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Entries from December 2008

some winter poems

December 29th, 2008 · No Comments

The Academy of American Poets (Poets.org) has posted some winter poems, among them this poem: Toward the Winter Solstice by Timothy Steele. Highly recommended. Also, you can’t beat William Shakespeare; Sonnet 97 (“How like a winter hath my absence been”) has a seasonal flair as well.

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Tags: reading

juice plug-in for Firefox (a momentary geek-out)

December 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Please allow me to wax geeky for just a moment about a tool I think writers may find extremely useful.
Juice, a new plug-in for Firefox from Linkool Labs, puts a sidebar on your browser. Highlight any bit of text, drag-and-drop it on the sidebar, and a tabbed Google search (for web, images, news, videos, and [...]

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Tags: research

dresden: sexier on tv

December 11th, 2008 · No Comments

On TV, everything has to be sexier, including Harry Dresden.

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Tags: book review · general