Y! MIndset

—Y! MIndset An interesting Yahoo! search engine that places “Shopping” and “Research” on opposite ends of a sliding scale, which you can adjust in order to change the weightings of of search results. Similar:Pushing and pulling vertices. Components that fit together perfectly when I model them in …AestheticsThere’s No Longer Any Doubt That Hollywood Writing…

Top 100 Speeches

—Top 100 Speeches (American Rhetoric) Full-text of all, and audio versions of most. Part of a good collection of rhetoric links on Metafilter. Similar:The daughter is working hard as a dancer and Flaemchen understudy. @frontporchtheatricalsCultureHelp! I may be running out of excuses for not wearing…Help! I may be running out of excuses fo…CultureTips to Improve HappinessKing…

The Plot Flickers

There may be a coming generation who will know the literary classics only from television’s adaptation of them, but that knowledge is better than no knowledge at all. I’m a novelist, so I’m hardly going to argue against the irreplaceable conditions of prose, the pattern and rhythm and truth of good writing. But literature is…

Real vs. media world

Maybe when Joe and Mary Sixpack compare the real world they live in with the consistently troubled, violent, sensationalized world the news media present to them day after day, they notice the obvious discrepancies. A perfect example is crime coverage. If you relied only on newspaper front pages and TV news — as so many…

BBC staff go on strike

HUNDREDS of BBC journalists and production staff in Manchester are to go out on strike today in protest at planned job cuts. —Nicola Dowling —BBC staff go on strike (Manchester Online) Similar:Flying Saucer IronyAmusingAffect (v. "to change") vs. Effect (n. "the result")I ran into this problem several times in…AcademiaVisionary #StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch (Season 3, Episode 17)…

Gemini: Marketers of Brand Name Accessories — About Us

To assure its continued success, Gemini has further increased it’s [sic] exposure to retailers and consumers alike with innovative marketing and a successful brand[-]building strategy. The For Dummies brand was recently added to Gemini’s stable of product lines. With it’s [sic] recognizable brand name, For Dummies compliments [sic] the current Gemini brand profile that includes…

Dear Card Reader

Dear Card Reader (Jerz’s Literacy Weblog) Dear Card Reader, Where are you? I’ve been looking everywhere for you. You pick the most inopportune time to disappear, because I have a 1GB SD card to futz around with for the summer. You weren’t under the cushion of the comfy chair, though I did find 13 pens, one…