Notes

How to get better at doing most things: Practice. Actually, “deliberate practice,” which means “setting specific goals, obtaining immediate feedback and concentrating as much on technique as on outcome.”

Clive Thompson: “… interactive narrative is an oxymoron. It’s like talking about “dry water”. The audience’s lack of control over a story is the crucial part of what makes narrative narrative.” Why interactive poetry beats interactive fiction.

Top-secret, 400-page report by the UK Ministry of Defense confirms: UFOs are not really alien visitors

Congratulations to my friends at RLG. (For you non-library folks: This news is a bit like Yahoo merging with Google, except for libraries). RLG to combine with OCLC

Holy cow, I have an entry in the Internet Movie Database: IMDB: Dylan Tweney

DailyCandy‘s 1.2 million subscribers: Worth $100 million? DailyCandy Goes Shopping for a Sugar Daddy

“T-Mobile USA is expected to roll out UMA [wi-fi phone] services within the next six months.” Light Reading – UMA Services Near Reality

Way more significant than the Google subpoena. Think $27.5 billion significant (that’s how much goes through Paypal annually). IRS seeks PayPal’s aid finding hidden cash

Forget wi-fi hackers–the really scary coffee-shop criminals stab you in the chest and then take your computer. Laptop thieves descend upon wireless cafes / Grab-and-run robbers find pricey computers easy to resell

Damned if you do, damned if you don’t: Cleaner air may actually be accelerating global warming. BBC NEWS | Air trends ‘amplifying’ warming

Wm. S. Burroughs: “We intend to destroy all dogmatic verbal systems.” My Mother and I Would Like to Know

Hilariously bad PR: Undertaking a Difficult Sales Job