Why J.K. Rowling is the first author to make a billion dollars from her writing: Leverage.
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Month: April 2007 (page 1 of 2)
Penelope Trunk explains why you think reporters are always misquoting you: Why journalists misquote everyone — or do they?
… Read the restHeadline of the week: We Are Getting Tired of Prying Your Guns out of Your Cold Dead Hands
… Read the restMOFFETT FIELD, California — Twenty-year Jet Propulsion Laboratory veteran Charles White drove 350 miles from Pasadena to attend what amounted to a rave in Hangar 211 at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View on Friday night.
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In the mountain of commentary that has been published about the Kathy Sierra affair on blogs and in mainstream publications, one fact has so far remained obstinately unconfirmed: Who was it that posted threatening messages and images on Sierra’s website and on two other blogs?… Read the rest
interesting links
- “Backpack,” by Tony Earley | The New Yorker
- Humanity has wiped out 60% of animal populations since 1970, report finds | Environment | The Guardian
- Boy Scouts in a war zone
- Bruno Latour, the Post-Truth Philosopher, Mounts a Defense of Science
- I’ve Got 99 Problems But SPF Ain’t One | Valimail
- Introducing 1Password for Democracy | 1Password
- TS Eliot prize announces 'intensely political' shortlist
- Clown School
- On Subtlety
- What can a technologist do about climate change? A personal view.
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