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Hating on B&N Right Now
I have a B&N gift card to spend, so I decided to use it. Okay, cool. So I found some books online (my first mistake)that added up to a bit over $25 so I could get free shipping and get more actual...
View ArticleVoter Disenfranchisement in Pennsylvania
From the Field Negro: The first story is just about your basic racist idiot (and I’ll agree with anyone who thinks it’s uncool to make fun of the guy for being fat, jerkwad or not), but the second one...
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Writer Hit by Trademark Bully
I’ve been watching this one develop all day, since I saw John Scalzi’s post about it, and things look to be turning around for the writer involved. Still, she’s still pretty firmly in suckland at this...
View ArticleSerials, or, How to Make Your Readers Hate You
Can we talk about serials for a minute? I know serialization is supposed to be the hot new way of sucking extra money out of readers. (Oops, was I not supposed to say that out loud?) But you know, most...
View ArticleScalzi Comments on Random House/Hydra Deal
John Scalzi doesn’t make a major point of discussing big publishers messing over writers, so when he does, you know it’s bad. He looks over a deal sheet Random House’s new electronic imprint Hydra is...
View ArticleOn Free Speech
Far too many people these days seem to think that freedom of speech means freedom from being criticized, freedom from consequences, freedom from verbal retaliation. We need only look at the response of...
View ArticlePolitical Phone Spam
Dear American Political Candidates: Okay, I know you’re all exempt from the requirement to refrain from cold-calling the people on the National Do Not Call List. Of course you are — Congress is made up...
View ArticleQuoting Now Equals Libel?
So apparently linking to an article where someone is quoted — with links to the original sources — as saying something that makes him look like a sexist asshat is now libel. That sounds like fun, so I...
View ArticleFollow-Up on the Libel of Quoting
I’m ridiculously busy right now so this is going to be short, but Mr. Sean Fodera, referenced in my previous post, has hired a lawyer to tell him that linking to an article that quotes him saying...
View ArticleThe Black Hole that is Facebook Advertising
In case anyone’s still using Facebook to market their work, Colleen Doran — comic writer and artist, who writes some great business posts when she’s not busy making a living — talks about why paying...
View ArticleBecause Telling Teenagers “No” Always Works
The principal of Booker T Washington High has stepped in to cancel one of their school’s summer reading programs rather than let the students read Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother, which is all about...
View ArticleYay Noise :/
Sometimes I wish I lived in a town with suckier sports teams. There are explosions going off in my neighborhood, and a few minutes after it started, Jim called up the stairs to let me know it’s because...
View ArticleWhat Are We Paying For Again…?
From ABC News: An internal investigation of the Transportation Security Administration revealed security failures at dozens of the nation’s busiest airports, where undercover investigators were able to...
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Cover Design
Chip Kidd has been doing book cover design for Knopf for about twenty-five years, and has done some awesome work. He discusses it, with illustrations, in this TED talk, which is well worth a watch,...
View ArticleMarriage Equality, Finally
The Supreme Court finally grants marriage equality. Try as they might, people opposed to marriage equality haven’t been able to come up with any rational reasons for their stand. “Because our god...
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Model Deals with Dirtbags Online
So Emily Sears is a model, and like many models, she posts pics of herself online regularly. It’s part of the job, building her reputation and brand, all that good stuff. But there are dudes online who...
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