Indie writers and self publishing
Boing Boing has a mini round up of the self publishing phenomenon and indie writers. They mention Amanda Hocking, who is, apparently, the most successful …
Last one on Gaga, I promise
I know I’ve been ranting about the Born this Way video today already. But there is something that has been bugging the hell out of …
Character Witness
If an unborn fetus is now allowed to testify, then in the event that (deities forbid) I find myself in legal trouble, I am calling …
Qwiki: storytelling for websearch
March’s issue of Wired has an article on the new search engine Qwiki. I was intrigued by what they said (the article was too short …
Nobody is born this way
Let me preface this by saying: I loved Gaga’s first album. It was good dance music (one can argue it was also mostly inconsequential, but …
Why we should be proud spinsters
This past weekend I was re-reading some articles by Howard Zinn about the badly documented role of women in American history. His piece focused specifically …