The Last Man on Mars
The problem with Mars.
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Funny Story
The title is sarcastic. Or maybe not. I can't figure it out.
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A Representative From the Parks and Wildlife Department Arrives
I am exploring genres.
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Terms of Use
It is what it is.
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Question Answers
I am actually working on a list of questions for real.
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Fortune Favours
I feel like I've written a lot of these sentences before.
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Freedoms
A difficult thing to define.
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Reductive Living
This is how real husbands and wives talk. I know. I've heard them.
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The Gin Cart
Backwards is the new way forwards.
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Rip Van Winkle
The wonders the natural world.
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Nineteen
Freeform. Freely formed.
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Standards
It worries me how little I'm bullshitting here.
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Warranty
I feel okay about repetition. You should too.
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The Weather in April
I am thinking of focusing mainly on the weather from now on.
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Tip
Getting to know the family.
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The Circus
Don't say your mammy never brought you.
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They Saw Us Coming
Another extract from a novel.
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The Logical Choice
There are worse things than computers taking over the world. Sorry this isn't better written.
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Ham Radio
We've all got to make a living.
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Killing Time
Personally I don't trust scientists one bit.
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Scientific Advancement
Progress must continue.
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The Town Scribe
Oh shit this is too long for the Internet! Oh well, try your best.
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Universal Allegory
Apply where needed.
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A Young Atheist Greets Death
This is the excerpt where I'm supposed to write something about the short story.
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Unabridged
Side project announcement.
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Blinding
What do you do with the money, is always the question.
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Memento
An Irish History lesson of sorts.
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Gated Communities
In the future people will be safer and safer.
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The Secret Garden
In defense of the Web.
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Hand Made
Thinking process. Mental crutches.
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Top 5 Albums, 2007
Exactly what it says on the tin.
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Cheetara
Perfectly ordinary winter fantasy.
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Flying
Is it special? Only when you concentrate.
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Fantisight
I still kind of want one of these.
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The Lampposter
It would be nice to have a job in the future.
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Megadik
Did you ever worry you were missing out on something spectacular?
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Apples are the Only Fruit
Do you think I am a little too focused on the future these days?
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FFFFiddlesticks
Whoops I accidentally wrote about the Internet again.
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Watch Out
It is a hard to lose something when the prospect of replacing it is only a depressing one.
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Fashion Victim
I am still scared of the future.
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Michel Houellebecq Visits a Museum
Every day, in every way, I am getting closer to being able to say vagina on this website.
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Cormac McCarthy has Breakfast
This made me hungry.
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George Bush Fanfiction #1
Children need role-models.
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Chance
This is more or less the grasp most people have on chance and statistics.
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Dream #1
It is an artless indulgence to write about one's dreams.
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Electric Picnic 2007
There was some music also.
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25
If you're looking for any more melodrama I'll be in my room.
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Wizard People, Dear Reader
Brad Neely's version of the big HP is worth checking out.
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Madrid
Slightly too warm, maybe?
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Directions
Not the best at returning from the mental plane.
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No Logo
I have never been so sick of the word 'brand.'
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S.A.D.
Rainy summer thus far.
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Submission
Sometimes things are taken out of your hands.
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Wuss
Rewatching films that terrified me in my childhood.
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Punter
Sometimes summer is a bit busy for the Internet.
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Shirtelligentsia
It's like ironic. Except that it's not ironic at all. You know, American ironic.
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The Fan
You just never know what kind of people will be going to these things.
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They Took Your Life Apart and Called Your Failures Art
Releasing material posthumously is an ethical minefield.
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Park
Stray minutes from Sunday afternoon.
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The Tattoo
It's about making a statement about who I am and also who you think I am and also probably who I think you are. And Snow Patrol. Always Snow Patrol.
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Safety Razor
Here is what I shave with when I need to shave which is probably less often than you.
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Avonmore
It just doesn't even look fresh anymore.
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Joanna Newsom: A Critical Review
Unbiased and even-handed account of Joanna Newsom live at the Olympia on the 14th of April 2007.
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Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut.
