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Once, when I was small and pixels were big
I had some free time on Friday, so I busted out Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest for a couple of hours, and ended up beating it just after midnight. It was so nostalgic watching that dull, uninspired, pixelated ending again. I … Continue reading
Big Media’s Anti-Everything Wishlist
My crackpot take on Big Media’s latest anti-infringement wishlist: Two trade representatives are on a flight bound for the annual Conference of Copyright Conglomerates. On hearing the captain’s announcement that the plane will be landing soon, the first trade rep … Continue reading
TV Won't Steal Your Vision After All
A recent Scientific American article offers up some insight regarding that modern-day question of the ages: Does TV ruin your eyesight? I know until I hit my mid-teens, my mother was always yelling at me and my brother to “sit … Continue reading
Pretty Women Dumbify the Male Sex
This Telegraph article isn’t telling us anything we don’t already know. The basic finding is that men use up so much of their brain juice trying to impress attractive chicas that they have little left to perform other mental tasks … Continue reading
The New Literacy
Clive Thompson has an article over at Wired.com that hints reports of the death of writing may have been greatly exaggerated. Before the Internet came along, most Americans never wrote anything, ever, that wasn’t a school assignment. Unless they got … Continue reading
Today Becomes Yesterday
A recent tweet / twit / twat (whatever the heck you call it) over at my Twitter page has got me thinking about the deaths of Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, Walter Cronkite, and many others. Not to be a gloomy … Continue reading
Young Adult Rules
I’m always somewhat nervous whenever I put a young(ish) character into a questionable situation involving nudity, sex, violence, or all three simultaneously. This quote from The Rejecter made me breathe a sigh of relief: Really, anything goes in YA these … Continue reading
MagCloud Counts on Homebrewed Magazines
Several POD services offer magazine trim sizes (in addition to standard book sizes), but Hewlett-Packard hopes to create its own niche with their latest foray into the DIY world: MagCloud. I only know this because The New Podler posted a … Continue reading
Beating the Odds
Despite brutal economic conditions, several independent publishers managed to find ways to grow both their sales and profits in 2008. How did they do it? They are not afraid to be frugal—forgoing advances in favor of offering higher royalties, for … Continue reading
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer Goes Post-Print
Another print outfit, this one the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, has decided it’s time to go 100% online. Oddly enough, this makes me feel just the slightest bit more comfortable with my status as an online-mostly author. Why? Because the “legitimate” publishing … Continue reading
