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BooksFirst - July 2008

Books Bought See the Special Vacation Edition post Books Read Armageddon In Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut, introduction by Mark Vonnegut The Quick Red Fox by John D. MacDonald Comments For rock stars, death has always been a good career move. For writers, not so much. Often before the corpse is cold, the vultures are rifling through the file cabinet and the trash can for anything that can be sold as...

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Investment Discipline in the Year of Capitulation

Libby Mihalka submits: “History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.” - Kurt Vonnegut Having experienced a multitude of market crises, I realize that history never repeats itself exactly, so I’d be arrogant not to admit that almost anything can happen from here. It is a distinct possibility that things will get worse before they get better in the stock market....

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Kobe scores 19 as the US beats Russia, hears MVP chants

Just wanted to share a link from the Kurt Vonnegut of NBA writers, Mark Heisler at the Times, who has been following the US basketball team through Asia this month. As fans had done when Bryant went to the free-throw...

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Ad-cluttered Wowio e-book site: The uglier side of globalization—minus those classy free PDF downloads

Wowio, the ad-supported book site, once worried me. I didn’t see enough ads in the free PDF files. Someone had to pay for this feast. Kurt Vonnegut, William Styron, Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn—those were among the distinguished writers whose works you could download for free. Wowio catered to comic fans, but it offered plenty else, in [...]

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How to: Write with style, by Kurt Vonnegut

vonnegutSTYLE 1. Find a subject you care about Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, and not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style. I am not urging you to write a novel, by the way --- although I would not be sorry if you wrote one, provided you genuinely cared about...

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'A Snake for a new era,' Kojima teases

Filed under: Culture A brief interview with Hideo Kojima at Variety isn't so much full of megatons - he hasn't read much Haruki Murakami but he does enjoy Phillip Dick and Kurt Vonnegut - as it is with some insights into the supposed "end" of his Metal Gear Solid series. Kojima shares some of his thought process on the creation of "Old Snake" - "I made him this way because of the unique characteristics...

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How do we know if a new search engine is any good?

In a 1966 review of the new Random House Dictionary, Kurt Vonnegut wrote that the key to understanding a new dictionary was to “look up ain’t and like.” These two definitions are the quickest way, Vonnegut promises us, to determine whether a dictionary is “descriptive” or “prescriptive”—if it explains how language is used or if [...]

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How do we know if a new search engine is any good?

In a 1966 review of the new Random House Dictionary, Kurt Vonnegut wrote that the key to understanding a new dictionary was to "look up ain't and like." These two definitions are the quickest way, Vonnegut promises us, to determine whether a dictionary is "descriptive" or "prescriptive"—if it explains how language is used or if it decrees how it ought to be. [ more ... ]

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We Need Futurism Scorecards

“There should have been a Secretary of the Future.” - Kurt Vonnegut Wired has a great article online covering their failed predictions from the past, which includes the death of brands and online song-sharing. One of their more ridiculous claims was that “futurism is dead.” Far from dead, Futurism has merely become a more esoteric interest, but [...]

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My Daily Domestic Diigolet 07/25/2008

Kurt Vonnegut: 8 Basics of Creative Writing Writing advice from Kurt Vonnegut tags: writing , homeschool StumbleVideo This is adorable! tags: fun , babies The McCall Pattern Company Butterick Patterns, McCall's Patterns, Vogue Patterns, Wallies tags: sewing How To Get a Flat Stomach | eHow.com tags: fitness Dewey Decimal Classification System Now you can look up the Dewey Decimal System from your own...

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The Futures of 1952: More Book Reviews

Player Piano, by Kurt Vonnegut The Space Merchants, by Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth This month’s selection is a pair of books that plot out future American dystopias as envisioned in 1952. I think it’s an interesting time, in that even in heyday of the American capitalist mythology, a few authors were still frustrated enough [...]

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It Feels Grand to Be Posting to Nick's Bytes Again

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. ~ Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007) H aving three years of blogging and over one thousand posts disappear in an instant was a real downer! It was so much of a downer that, as downers have a way of doing, I benefited from the experience. Yeah, I meant to say that...

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Kurt Vonnegut Jr. "So it Goes"- a blind contour portrait.

I did this blind contour drawing of Kurt Vonnegut Jr. a little while back, and decided to add some color and sell prints of it. It turned out really nice. The prints are really big, so if anyone is interested...

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Kurt Vonnegut on books

From his book Timequake, Kurt Vonnegut on books: At the time of their invention, books were devices as crassly practical for storing or transmitting language, albeit fabricated from scarcely modified substances found in forest and field and animals, as the latest Silicon Valley miracles. But by accident, not by cunning calculation, books, because of their weight [...]

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Write with Style

Kurt Vonnegut offers tips to write with style. Luckily for us Indians, point#5 is in our favor but again that’s no excuse to insert Hinglish phrases in every sentence. Understand, no?