Kottke has a swell interview with "Proust was a Neuroscientist" author Jonah Lehrer
february 2008 by jimray
"After a few hundred pages of melodrama, I began to realize that the novelist had these very modern ideas about how our memory worked. His fiction, in other words, anticipated the very facts I was trying to uncover by studying the isolated neurons of sea
science
writing
writers
interviews
tumbl
february 2008 by jimray
Tech media is dying as ads shift to blogs and Google
july 2007 by jimray
Good riddance to the hyper-opinionated, barely concealed ad copy that was most tech "journalism" anyway. If only someone could make Arrington go away, too.
media
advertising
writing
tumbl
july 2007 by jimray
The Open Library
july 2007 by jimray
A new, incredibly ambitious project from Aaron Swartz and Brewster Kahle, to catalog every book in existence.
books
writing
libraries
via:daringfireball
tumbl
july 2007 by jimray
Writers do it with 12pt Courier
may 2007 by jimray
Slate asked a bunch of professional writers to pick their fave font, an alarmingly high number picked Courier
fonts
design
typography
writing
writers
tumbl
via:snarkmarket
may 2007 by jimray
gSpell is an OS X service that uses the Google spell check algorithm
april 2007 by jimray
Wicked cool because it includes all kinds of statistical anomalies and colloquialisms that the average dictionary doesn't know about. Smart!
google
writing
software
mac
tumbl
via:daringfireball
april 2007 by jimray
Cliche Finder
january 2007 by jimray
Slicker than deer guts on a door knob (which is only a cliche if you're from Georgia or Alabama)
via:10ch
writing
funny
january 2007 by jimray
Wordie
december 2006 by jimray
"Like Flickr, but without the photos" Fucking hilarious!
funny
socialsoftware
writing
writers
language
foo
december 2006 by jimray
Ghosts in the Machines
october 2006 by jimray
Neil Gaiman on the things that haunt. "Fear is a wonderful thing, in small doses."
writers
writing
halloween
fear
october 2006 by jimray
Wired collects six word stories from a bunch of scifi writers
october 2006 by jimray
Easy. Just touch the match to
writers
writing
scifi
foo
october 2006 by jimray
Ezzay Fo' Shizzle
october 2006 by jimray
Yet another reason why the internet was invented -- to mock high school students (thanks, Resh!)
via:kidethnic
writing
education
awesome
funny
kidsthesedays
october 2006 by jimray
Writing resources from Chuck Palahniuk
october 2006 by jimray
Hey, Resh! Man, I owe you a phone call or at least an email...
writing
writers
october 2006 by jimray
Markdown2Book
october 2006 by jimray
Textmate bundle for compiling documentation written in Markdown to HTML
markdown
webdev
writing
textmate
html
october 2006 by jimray
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Unused Audio Commentary By Howard Zinn & Noam Chomsky, Recorded Summer 2002, for The Fellowship of the Ring Platinum Series Extended Edition DVD, Part One
september 2006 by jimray
"And observe the map device here — how the map is itself completely Gondor-centric."
via:merlinmann
funny
culture
politics
writing
literature
parody
war
september 2006 by jimray
The Ultimate Blog Post
september 2006 by jimray
[this is good]
bloggers
weblogs
writing
funny
parody
september 2006 by jimray
Inka - The Inka Pen
august 2006 by jimray
Where have you been all my life?
via:merlinmann
pens
wishlist
gadgets
writing
august 2006 by jimray
Adam Gopnik takes a look at the president's summer reading list
august 2006 by jimray
"But it is the sunny optimism of humanism to imagine that books change lives, and that no one can come away from 'The Stranger' entirely unaffected, particularly one who is, as he reminds us, a wartime President."
literature
writing
politics
august 2006 by jimray
Guardian reviews Paris Hilton's album
august 2006 by jimray
"I know music," she reassured the Sunday Times children's section. "I hear it every single day."
awesome
via:stereogum
music
music?
writing
august 2006 by jimray
Go to the Web, young journalist!
