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These exercises are particularly aimed at writers who are white Americans; most of them may not seem especially unusual for...

I've (reluctantly, and for the time being) shifted over to using Apple's Mail.app exclusively--Eudora was too crashy, and Odysseus won't...

I've been seeing this a lot lately, in a wide variety of contexts, so I figured rather than bringing it...

Helen Merrick has started a list of female scientist characters in fiction, especially in science fiction. It's part of a...

A year ago, some New Orleans locals put the official evacuation maps online, at contraflowmaps.com, in a nicely interactive Google...

One of the things I've been doing now and then over the past couple weeks, usually when I should've been...

Back in late June, two people were murdered in the house next door to where I live. A couple days...

Part n of the standard "why don't people read guidelines?" complaint: We usually get maybe two or three stories a...

I've been sadly remiss in sending people birthday greetings, both here and in email. So a quick happy birthday this...

I've been wanting a digital photo frame for quite a while. It seemed like a great solution to the question...

Twig just pointed me to a fascinating article about preventing impulsive suicide, by Scott Anderson. I found the first couple...

Amazingly cool: the Long Now Foundation's Rosetta Project has put together something called the Rosetta disk. (Official page.) It's three...