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McCarthy
This year's Tournament of Books, and me approving.
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A Higher Place
The body is not a vessel.
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Turtle Power
There's a new Turtles film coming out. This should probably have been about that.
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I Mean Business
It's important to really make a connection.
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I'm In Sales
There is no lesson here. Nothing to learn. No information to help you grow. Sorry.
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Unplugged
I fixed my MP3 player.
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Pirates Ahoy
Bla bla bla music bla bla bla downloads bla bla bla piracy bla bla bla ethics.
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Timely
The thing is, I kind of like it like this.
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Sweetness
Sugar journey.
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Dingle Peninsula, Mid-Winter
Pictures, mainly.
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Feedback
You get by with a little help from your friends.
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The Suit
Getting more dressed up than I'm comfortable with.
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Abandoned Factory
Photos of an abandoned IDA factory.
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The Second Wall, Annotated
Pulling back the curtain.... behold! Process!
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The Second Wall
I know what kind of comedian I'm going to be. The tortured kind.
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New Year's Casualties
Also, my dignity.
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Foggy Notions
A decent Irish music magazine.
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Irish Stew
About my favourite winter food.
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The Wind That Shakes the Barley
I ended up watching this film after all.
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Pheasant
About memories and meat and how good naturally raised animals taste.
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Obligatory Mac Post
I suppose everyone who makes the switch has to write about it sometimes.
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Garda Reservations
My concerns about the new Garda Reserve. How did this happen so easily?
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Weight Gain
On the dangers on putting on a few.
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Autumn Stroll
I got lost in the woods. A bit.
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Spooooky
The frightening events of October 31st.
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Pan's Labyrinth
About going to see Pan's Labyrinth. You should too, when it comes out.
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Fogey
Your relationship with popular culture will change as you age. Scary.
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Redundancy
I think it's time designers stopped pretending that they are relevant, don't you?
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A Weighty Issue
I have a question about gravity for the scienticians.
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Dinotherium
An excerpt from A Moral Alphabet by Hilaire Belloc.
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Notice
About me finishing something.
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Artificial Creativity
Ah, sure the computers would do that.
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Distraction
A return to form.
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Penguin Great Ideas
The Penguin Great Ideas collection I somehow missed out on up until now. Gorgeous.
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E-Picnic
My weekend was more busy than usual.
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Interim
This are on hiatus for a week or two.
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Please Tick Applicable
An excerpt from a book. Martin Amis specifically.
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Phúcaí
Are you afraid of the dark?
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Book Smarts
The trials and tribulations at my local second-hand bookshop.
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Work Ethic
How to fall asleep in work.
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Intent
About You Are Beautiful, and distinguishing between real and phoney messages.
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Orange Print
Two great Flickr galleries.
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My Penguin Design
Penguin by Design and the way books have gone now.
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Eight False Starts
Believe it or not, I left some stuff out of this.
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Trek To Isolation
Driving to Kerry.
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Interests
A helpful guide to writing Interests for your CV/Résumé.
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Hangoverover
A definition.
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Paperweight
They don't seem to be making small paperbacks anymore. So much.
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Picture an Endless Closet Space
About what having more room will do to what we've already got.
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Activities That Are Acceptable at a Gig and Nowhere Else
You can do these things only when you're attending live music.
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Pick A Message, Any Message
About stencils and communication.
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Akron/Family Live
I went to Akron/Family and then decided to write about it. My comma use is out of control.
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Affirmitive Action
I'm not sure about some of the sentence constructs in this.
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Have You Heard About This?
Why do men always leave the toilet seat up?
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Political Movement Towards Beer
The usual crap about pop culture's communism fetish.
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Quiz
Just something I wanted to put somewhere.
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Spring Forward
This is not really about the clocks going forward at all.
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Elevate Me Later
The lifts don’t like me.
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Flash Mobbing
Flash mobbing, and whether it would work in Ireland.
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Why Promotional Marketing
Useless ways found of employing people these days, especially the hot ones who could be put to much better use.
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How To Be A Music Snob
About hating when other people like your music.
