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The Robot Uprising Will Not Be Televised
If you’re a nerd (and if you’re reading a blog post about robots, you most likely are), you know that one day technology will turn against us. Someday, someone (most likely the Japanese) will build a robot or computer that is so smart that it will wonder why the hell it is doing the bidding […]
Stop Trying to Be Clever and Say Something Meaningful for Once
As someone who reads and edits copy for a living and does a lot of reading and writing in her spare time, I think I have every right in the world to say that sometimes I really hate writers. I hate it when writers try to be clever at the expense of being honest — […]
How to Write a Novel in Three Days
Maybe you’ve heard of NaNoWriMo, the annual creative-writing challenge in which participants attempt to churn out a 50,000-word novel in the month of November. Maybe you’ve participated before. Or maybe you’d rather stab your eyes out with an ice pick than attempt to write 1,667 words a day for 30 days. I’ve participated in NaNoWriMo […]
No One Wants to Be a Salieri
I first saw the movie Amadeus in high school. We watched it in band class (that’s how schools roll in rural Texas). I came away from the movie thinking (a) brief, fast-forwarded-through nudity — awesome and (b) it sucks to be Salieri.
Save the Unicorn: A Guide to Carnage-free Button Design
Being the proud owner of multiple button machines, I’ve fabricated more than my fair share of round promotional items. In my eight years of button-making, I’ve seen a lot of great designs and a metric ton of absolutely terrible ones. When used as a promotional tool, your button is basically like your business card — […]
Slim Goodbody Is Still Bringing It — Why Aren’t You?
