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The Soulmen | We Got It! › Ulysses 2.0
Whether you're a blogger, a poet or a published novelist: Ulysses 2.0 is the *definitive* package for all your creative writing needs. Brainstorm, draft, revise, submit; distraction-free and fully focused. No strings nor styles attached.
writing  macosx  application  software 
january 2010 by jtth
Why I Slept with 1300 Women | OPEN Magazine
The affections of a woman have to be won through the peacock dance of success and refinement, or through the deceit of lies. And then sustained for years through many strange virtues, or more lies. The price of love, above all, is monogamy. One man decided to break free. And he slept with over 1,300 women paying them over £115,000. This is his story.
sex  prostitution  promiscuity  writing  art  writer  magazine  article 
october 2009 by jtth
A Guide to Alternative Handwriting and Shorthand Systems
The letters you are now reading, while well adapted to the eye to be read, are so ill adapted to the hand to be written that schools teach longhand as an alternative to printing them. The more cursive longhand is easy to learn, but only about 10% faster than printing. Alternative handwriting systems offer 100% or better improvements in handwriting ease and speed. If you could spend the rest of your life taking notes or keeping a journal/diary while writing two or three times faster, then, gee, why not?
shorthand  handwriting  penmanship  alphabet  gregg  pitman  typography  writing  history  culture  education  communication  script  guide  misc  fun  interesting  language  calligraphy  info  code  howto  reference  lifehacks  systems  languages  productivity  article  learn 
august 2009 by jtth
Advice on designing scientific posters
A scientific poster is a large document that can communicate your research at a scientific meeting, and is composed of a short title, an introduction to your burning question, an overview of your trendy experimental approach, your amazing results, some insightful discussion of aforementioned results, a listing of previously published articles that are important to your research, and some brief acknowledgement of the tremendous assistance and financial support conned from others—if all text is kept to a minimum, a person could fully read your poster in under 10 minutes.
conferences  powerpoint  presentation  teaching  guide  science  writing  academia  conference  work  graphics  advice  reference  phd  poster  graphic  school  howto  design  communication  academic  tutorial  posters  presentations  tutorials  research  tips 
august 2009 by jtth
WordNet - About WordNet
WordNet® is a large lexical database of English, developed under the direction of George A. Miller. Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are grouped into sets of cognitive synonyms (synsets), each expressing a distinct concept. Synsets are interlinked by means of conceptual-semantic and lexical relations. The resulting network of meaningfully related words and concepts can be navigated with the browser. WordNet is also freely and publicly available for download. WordNet's structure makes it a useful tool for computational linguistics and natural language processing.
reference  tools  research  software  opensource  search  free  writing  ai  language  data  english  academic  analysis  database  linguistics  semantic  words  nlp  dictionary  word  semanticweb  ontology  semantics  wordnet  thesaurus  lexical  lexicon  synonyms  dictionaries 
july 2009 by jtth
F-Shaped Pattern For Reading Web Content (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
F for fast. That's how users read your precious content. In a few seconds, their eyes move at amazing speeds across your website’s words in a pattern that's very different from what you learned in school.
accessibility  eyetracking  nielsen  reading  ui  marketing  website  patterns  layout  pattern  usability  content  interface  webdev  webdesign  writing  visualization  research  psychology  tips  development  internet  articles  technology  web  interesting  design  reference  article  science 
july 2009 by jtth
Books and papers every graduate students should read
These recommendations are sorted from general to specific: from resources for any kind of graduate student to resources for graduate students in my own field, static analysis. My criteria for inclusion are readability, self-containment, brevity and coverage. If you're a grad student at Utah, feel free to come by my office and borrow any of them for a day or two. (I've provided links for the books and papers I could find online; for the rest, I've provided amazon.com links to the most recent edition.)
writing  books  cs  resources  reading  phd  student  gradschool  presentations 
july 2009 by jtth
Tips to Graduate Students
Over the last number of years, I have had the honor to work with a group of excellent graduate students. The everyday interactions with the students have sharpened my understanding on what it takes to be successful in graduate study and how to make most out of it. I summarize what I see as important pieces that put together a successful graduate school endeavor.
graduate  student  tips  study  writing  technical  research 
july 2009 by jtth
You should follow me on Twitter | Dustin Curtis
I actually tried many more permutations than I show here. I only discuss the most interesting ones below and describe my thought process along the way.
blog  web  design  psychology  articles  writing  webdesign  ui  usability  blogging  data  inspiration  language  statistics  communication  optimization  marketing  conversion  testing  twitter  persuasion  copywriting  socialmedia  action  ux  clickthrough  abtesting  measurement  calltoaction  wording 
july 2009 by jtth
Relationships Between 10 Classic Authors - Neatorama
Lots of people know about the relationship between fantasy writers C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, but who know Bram Stoker stole Oscar Wilde’s true love out from under his nose? I didn’t, at least, so I think these relationships between classic authors are terribly interesting. I included Lewis and Tolkien for those who didn’t know about their friendship. There are a lot more where this came from - I might make this a two-parter. And if you’re impatient and don’t want to wait for my second part, check out the book Secret Lives of Great Authors by Robert Schnakenberg. Very interesting read.