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Xiangqi
Another crazy caper involving marriage and wontons for our intrepid hero.
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You're Thinking About Rain
About reasoning and rain.
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Colossi
Computer games never grew up. Except this one.
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They're On To Me
Strange things have been happening.
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4 Things
In which I work on the “4 Things” meme thing. Sort of.
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Pong
My conflicted relationship with certain computer games.
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Zadie Smith
About Zadie Smith.
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Thoughts Noted During A Meeting Attended Today
On a paper pad. On the quiet.
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I Love Paris in the Springtime
I spent the weekend in Paris.
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The Winding Stair
Thanks Starbucks. Thanks a bunch.
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Don't You Think This Could Use Another Corkscrew?
When I finished writing this I realised that it is just another “compexity = bad” article, phrased differently.
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10 Songs I Would Love To Find in a Karaoke Machine But Never Will
The title says it all, really.
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Stuff and Us
I’m not sure where I’m going with this one…
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Clap Your Hands Say Who?
In which tickets are purchased and albums are bought. And slight culture shock happens.
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It's Gotten Cold
It’s getting colder, and I’m taking the train.
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I am Flickr
I’m using Flickr. Coming soon: Photos of me in the mirror and also photos of my cat. And me in my underwear on my bed.
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Ban the Media
I’m giving up on news. To an extent.
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America: Uncovered
A treatise on America, in one part.
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'Mericaw
About my holidays, starting tomorrow. Sort of directed towards Americans.
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Skull
Your head is a skull. Think about it.
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Creatures Encountered During the Week
Some things I ran into during my week’s commute.
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Manual
Regarding the dearth of good writing online these days, or is it just me?
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Cat-astrophe
I which I am unjustly branded a criminal.
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Click
I have a camera and was at a gig.
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What Do You Write In?
Is there such a thing as a nice composition application out there?
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Plonk
On Wine and Alcohol. Seperate subjects, as it happens.
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Mint
Shaun Inman has some diabolical plans for us all, and I have proof!
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Do You Hear Music?
Silent music, and whether it might be fun or not.
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Evolve This
If Intelligent Design really happened, then why don’t I have Wolverine claws?
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Now a Major Motion Picture
You know, books are less nice than many other media. Also, movie tie-in books are not a good thing.
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Chalk It Down
About the look of things. And the names of things.
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Why, Paul Auster, Why?
Paul Auster, and what reading his books is like.
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Live Redesigns a Go-Go
Why live redesigns are a Bad Idea. And something about this site’s new design.
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Device for Safe Passage
How to walk around town.
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Book Baton
Something about books and books read recently and stuff that other people make you do.
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AJAX
Using AJAX will make you more attractive to the opposite sex.
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Let's Conserve it!
Gosh darn bad advertising.
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Threadless
About getting T-Shirts online. Kind of.
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Back Up Your Work
In which I retrieved my work only through dint of genius and backbreaking toil.
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Too Little?
In which I talk about this new site design.
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New Shoes
Shoe sizes, and the variable nature of footwear.
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Migraine
What a migraine is like.
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Musical Baton
I which I am peer pressure’s bitch.
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Why, Dan Brown, why?
Some things about books and some other things too.
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Inspiration Management
On the value of letting ideas simmer.
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We Can Rebuild Him, But Why Bother?
In which I become half man, half machine.
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Invisible Cars
Invisible cars aren’t all they’re cracked up to be.
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I Hit the City
I started a new job.
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Saving Money on Smiling
In which I purchase new teethbrush.
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A Horse
About a horse I saw once, or twice.
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The Internet Music Database
Why isn’t there a Internet Music Database that works like IMDb?
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Nicked
In which I have a run in with the law. And it’s all Bloc Party’s fault.
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Gaia
A look at the Gaia hypothesis, and its applications for astrobiologists.
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Stealing Colour Inspiration
Using books for design inspiration. If we are to look to our surroundings for stimulation, should we first check whether that design is copyrighted? What about the elements of that design?
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Burning Bridges
Where can the mind go from here? Upgrading to a better body.
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Startup
In which we power this thing up.
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