“The September Issue”
By admin | July 10, 2009
“The September Issue” is the anticipated documentary that follows Anna Wintour and her staff at Vogue through the process of creating the magazine’s September issue, AKA the world’s thickest magazine issue.
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Tennis ace Sharapova unveils blinking phone dress
By admin | June 18, 2009
So far the marriage between fashion and technology has brought clothes barely worthy of a headline in the goofball section of the news. Say, like this:
Former Wimbledon champion Maria Sharapova presented a prototype dress to reporters that is designed to light up when the wearer’s mobile telephone rings.
What?
I’ve seen other odd offspring like this and it’s discouraging. Is there some designer whose actually doing something useful and interesting. Something some might actually want to use and wear. Will it have to be Apple that leapfrogs over everyone else with the iRGB shirt?
For an uninformative image of the dress see: www.ubergizmo.com/
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Golf Swing of the Future
By admin | May 31, 2009
The next year we moved and my golfing ended, but I never forgot that one wonderful shot.
Many years later, my fiance bought me a set of clubs, and I’ve taken up golf and Mindy’s swing again. After finding this forum, I purchased GTTB, and while I rarely play and barely get to the range, I have enjoyed a little more consistency and distance.
A week ago my dad recorded me at a range, and I’ve posted a few videos on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/user/JonArmstrongAuthor
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I’d like to co-opt this for my upcoming novel, Yarn
By admin | May 5, 2009
A ball of yarn takes over San Francisco.
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“50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice – ChronicleReview.com”
By admin | April 13, 2009
I’ve never been a huge fan of “The Elements of Style,” which turned 50. If you’re like me and had told to read and study the thing to learn how to write well, only to flip through its narrow pages and wonder what people were raving about.
Geoffery K. Pullum has this to say:
“April 16 is the 50th anniversary of the publication of a little book that is loved and admired throughout American academe. Celebrations, readings, and toasts are being held, and a commemorative edition has been released.
I won’t be celebrating.
“The Elements of Style” does not deserve the enormous esteem in which it is held by American college graduates. Its advice ranges from limp platitudes to inconsistent nonsense. Its enormous influence has not improved American students’ grasp of English grammar; it has significantly degraded it.
Read the rest at The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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A Cool-looking SteamPunk iPhone Game
By admin | April 7, 2009
I was thinking about a steam-punk sort of look for a game recently. Not a puzzler, though.
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The Flying Suit
By admin | April 2, 2009
wingsuit base jumping from Ali on Vimeo.
In my upcoming novel, Yarn, which tells the story of the tailor from Grey, I have a short scene with a flying suit. The one I imagined was more fashionable … a high-twist charcoal twill … however, these are pretty damn exciting.
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Tonight I’m off to an iPhone/i…
By admin | April 1, 2009
Tonight I’m off to an iPhone/iPod Touch developers meeting. All I can say is: Developers! Developers! Developers!
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Laughing out loud at jokes I w…
By admin | April 1, 2009
Laughing out loud at jokes I wrote. Good sign? Bad sign?
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Laughing out loud to jokes I w…
By admin | April 1, 2009
Laughing out loud to jokes I wrote a while back. Good sign? Bad sign?
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I’m enjoying some wasabi mayon…
By admin | March 31, 2009
I’m enjoying some wasabi mayonnaise.
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Let’s try that again: The inte…
By admin | March 30, 2009
Let’s try that again: The international, illegal, and lucrative (for some) world of video game cheating. http://tinyurl.com/cr6srq
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If You’re Just Joining Us is a…
By admin | March 29, 2009
If You’re Just Joining Us is about illegal video game cheating “gold farms” in China wit journalist Rowenna Davis. http://tinyurl.com/cr6srq
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Thought I saw Ira Glass in the…
By admin | March 28, 2009
Thought I saw Ira Glass in the city.
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Ate a fantastic five-course me…
By admin | March 28, 2009
Ate a fantastic five-course meal at Gordon Ramsey’s Maze.
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@MaryRobinette Say hello to Ji…
By admin | March 27, 2009
@MaryRobinette Say hello to Jim.
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I just interviewed journalist …
By admin | March 27, 2009
I just interviewed journalist Rowenna Davis about “gold farms” in China, where they play video games all day for about 35 cents an hour.
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Too many things happening at o…
By admin | March 26, 2009
Too many things happening at once.
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2009: International Year of Na…
By admin | March 25, 2009
2009: International Year of Natural Fibres! You’ve been celebrating right?
Go cotton! Woo Alpaca! Yea Hemp! http://tinyurl.com/cgma86
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Headline: Japanese catwalk rob…
By admin | March 25, 2009
Headline: Japanese catwalk robot unveiled: http://tinyurl.com/cpb5h4 Note to supermodels: your job is secure. For now.
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@charlesatan for me: two count…
By admin | March 24, 2009
@charlesatan for me: two counts of guilty.
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Headline: Men less likely than…
By admin | March 24, 2009
Headline: Men less likely than women to finish books, more likely to own books they’ve never read. Guilty.
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The smoke has cleared from my …
By admin | March 24, 2009
The smoke has cleared from my rewriting. I cut somewhere around 40 thousand words but added 20 thousand more. Cutting is good, but painful.
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@Thromgar thank you!
By admin | March 23, 2009
@Thromgar thank you!
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@charlesatan @wizardhq Glad y…
By admin | March 23, 2009
@charlesatan @wizardhq
Glad you enjoyed it! Lou is great!
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Who’s going to shoot art and p…
By admin | March 23, 2009
Who’s going to shoot art and put it out of its misery?
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@TruckerRich Glad you enjoyed …
By admin | March 22, 2009
@TruckerRich Glad you enjoyed the podcast novel! Check out my interview podcast: http://www.ifyourejustjoiningus.com
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Lou Anders, Editor of Pyr talk…
By admin | March 22, 2009
Lou Anders, Editor of Pyr talks about the iPhone, tricorders, earrings, his wife’s Asian Fusion food and more! http://tinyurl.com/c93j5m
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@mkcurry thanks for the grumbl…
By admin | March 21, 2009
@mkcurry thanks for the grumble.
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Painting some walls.
By admin | March 21, 2009
Painting some walls.
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Working on the Lou Anders podc…
By admin | March 20, 2009
Working on the Lou Anders podcast for If You’re Just Joining Us. It will go on-line in a couple of days.
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Back to the fashion wars of Ya…
By admin | March 20, 2009
Back to the fashion wars of Yarn!
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Rats.
By admin | March 19, 2009
Rats.
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I’m in a meeting with cool new…
By admin | March 18, 2009
I’m in a meeting with cool new clients.
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Back from the hardware store w…
By admin | March 17, 2009
Back from the hardware store with propane, a bathroom scale, and a toilet seat. Ahh, fine living!
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Waiting for details of the iPh…
By admin | March 17, 2009
Waiting for details of the iPhone 3.0 thingy today.
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Just emailed the president abo…
By admin | March 16, 2009
Just emailed the president about those damn AIG bonuses.
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Rewriting for most of the day….
By admin | March 16, 2009
Rewriting for most of the day. So many little details to futz with. I’ve renamed this one little thing more than dozen times. Just for fun.
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@Thromgar I’ll get back to it,…
By admin | March 16, 2009
@Thromgar I’ll get back to it, but the last Henry Thompson book was just too dark for me. I must be in a wuss mood.
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We couldn’t make it thru Slumd…
By admin | March 15, 2009
We couldn’t make it thru Slumdog.
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