Rough Drafts

Unfinished or quasi-finished prose that hasn’t been published elsewhere

Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries.

Dylan / 9/4/2006

I love the loud jazzy text-movies of Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, which has been around for a few years and […]

Dylan / 9/1/2006

I’ve been having a hell of a time getting Technorati to recognize the “haiku” tags I add to every original

Dylan / 8/31/2006

Guess again: The #1 video sharing site is Yahoo Video, followed by MySpace Videos, with YouTube in the #3 spot.

Dylan / 8/29/2006

Recording phone interviews is relatively simple: Get an $18 mini recorder control from Radio Shack and plug one end into

Dylan / 8/21/2006

The Haiku Apprentice, by Abigail Friedman (Stone Bridge Press, $15), is both a gentle introduction to the art of haiku

Dylan / 8/4/2006

411 directory assistance calls are one of the biggest ripoffs of the mobile phone world: they cost between $1.20 and

Dylan / 8/3/2006

Just for fun I thought I’d make a list of paired words and phrases that exhibit obvious (and opposing) rhetorical

Dylan / 7/31/2006

The “long tail” is digerati shorthand for the the increasing profitability of companies’ backlists–the formerly neglected niche products that used

Dylan / 7/28/2006

Just for kicks, and because AdBrite has such cute branding, I decided to check out its advertising network. I’ve been

Dylan / 7/25/2006

When I was a kid, the more gears your bike had, the cooler it was. Yet San Francisco is just