Living the Liminal

So, my story “Death Comes with Jeff” won the Write Fight.
Yay me . . . well, yeah, but that “yay” is tempered by the fact that there were only 3 entries and only 2 votes. Some of the feedback was spot-on, the ending does feel a bit like a cheat, so I’ve got a proposition [...]

Several weeks ago, J & I went on a day trip to Cold Spring, NY to get away from the city and enjoy some of the sights along the Hudson. While there, we stopped in a couple of antique stores (a habit I developed while dating LJ) and I came across this book:

This from the [...]

Do you like writing?
Do you like challenges?
Check out The Dueling Quill for a fun writing challenge/contest. It’s a project I’ve been helping out with and the more the merrier.

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Not convinced about the glossy screen being the only option, but still, like I said . . . pretty.

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This story was printed about 12 years ago, but it’s the first I’d heard of it and is fascinating (definitely a play or a film script in the making):“The Great Ivy League Nude Posture Photo Scandal”
(via Boing Boing)
As Tom Merrit from CNET points out, when the scientists say “don’t worry,” it’s usually time to head [...]

Because I don’t like to send political emails, I figured I’d post this here:

Subject: Don’t let Congress off the hook for letting Bush wiretap our phone calls
Hi,
The Democratic-controlled Congress did the unthinkable on Saturday
night: They gave President Bush and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales
more unchecked power to wiretap Americans without a warrant. Yes,
that’s the same Attorney [...]

Your very own, humble yet pretty-damn-talented, LtL will be designing sound for a show called Purple Hearts which is being directed by David Epstein and produced by the Invisible City Theater Company. It’s a pretty intense play about the few men who survived for weeks in the USS West Virginia after it had sunk in [...]

For anyone interested in meaningful writing for the web, check out this great article “Reviving Anorexic Web Writing” by Amber Simmons.
As she puts it:
Content is the heart of a brilliant user experience. From the body content to the alt
text to the footer, the words that shape the page lie at the very
center of an engaging [...]

Very cool new tech/power possibilities:
A Crowd Farm in Boston’s South
Station railway terminal would work like this: A responsive
sub-flooring system made up of blocks that depress slightly under the
force of human steps would be installed beneath the station’s main
lobby. The slippage of the blocks against one another as people walked
would generate power through the principle [...]