the story of a family unsatisfied with a typical yuppie trajectory in San Francisco who intentionally moved to the most maligned city in America. It is the story of a man who finds that city beautiful in ways that may be difficult to understand at first, though if you stay long enough he'll try to explain. It's the story of thousands of people around the world who for some reason return to this website despite having no connection to this failing Rust Belt, one-industry town wounded by racism and poverty but surviving with a compelling grace. This is, I believe, ultimately a story with hope: another family choosing to root itself where so many are warned never to go. A city full of beautiful people surviving among the ruins. Strangers who come here to read with care and concern in their hearts. A seed that germinates in words never before read."

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may 2009 by Vaguery

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Luis von Blog: Academic Publications 2.0

"Can a combination of a wiki, karma, and a voting method like reddit or digg substitute the current system of academic publication?"

[A: yes]

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april 2009 by Vaguery

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All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing

"Can we learn anything from all this? Going back to the triumph-of-evil quote, we may ask, how can we defend ourselves from the bogus quote? It is clearly unreasonable for anyone to have to prove a quote bogus...."

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april 2009 by Vaguery

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6 Ways to Publish Your Own Book
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march 2009 by Vaguery

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Clarkesworld Magazine — Issue 30
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march 2009 by Vaguery

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The Programming Aphorisms of Strunk and White (James Devlin)
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october 2008 by Vaguery

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kung fu grippe - How to Blog

Find your obsession. Every day...

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october 2008 by Vaguery

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Stet. « The Edge of the American West

"... We’d hate that to happen to you, because you can actually write, and having giles coren is a sanctimonious little twat who needs to get over himself could be quite costly in T-shirt lettering...."

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september 2008 by Vaguery

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The Dollar Dreadful Family Library
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august 2008 by Vaguery

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PdF2008 Talks: Doug Rushkoff on the New Renaissance

Please, entrepreneurial startuppy convocations of the movers-and-shakers of local human-scale community-supported life with programming and Your Very Important Book: watch and hear. Watch. Hear.

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july 2008 by Vaguery

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Crooked Timber » » The perfect exam paper

Also may be useful in biology and biochemistry, amazingly enough.

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june 2008 by Vaguery

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The Federalist - Contents
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march 2008 by Vaguery

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TED | Talks | Dave Eggers: 2008 TED Prize wish: Once Upon a School (video)

The key: "...it needn't be bureaucratically untenable."

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march 2008 by Vaguery

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"basic tenant of" OR "fundamental tenant of" - Google Search

simple renters?

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march 2008 by Vaguery

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SSRN-The Rising Size and Complexity of the Patent Document by Dennis Crouch
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february 2008 by Vaguery

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Games * Design * Art * Culture

"Criticism understands that "good" and "bad" are just the surface. What's more important is why, and how, and to what end."

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february 2008 by Vaguery

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Machine Learning (Theory) » The Meaning of Confidence
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february 2008 by Vaguery

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Eric el pescado. « The Edge of the American West

"[W]e were determined not to let a passion for unassailable little truths draw in the horizon and crowd the sky down on us."

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february 2008 by Vaguery

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Laudator Temporis Acti: Chiasmus, Part I

recombination

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february 2008 by Vaguery

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languagehat.com: BENJAMIN ON STORYTELLING.

"SHOW, DON'T TELL"

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february 2008 by Vaguery

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Bazerman
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january 2008 by Vaguery

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Big Brains, Small Impact - ChronicleReview.com

"The decline of public intellectuals correlates with the rise of Richard Posner."

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january 2008 by Vaguery

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Mathemagenic: learning and KM insights - 14 November 2007

"Information overload exists, but mainly inside our heads."

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november 2007 by Vaguery

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BookMarks - Books to Blogs & Back
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november 2007 by Vaguery

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Derek Powazek – Launching a Magazine the Un-Dumb Way

"Content may want to be free, but it doesn’t always want to be big."

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november 2007 by Vaguery

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I Read These Papers So You Don't Have To

"It would be unfair to compare the author's methodological advice to enjoining us to remember to breathe..."

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november 2007 by Vaguery

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Stanislaw Lem by warrenellis.com
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october 2007 by Vaguery

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Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog: Why is academic writing "boring"?
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september 2007 by Vaguery

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Peter Suber, Open Access News

Copy editing might help utility of scientific results. Or not.

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july 2007 by Vaguery

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In Pursuit of Mysteries » Advice from Authors

"Don’t become a well-rounded person. Well rounded people are smooth and dull. Become a thoroughly spiky person. Grow spikes from every angle. Stick in their throats like a pufferfish."

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july 2007 by Vaguery

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UsefulChem » Alicia Holsey

Wiki-editing a Masters Thesis, live.

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july 2007 by Vaguery

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Synthesis - That’s what I do, I synthesize. » Open Science

Another live thesis editing experiment.

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july 2007 by Vaguery

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Home : Nature Precedings
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june 2007 by Vaguery

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scottberkun.com » Blog Archive » How to write a rude Q&A
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june 2007 by Vaguery

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Easily Distracted » Blog Archive » “Citation Plagiarism”

"[A] lot of scholarly writing in the humanities and some social sciences uses citation as a marker of institutional sociology, as a performance of intellectual identity, as an affect of authority rather than the substance of it."