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global project where readers leave photos of themselves insid books. amusing. - David de Beer

basic, common sense tips to id comment spam from legit commnts on your blog. useful. - David de Beer

a list of links to various writing prompts - David de Beer

From the page: "The pan flute is not a thing of one person, one name, one people, or one nation - it is a thing of all humankind. -Douglas Bishop" - David de Beer

this is especially funny if you've seen Conan the Barbarian recently, or remember it really well. - David de Beer

Alice Sebold shares some thoughts on literary awards. - David de Beer

some tips for writers on how to keep themselves fit and healthy. - David de Beer

From the page: "Their ability to consume well beyond their means, disregard all signs of approaching financial ruin, and then sit there like a fat duck waiting for solutions to appear is truly remarkable. Few nations achieve such excellence in one singular aspect of life" ouch. too much truth there. - David de Beer

a nice look in brief at John Grisham's hard, slow rise to become one of the most prolific selling authors of the modern era. - David de Beer

cute and true:) - David de Beer

From the page: "After two decades of defining ourselves in terms of our possessions,” Holly Brubach wrote recently in T: The New York Times Style Magazine, â€oewe now need to figure out who we would be without them.” I suspect that once this downturn plateaus and shrinks in the rearview mirror, weâ€ll just stock up on other possessions, which will be arrayed and arranged to show off not our personal aesthetics or expensive whims but our ethicsâ€"our progressive virtues." - David de Beer

a look 20 years after the glory days of a sports superstar. - David de Beer

From the page: "Has technologyâ€s ability to deliver information at such a rapid pace corrupted us? Itâ€s one thing to marvel at how social media sites have helped spread Iranian news we might not have attained due to censorship -- and with such timeliness; itâ€s quite another to have become a culture that prizes speed over confirmed facts. Have our standards for accountability dissolved? " - David de Beer

From the page: "This is the kind of error that technological utopians make. They assume that their particular scientific revolution will wipe away all traces of its predecessorsâ€"that if you change the fuel you change the whole system" - David de Beer

a fascinating write-up of an as yet unsolved mystery from the life of the queen of mystery books -- agatha christie. - David de Beer

From the page: "Anyone can now create, publish and distribute content across the web. The technologies involved allow you to reach out to audiences far beyond your social network. There is a problem with this scalability. While your content can be distributed endlessly, your ability to interact over that content cannot. In a sense many of the current successful web 2.0 companies try to scale down this endless stream of content and conversations. Our human limitations do not allow us to follow 10.000 people, process millions of pieces of content and interact over all of them." - David de Beer

heh, kind of puts "hotness" in perspective..wish they'd done a bigger post including actresses and singers too. Most of them wouldn't get a 2nd glance on street either. - David de Beer

From the page: "Most writers, published or not, have day jobs, and my admittedly unscientific research suggests that about 35% actively loathe them and another 35% merely tolerate them. (Unfortunately, of the 30% who love their work, 10% are teachers of writing," - David de Beer

amusingly written, but the points are valid -- these are 7 things writers should avoid doing and save all us readers tons of grief. Not to mention themselves. - David de Beer

the story of the world's first true supermodel. - David de Beer

From the page: "Incredibly, the group that did not do any work failed to get any work done, while the group that did do work finished all the work." lol! imagine that:) - David de Beer

From the page: "Judging by what I read, the author is a man. He's a pretty solid speller and has a working knowledge of the bus routes, so that rules out just about all of management." " - David de Beer

From the page: "A machine can break down mechanically, but can it break down emotionally, mentally, and spiritually?" - David de Beer

if you've read The Scarlet Letter, then this is amusing. - David de Beer

From the page: "Just like the marketers of Oreo (now in 19 flavors of cookies) we're dealing with clutter by making more clutter. RSS fatigue is already setting in. While multiple posts get you more traffic, they also make it easy to lose loyal readers." what the man said. every word. absolutely. - David de Beer

From the page: "shooting blistering one-liners at any person he comes in contact with is just one of the ways in which Bower can always be counted on to ruin a good time" - David de Beer

perhaps it is futile but it is nice to see them making the effort. - David de Beer

comprehensive article on wordpress security, with links to more. - David de Beer

From the page: "But the reality is that nowadays, one can choose between a game costing £40 that will last weeks, or a £10 CD with two great tracks and eight dud ones." - David de Beer

how to fix the blank admin screen after a wordpress update. - David de Beer