the gist, tumbld
Shorter posts, notes to self, and links to various posts across various sites. If I published it somewhere, it's mentioned here. By Will Hindmarch of wordstudio.net.
Seen on the Cutting-room Floor →
This text was recently cut from the project that Will and I have been working on for the past couple of months.
Don’t use a space or a hyphen when writing “roleplaying,” as in, “roleplaying…
Wed 14 May
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Ablogalypse →
The Burmese cyclone called Nargis has killed tens of thousands of people.
The earth is trembling beneath Taipei, Tokyo, Illinois and, now, a killer earthquake in China is felt in Thailand.
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Mon 12 May
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In Which I Post From Athens →
Hoping to catch up on blogging a bit, I wrote the following short notes to myself while I was in Athens, GA this weekend. They are a poor excuse for actual writing, but what’re you going to do? A…
Sun 11 May
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Where are the new fiction markets? →
Futurismic ponders the future of short fiction markets, and even recalls The Escapist’s new fiction issue along the way. This is a top that interests me a great deal these days, and there’s good links in this post.
Sun 11 May
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Milestone One →
“What he gets are peripheral glimpses of data, like the reflection of a computer screen in the dead-air static of the television. He doesn’t read the information in this reflection because he can’t…
Thu 08 May
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Spitting Art, Everywhere →
The missus and I love the magazines put out by 8020 Publishing: JPG and Everywhere. These are community-driven magazines with reliably eye-opening content, from photos to essays. JPG is…
Wed 07 May
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“What was going on was the banks were in effect giving money away. You had to ask the question, it’s not a standard part of American business practice for American banking practice is to give away money, especially giving away money to poor people. Giving away money to CEOs is one thing, but to give away money to these subprime mortgage borrowers who are among lower income Americans just was a very peculiar thing and what was going on?”
—Lateline - 05/05/2008: Award winning economist says America has bankrupted itself with the Iraq war
Tue 06 May
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World of Darkness: Metaphor Monsters →
As a kind of author’s note, I’m cross-posting this piece I wrote on RPGnet this morning, in response to the question of resemblance between the World of Darkness (of Vampire and Changeling) and…
Thu 01 May
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Metaphor Monsters →
Here’s something that I wrote this morning on RPGnet in response to a question about how much the World of Darkness game world should resemble the real world. The World of Darkness is, of course,…
Thu 01 May
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2008 Origins Nominees →
Word has it that these are the final nominees for the 2008 Origins Awards. The annual question: How much do you care? What does an Origins Award mean for you or for the product? And, for me, the…
Wed 30 Apr
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Funny Online →
Wil Wheaton’s TNG reviews are always hilarious, but this one is especially funny because my Twitters are in it. I increase the funny of all things by 1-2%, according to FDA studies.
Tue 29 Apr
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State of the Playtest →
“They told me it was like being born, but how the hell could they know that? Do they remember being born? I’ll tell you what it’s like: It hurts. Your whole body is being forced through a tiny hole…
Sun 27 Apr
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Really Important Stuff Ends →
For the last two weeks, I’ve been trying to write a memorial and failing.
Thus, all commentary about writing and endings is blown up to twice its size for me lately. It’s all swollen with injected…
Sun 27 Apr
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“Herodotus says, ‘Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.’”
—Mark Twain
Sun 27 Apr
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