It’s funny that people think in the age of the Internet, you can plagiarize and it won’t be noticed. All it takes is one person to notice, and since the blogosphere loves outing plagiarists, you’re done. So really, all plagiarism these days is pretty stupid. But I think this case deserves special attention: It all [...]

Last Friday, Golf Channel announcer Kelly Tilghman joked that Tiger Woods’ opponents should gang up on him and “[l]ynch him in a back alley.” Let that sink in for a minute. Tilghman’s apology statement said she “used some poorly chosen words…I have known Tiger for 12 years and I have apologized directly to him. I [...]

free office materials flickr:velo steve 1 clipboard Avery Multi-Purpose white Labels Cornell College mini-notebook 10 used vanilla folders ..Please come pick up tonight (Monday) if you can. Thanks. ****Many Items***** MUST SELL wall scones $5 a pair Mmmmm-mmmm.

Well, not well. But I did keep a journal, of sorts, that explains, at least in part, what it’s like. I’d hate for the journal to be shoved into a dark corner and never see the light of day, so read on:

How’d YOUR Nanowrimo go? (I’ll tell you about my trainwreck later.)

This is the seventh in a weekly series about tools for writers. For the rest of the series, go here.) When you just don’t have inspiration for that fantasy or sci-fi epic, visit They Fight Crime! for the most creative story-starters ever. Examples: He’s a witless neurotic gentleman spy haunted by an iconic dead American [...]

So now that I’ve complained about how Nanowrimo steals a month of your life away and you’d have to be CRAZY to want to sign up, another perspective, excerpted from my post over at Dailywritingtips: Kickstart Your Writing With Nanowrimo Nanowrimo teaches important writing habits that no fiction writer can afford to ignore: 1. Discipline: [...]

I don’t know what sparked it, as I haven’t thought about this in almost two years, but today I found myself at Nanowrimo‘s website, thinking about signing up. Nanowrimo–or National Novel Writing Month–turns November into Crazember, asking would-be writers and published novelists alike to crank out 50,000 words before December 1. This is your brain [...]

Flickr:mrjorgen New findings have uncovered a design flaw at the interface where the brain encounters a computer screen: there are no online channels for the multiple signals the brain uses to calibrate emotions. Face-to-face interaction, by contrast, is information-rich. We interpret what people say to us not only from their tone and facial expressions, but [...]

DC has introduced some new (to me) safety alerts that play while you are waiting in a station for your train. There’s the usual “If you see any unattended bags or suspicious behavior, please report it,” which is nothing strange. Then there is some bizarre recording comparing escalators to alligators. DCist has the text version [...]