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books booked

on a related note, i think that this year i'm going to be using zotero to keep track of all the books I read. For the last three years, I've nerdishly noted when I started and finished each book I read and how long they were.

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metal fatigue

Call me stupid but I've only just discovered that  when it comes to naming heavy metal bands, people lack a little imagination. Not least me. In my first nanowrimo in nov 2004, there was a small event at Earl's Court. The main character was getting shot

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Woman on the Edge of Time

And staying with books. Our first bookgroup choice this year is Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy. Just got the book and read the back cover.. any book with a highly approving nod from Pynchon is sure to be good (previously that's how i discovered

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Zotero

http://www.zotero.org/ Bibliographies just got (even) easier. I have been experimenting with a new citation management tool for Firefox. Zotero It allows you to gather bibliographic information directly from library webpages. And stores them in a handy pop-up database to which you can add your own annotations, links

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Democracy (n.), when a whole nation suffers from the same delusion

The Washington Post has published the winning submissions to its yearly neologism contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words. The winners are: 1. Coffee (n.), the person upon whom one coughs. 2. Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have gained. 3 . Abdicate

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Nano06 - counting words

Here's the (lack of) progress I made last month.

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nanowri not this time

Come midnight on the 30th November I was sitting here with 31,301 words on the page.. so my second glorious failure.. that's three unfinished novels under my belt now: 2004 - 52,300 words which is about 85% of what i expect that novel to be (currently

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Awake!

Awake! A novel about self-awareness PrologueOnezero: Who are you? Onezero: I think I am Onezero. Chapter 1 A wake for the undead Omar awoke. Instantly alert, he lifted his head out of the oh so soft pillow, just far enough to register that the room was dark. He went effortlessly

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10/500 = 50,000 ???

I climbed into bed last night without the slightest clue what this year's Nano would be about. But thanks to some sleeping tablets that has all changed. Previous years inspiration has come from a combination of a germ of an idea with a little chemical assistance. In 2004

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nanowrimo 2006

For the uninitiated, it is a internet thing where one aims to write a 50,000 word novel from beginning to end all in a month. The aim is not craft a masterpiece but on the contrary to trade in all your pretensions and self-censorship in exchange for a fast

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Fear and Loathing in the Royal Festival Hall

rarely has the bookclub agreed so unanimously about a book and still found things to say about it. whenever we liked something in the past we've done the round of - i liked it - me too - good story - i liked the bit where they drink

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The Vagueries of categories

http://www.cyberchimp.co.uk/papers/fourhands.htm In its distant pages it is written that animals are divided into (a) those that belong to the emperor; (b) embalmed ones; (c) those that are trained; (d) suckling pigs; (e) mermaids; (f) fabulous ones; (g) stray dogs; (h) those that are

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book - science and fiction

just read the essential difference by simon baron cohen -- going on about the testosterone fuelled differences in male and female cognitive dispositions.. men on average are more systematic, women are more empathic.. (and how autism is instance of an 'extreme male brain' high syst + low emp) not

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Cas on a hot town roof

Earlier today I was sitting on the roof of my flat in my pants reading the latest Haruki Murakami. Kafka on the Shore is a typically strange tale superficially about a dull child who runs away to from home to join a library. I could not get very far into

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Theatrical Science

Have just uploaded the two little pieces that wrote for the Experiment in TheatreWhat is a metaphor?Staging Schrˆdinger's Experiment

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Schoedinger's Cast

Just one possible experiment in a theatre among many Performed by Alan Cox at the Soho Theatre, 17th May 2006 Written by Caspar Addyman 2006 We are all familiar with Schroedinger's cat. A simple little thought experiment that illustrates the bizarre nature of quantum mechanics. But very briefly,

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Experimental process

http://sohoexperiment.blo...nt_archive.html An example of one moment in that experimental process that recently surprised me comes from an experiment we are running to see how sensitive babies are to patterns in their environments. We show them two different sequences of coloured shapes that appear one at

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Experiments.. in theatre

I know many of you like experiments and that most of you are keen on the theatre. You are all in luck because on the evening of Monday 15th May in the Soho Theatre, London you can enjoy both! Tassos Stevens has a PhD in developmental psychology but for the

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The Selfish Gene - 30 years on

http://www.timesonline.co...2075334,00.html Coming up to the 30th anniversary of the publication of Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene. An edited version of his foreword to an anniversary reissue appears in the Sunday Times online: Perhaps the most telling quote.. Many critics, especially vociferous ones learned

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Not written for Charlie White

I will not waste my short life pleading that you agree with me. I am obviously right and if you cannot see it then I wonder how deep your ignorance goes. I wonder by how far you are misguided. But I do not ponder this extensively because where would i

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Heimatssicherheitabteilung

http://evolvethought.blog...ief-can-we.html A light-hearted if profoundly disturbing piece at Evolving Thoughtson the Department of Homeland Security (aka der Heimatssicherheitabteilung) taught me two new things. The Heimatssicherheitabteilung meme and that Mel Brooks was responsible for the 70's TV comedy Get Smart.

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Moore, Moorcock and more!

Thanks to a tip on Neil Gaiman's blog, I am going to an evening with Alan Moore in conversation with Michael Moorcock at Blackwells, Charing Cross on 18th Jan. Of MM's massive output* I've only read the wonderful Mother London, but I the sequel

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libraries

I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library -Jorge Luis Borges I was a dull child. I wanted to run away and join the library. -Me I have the first on a t-shirt from vancouver public library. it attracts much admiration and for xmas my sister

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NaNoWriMo Loser

i managed 12,570 words this month, 1/4 of the required amount... rather ridiculous considering that technically i have had more free time this year than last year when i did the full thing.. i think the problem was being slow out of the starting blocks.. i had a

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words and worlds

before the first of november this story did not exist.. and even now i have yet to write very much of it.. but  in the short time i have been plotting it  and in the few parts i have sketched out i have experienced something essential about it.. i have