A discussion with Cormac McCarthy and John Hillcoat. There’s some information about the film adaptation of The Road, his next novel, and insight into McCarthy’s process. I’m not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing. McCarthy also decided to part with his typewriter, it sold at auction for more than a quarter million dollars. He’s not going digital though, a friend bought him the same Olivetti model to replace the old one.
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Cormac McCarthy on The Road
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December 11 2009, 8:46pm | Comments »
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Improving the UK plug. A new design that works in the...
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Improving the UK plug. A new design that works in the traditional UK outlet, as well as creating a space-saving multi-plug layout. Those plugs are bloody huge, you know damn well that you’re plugging something in.
December 11 2009, 12:18am | Comments »
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Warlock consult
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British police consulted a warlock in regards to mysterious horse mane braiding. Honestly, I don’t know what’s weirder: seemingly random horse braiding, or the fact that the police consulted a warlock.
December 10 2009, 11:59pm | Comments »
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Catching the pest
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How China won and Russia lost. An interesting read on the driving factors behind China’s apparent economic success and Russia’s failure, while implementing seemingly similar policies. The gist of it is that many of China’s reforms came bottom-up, gradually making their evolving from rural agrarian practices, while Russia’s reforms used a top-down government mandated approach.
December 10 2009, 11:55pm | Comments »
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Teux Deux
Simple browser based to do list. To play with later.
December 10 2009, 11:40pm | Comments »
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Bookstore stupidity
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Stupid Quotes from BookMine. You can only wonder what goes on in the heads of some people.
December 10 2009, 11:52am | Comments »
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Bike lanes are the devil’s work
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Hipsters repaint bike lanes. This made me laugh, it had to have been fun to write. Scantily clad hipster cyclists attracted to the Brooklyn neighborhood made it difficult, the Hasids said, to obey religious laws forbidding them from staring at members of the opposite sex in various states of undress.
December 8 2009, 5:05pm | Comments »
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Mario couldn’t jump
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Satoru Iwata discusses the Mario brothers with Shigeru Miyamoto. The interview is quite revealing — many of Mario’s trademark characteristics were due to design and programming restraints at the time, including the moustache, the hat and the overalls.
December 6 2009, 7:33pm | Comments »
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HTML5
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/
Draft specification for html5
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December 4 2009, 8:54am | Comments »