march 2006 by jimray
Sweet, editors are finally coming around instead of just yelling "get off my lawn you damn kids!"
media
jobs
writing
march 2006 by jimray
storySouth / southern barbecue BBQ culture and foodways
march 2006 by jimray
"And there, breaking the waves of amber light, still as any Buddha, is the man, the father — Big Daddy, they call him — of the ‘cue."
barbecue
south
culture
food
writing
march 2006 by jimray
A Million Little Lies
january 2006 by jimray
The Smoking Gun thinks James Frey's 'A Million Little Pieces' was fabricated
books
writing
writers
fraud
january 2006 by jimray
Wonkette's Sex Change
january 2006 by jimray
Ana Marie is leaving the blog behind to be a full time writer, which is kinda sad. I hope her novel writing gets better, as I've not heard a single good thing about Dog Days.
bloggers
politics
writing
writers
january 2006 by jimray
Amar Sagoo - Tofu
december 2005 by jimray
App for reading text better on your mac
mac
design
writing
software
december 2005 by jimray
Creating Passionate Users: Have you updated your buzzwords?
december 2005 by jimray
"If I were a VC, the "elevator pitch" I'd ask for would be simply: 'Tell me how this thing helps the user kick ass?' If you can't answer that, don't bother launching your power point."
weblogs
bizdev
satire
writing
startup
wingmanifesto
december 2005 by jimray
MacDevCenter.com: HTML Tools on the Mac Command Line
november 2005 by jimray
textutil was a new one for me
mac
unix
writing
november 2005 by jimray
Journler
november 2005 by jimray
Slick looking journal/lifetracking software
mac
software
gtd
productivity
writing
november 2005 by jimray
Antarctic Artists and Writers Program (nsf04558)
october 2005 by jimray
Sure. Why not.
travel
writing
october 2005 by jimray
Gary Benchley, Rock Star
october 2005 by jimray
A novel by Paul Ford
writing
writers
bloggers
wishlist
october 2005 by jimray
Ars Technica's Jon Siracusa is blogging
september 2005 by jimray
His super in-depth writing is great, it's good to see him take on a blog
weblogs
mac
hardware
writing
via:daringfireball
september 2005 by jimray
The Blue Technologies Group : Ulysses
september 2005 by jimray
Nifty looking text editor, for people who hate traditional word processors
mac
software
writing
september 2005 by jimray
Pencil Revolution
august 2005 by jimray
In an age of hyperconnectivity, it's nice to see a simple blog about ... pencils
analog
writing
hardware
weblogs
august 2005 by jimray
A List Apart 4.0
august 2005 by jimray
Prettier and now powered by Ruby on Rails
desing
css
html
reference
writing
august 2005 by jimray
Gobby
august 2005 by jimray
Free, cross platform, multi-user text editor
collaboration
writing
opensource
software
programming
august 2005 by jimray
The Blissbat Review
june 2005 by jimray
A weblog about fiction about children, aimed at adults, by the insanely talented copywriting diva Erin Kissane
weblogs
2syndicate
writing
books
june 2005 by jimray
Great Writing creative writing community
june 2005 by jimray
Write better, or at least more British
collaboration
writing
via:milmillington
june 2005 by jimray
Dabblers and blowhards
april 2005 by jimray
Maciej Ceglowski doesn't think hackers are anything like painters [via Daring Fireball]
programming
art
writing
april 2005 by jimray
Moleskine Cahier Pocket Notebooks, MoleskineUS
february 2005 by jimray
Soft, small moleskine's for light use [via 43folders]
moleskine
writing
analog
february 2005 by jimray
Lama Li Travel Journal from Nepal, Lama Li
february 2005 by jimray
Alternative to the Moleskine?
journals
analog
writing
moleskine
february 2005 by jimray
Writing hacks
february 2005 by jimray
Poynter online implements GTD for writers
productivity
gtd
writing
february 2005 by jimray
Everything you Need to Know About Writing Sucessfully: in Ten Minutes
february 2005 by jimray
Stephen King parses how to be a good writer
writing
writers
february 2005 by jimray
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