Amazon shorts

No, not safari pants, short fiction. Amazon.com is getting into the publishing business. A story on Information Week reveals that the Seattle-based company will be delivering Amazon Shorts–stories, preview chapters, personal memoirs, etc. between 10,000 and 40,000 words–in a digital format, with no hard copy available. The Shorts will sell for $.49 a shot. “We [...]

“Women’s social rights are not critical”

Via Reclaiming Medusa, found via Feminist Blogs On Meet The Press this morning, David Gregory was interviewing former Middle East specialist for the CIA, Reuel Marc Gerecht. Gerecht had this to say: “MR. GERECHT: Actually, I’m not terribly worried about this. I mean, one hopes that the Iraqis protect women’s social rights as much as [...]

Oh no, anything but that!

While on a sailing adventure in the South Seas, a pair of Americans happened upon an uncharted island. The inhabitants were friendly, inviting the couple to join them for dinner and a party in their honor. The party was accompanied by pounding drum rhythms and dancing. Exhausted from the celebration, the pair retired to a [...]

Net censorship – follow up

FYI – there are other companies besides SonicWall offering filtering capabilities to block websites. We-Blocker offers the ability to see if your site is on their blacklist as well as a mechanism to protest your rating. Beware, however – there is also an option for readers to suggest that you be blocked, offering check-off reasons [...]

Calling all stats nuts

For those who enjoy tracking their presence on the World Wide Web, there are some fun sites to explore. Blogpulse is a site which tracks links back to your site, and generally has a far more extensive list than the bigger Technorati. Feedster allows you to search for the title of your website and links [...]

Dangerous fiction

In the year since it’s release, Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code has launched a spin-off industry of books in which experts spend hundreds of pages disputing the “facts” of this piece of fiction. The History Channel cashed in on the phenomenon with Beyond The Da Vinci Code and the Discovery Channel offered up The [...]

When it rains, it pours

Sorry for the light posting this week; at the risk of this turning into a medi-blog, I’ll explain what’s going on. Wednesday night, I spent 3 hours at the emergency room with my heart skipping beats. Though they didn’t say so, I suspect my high stress level of late had a lot to do with [...]

Memorial Day

The man selling paper poppies outside Woolworths Has a hook for a hand. His friend wears a shiny black eye patch, but neither of them has a parrot. Nana doesn’t have a parrot either, Just a canary named Dickie Bird. The poppy man wraps the wire stem around Nana’s coat button while I put a [...]

Friday dog-blogging

Road tripping – home safely

Yesterday seemed to last a week. We spent the morning shopping for groceries and essentials, including a bike. We had to take the front wheel off to get enough of the bike in the trunk to bungy it closed, but made it back to the apartment without incident. The hard part came when we had [...]

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