writing  literature  relationships 
january 2009 by jtth
The Agrippa Files
Agrippa (a book of the dead) appeared in 1992 as a collaboration between artist Dennis Ashbaugh, author William Gibson, and publisher Kevin Begos, Jr. The Agrippa Files is a scholarly site that presents selected pages from the original art book; a unique archive of materials dating from the book’s creation and early reception; an emulation of Gibson’s included poem in its original born-and-die-digital form (it ran from a diskette once before encrypting itself into oblivion); a simulation of what the book’s intended “fading images” might have looked like; a video of the 1992 “transmission” of the work; a “virtual lightbox” for comparing and studying pages; full-text scholarly essays and interviews; an annotated bibliography of scholarship, press coverage, interviews, and other material; a detailed bibliographic description of the book; and a discussion forum.
gibson  cyberpunk  agrippa  williamgibson  hypertext  newmedia  death  scifi  interactive  fiction  poetry  literature  writing  history  book  technology  cool  art  media  archive  reading 
december 2008 by jtth
Daily Routines
The daily routines of famous people, mostly writers.
routine  writing  interesting  art  blog  inspiration  daily  work  life  literature  procrastination  process  organization 
december 2008 by jtth
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Atlas Shrugged Updated for the Current Financial Crisis.
OH WOW. I kind of hope someone was thinking along these lines while the idealized scheming occurred.
writing  rand  politics  objectivism  parody  literature  libertarian  humour  mcsweeneys  satire  shrugged 
december 2008 by jtth
Frank Sinatra Has a Cold - Gay Talese - Best Profile of Sinatra - Esquire
"Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" ran in April 1966 and became one of the most celebrated magazine stories ever published, a pioneering example of what came to be called New Journalism -- a work of rigorously faithful fact enlivened with the kind of vivid storytelling that had previously been reserved for fiction.
article  cool  research  humor  articles  history  writing  music  read  magazine  english  essay  reading  journalism  esquire  profile  sinatra  franksinatra  newjournalism  essays  gaytalese  cold  talese 
november 2008 by jtth
The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Ralph Waldo Emerson Institute has created this web site for the purpose of providing a digital archive of the life and works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, one of America's Founding Thinkers. We hope that you are able to find what you are looking for and that you find RWE.org valuable and interesting. We invite you to become an Active Member helping to support the work of the Institute.
ralph_waldo_emerson  writing  writers  philosophy  nature  mind  literature  library  emerson  books  transcendentalism 
november 2008 by jtth
The Lost Years & Last Days of David Foster Wallace : Rolling Stone
He was the greatest writer of his generation - and also its most tormented. In the wake of his tragic suicide, his friends and family reveal the lifelong struggle of a beautiful mind
writing  writer  wallace  suicide  read  profile  magazine  literature  rollingstone  davidfosterwallace 
november 2008 by jtth
Shirky: The Semantic Web, Syllogism, and Worldview
Any attempt at a global ontology is doomed to fail, because meta-data describes a worldview. (linked via http://www.twine.com/item/1182hjc4c-6b8/semantic-syllogism)
metadata  semanticweb  semantic  ai  artificial  intelligence  ontology  syllogism  shirky  writing  article  web 
june 2008 by jtth
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Ernest Hemingway Blogs About the Top Teams in College Basketball.
Roy Williams is soft. His hands look manicured. They have never pulled tobacco from the dirt. He has never gutted a fish fresh from the sea. Soldiers shoot soft men in the back rather than follow them into battle.
literature  writing  blog  hemingway  article  sports 
march 2008 by jtth
Digital pen - EPOS
A multi-functional tool, stored data can be later uploaded to a PC via a standard USB port. Once uploaded, handwritten information can be transformed to text using standard handwriting recognition software, and notes and drawings can be edited and shared
pen  gadgets  writing  digital  technology  hardware  usb 
december 2007 by jtth
A List Apart: Articles: Greatest Copy Shot Ever Written
So what makes good copy good? Perhaps we can find out by considering what’s made the best of the best…the best.
writing  copywriting  marketing  business  advertising  alistapart  copy  language  theory  text  interesting  inspiration  grammar  Psychology  advice  ads  content  copywriter  creative  creativity  phrase  linguistics  linguistic  usability 
december 2007 by jtth
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Borge's "The Garden of Bifurcating Paths"
borges  writing  prose  garden  forking  paths 
november 2007 by jtth
The Art of Worldly Wisdom by Balthasar Gracian. Search, Read, Study, Discuss.
