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This 27-Year Old Makes Millions Writing... →
Amanda Hocking sells her novels through Amazon, without any publisher or agent, for 3 bucks each. She has almost no overhead and has made millions.
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For the Love of Beer -Celebrating Women in the Beer Industry | Kickstarter
Filmmaker Alison Grayson is looking for folks to help her fund the completion of her documentary on women in the beer industry. She’s already reached $1,810 of her $5,500 goal. Click above to watch a short preview of the film.
For the Love of Beer is looking to raise funds for post-production and...
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Sometimes I really wish we could create a few extra seats in Congress and allow them to go to the highest bidder. That way corporations could just outright buy senators and representatives if they wanted. Schmucks like Joe Barton and Tom Coburn could stop pretending to have the interests of the people on their minds and just be honest about purely serving the needs of major corporations. It...
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Followup on e-readers
Thanks for all the comments guys. DRM and digital longevity issues seem to me like the only things of real concern at the moment, but that could change in the future. E-readers are such a recent phenomenon that much of their impact is really yet to be felt.
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Can anyone present me with an argument against...
I’m really not trying to be snarky here. It’s just that every few weeks I feel like I see something like this post, in which someone waxes poetically about how many fond memories they have with books. I have those too, but I also have them for VHS tapes. I don’t remember anyone being so up in arms about the arrival of DVDs.
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-2-13) →
MF DOOM (54)
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis (14)
Fugazi (13)
Scissor Sisters (12)
Kind of Like Spitting (9)
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Ed Rondthaler on English spelling (by Bob Smartner)
Explaining this to my ESL students was a lot of fun.
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Cargo cults and Celebrity Worship
A cargo cult is when indigenous tribes encounter someone from modern civilization and perceive their technology as a supernatural gift from the gods. After the modern explorers/anthropologists leave, taking their “magical” technology with them the tribes will sometimes attempt to mimic or replicate the technology of the westerners with whatever materials available in the hopes of...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-2-6) →
Battles (12)
Rage Against the Machine (12)
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis (4)
The Who (4)
Papercuts (2)
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