A collection of 300 aphorisms on life and the way you should live, Balthasar Gracian's work has been used as a modern day guide to life much in the way that Sun Tzu's Art of War or Machiavelli's The Prince has.
philosophy  books  literature  lifehacks  advice  education  book  productivity  43folders  organization  wisdom  writing  reference  gtd  english  resource  resources 
november 2007 by jtth
Workshop
A pseudorandom event generator for NaNoWriMo.
random  writing  generation  events  event 
november 2007 by jtth
"Write now is good.": How to "win" National Novel Writing Month in 5 (no, 6) easy steps
With only one National Novel Writing Month victory under my belt, I'm hardly an expert on how to approach writing a 50,000-word novel in 30 days. But I do have some advice that, when followed, might help a NaNoWriMo-er "win" this strange, exhilarating con
writing  nanowrimo 
november 2007 by jtth
The Position - Forbes.com
"He's not actually completely naked. If you look closely, you'll see he's wearing a penis sheath, fashioned from a gourd indigenous to the La Chorrera region. He’s been dealing with stress by ‘discovering’ himself in the South American rain forest."
business  fiction  forbes  funny  future  money  stories  scifi  Story  warrenellis  writing 
october 2007 by jtth
The Best Online Research Apps/Sites You've Never Heard Of | OEDb
Research can be a time consuming and sometimes tedious task. How can you make it easier for yourself? While there is no complete substitute for a good old-fashioned trip to the library, you can find a wide variety of information with many research tools.
academia  academic  aggregator  article  blogging  reference  research  library  education  search  online  tools  writing  university  guide  guides  ideas  information  inspiration  internet  learn  learning  libraries 
september 2007 by jtth
Journler - Download Journler
Elegant, beautiful, powerful. Journler is a place for your thoughts and everything they touch. Stunning iLife integration, audio and video entries, inline support for all manner of media, nested folders and smart families, an importer gone mad and instant
mac  os  x  journal  writing  application  tool 
july 2007 by jtth
Shakespeare's Word & Phrases: Words Shakespeare Invented
In all of his work - the plays, the sonnets and the narrative poems - Shakespeare uses 17,677 words. Of those 1,700 were first used by Shakespeare. Writers often invent words, either by creating new forms of existing words or coining new words outright, b
shakespeare  neologism  etymology  drama  writing  linguistics  english 
june 2007 by jtth
How to punctuate a sentence - lifehack.org
Tips on how to use common punctuation in a proper fashion.
tips  writing  punctuation 
april 2007 by jtth
Will Whistler Work? at Rageous Music
Ever had the urge to create a song until you realized it was harder than it was worth? With Whistler, just whistle, hum or tap out your creation into music app importable form.
music  technology  mac  osx  apple  design  theory  writing 
october 2006 by jtth
Features : Radar Online
An awesome interview with John Hodgman, the PC from the Mac & PC commercials, the Daily Show contributor, and writer for The New York Times Magazine.
interview  article  dailyshow  politics  apple  johnhodgman  writing  books 
september 2006 by jtth
3quarksdaily
Time has been quite cruel to Timothy Leary’s best known prescription: that the mass indulgence of hallucinogens would result in a liberating transformation of American society. The “mystic vision” behind this bad notion actually belonged to the Beat
drugs  writing  poetry 
august 2006 by jtth
Guardian Unlimited Books | By genre | Philip Purser-Hallard on Philip K Dick and drugs
A look at the use of drugs and their influence on the writing of Philip K. Dick.
drugs  writing  scifi 
august 2006 by jtth
Non-Errors
Things that most people consider to be errors in English, but really aren't.
article  cool  read  creativity  reference  education  review  rules  english  fun  sociology  grammar  teaching  history  tips  howto  use  Words  humor  interesting  work  writing  language  list  literature 
august 2006 by jtth
Save $200 in 2 minutes and have the worlds best writing pen
How to convert a Mont Blanc ink carterage to work with a G2 cheapie pen.
art  article  pen  hacks  diy  howto  lifehacks  hack  cheap  business  design  fun  gadgets  Geek  hacking  humour  humor  interesting  make  productivity  tips  shopping  tools  writing 
july 2006 by jtth
defective yeti: Xyzzy
Iraqi Invasion: A Text Misadventure Revision 88 / Serial number 54892
article  blog  computers  fun  funny  game  humor  humour  literature  news  war  writing  wtf  iraq  bush  politics  games  Geek 
january 2006 by jtth
LA Weekly: Features: Death Race 2000
Death Race 2000 Horror filmmaker Eric Red crashed his Jeep, killing two. Then he slit his own throat. That was only the beginning by PAUL CULLUM
articles  interesting  news  writing  suicide  crime  film  horror  movies 
january 2006 by jtth
dallasobserver.com | News | Balls Out | 2005-06-16 | Printable
Balls Out How to throw a no-hitter on acid, and other lessons from the career of baseball legend Dock Ellis
crazy  dock  drugs  funny  games  health  humor  humour  writing  dockellis  History  lsd  sports  baseball 
december 2005 by jtth
11 Rules of Writing -- a concise guide to important grammar, punctuation, and writing style rules
11 RULES OF WRITING This site is a concise guide to some of the most commonly violated rules of writing, grammar, and punctuation. It is intended for all writers as an aid in the learning and refining of writing skills. Explore each of the rules to see ex
reference  writing  english  rules  grammar  Words  punctuation  webdesign  blog 
december 2005 by jtth
Harry Frankfurt's "On Bullshit"
On Bullshit Harry Frankfurt Princeton University One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share.
books  conservative  writing  philosophy  funny  bullshit  humor  misc 
december 2005 by jtth

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