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Are News Sites Allergic to External Links?
This happens all the time, and it annoys me all the time: A big news site (in this case, The Christian Science Monitor) has an article about a specific thing (in this case, the guy who has raised $70K in … Continue reading
Peeve Wars: Just Waiting for the Decks
Almost everything is here! The posters, bookmarks, postcards, individual cards, cool tokens, instruction manuals, and shipping materials are all sitting in my living room; I’m just waiting for the decks to arrive to start assembling the packages for shipping. The … Continue reading
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LAST CHANCE: Peeve Wars Ordering Ends Sunday Night
Peeve Wars is now bigger: 72 cards! Peeve Wars is now better: 3 new hero cards and 5 new peeve cards! Thanks to everyone who backed the project, I’ve been able to expand the deck. To get the word out … Continue reading
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Peeve Wars Is Funded! Get Your Deck Today
In case you haven’t heard, I’m crowd funding a card game called Peeve Wars. It’s fully funded, and you have only a few more days left to reserve a deck before we shut down ordering and start printing cards. Get … Continue reading
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Does “Free” Mean “Worthless”?
I just threw away yet another card from Starbucks that offered me something free. This time it was for an app, but often it’s for a song, and sometimes it’s for a book. This time, I didn’t even bother getting the … Continue reading
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Phoenix E-Publishing Workshop Discount
My friend Evo Terra is putting on an e-publishing workshop in Phoenix on September 17, 2011 (next Saturday!) and is offering a $30 discount to the first 12 people to sign up using the code APOSTROPHE (not case sensitive), making … Continue reading
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Smiley Faces and Parentheses
I get questions like this a lot (and they amuse me :-)). I get questions like this a lot (and they amuse me.) 🙂 Mignon Fogarty is the author of six writing books, including the new books 101 Misused Words You’ll … Continue reading
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The Rise of “Schadenfreude”
File this under “random things I do.” I read an offhand comment somewhere that “schadenfreude” (a word from German that means to take joy in other’s misfortune) had seen a jump in use in the late 1990s, and I wanted … Continue reading
On Keeping Your Opinions to Yourself
My brother will be looking for a job soon, and so far he’s ignoring my advice to clean up his Facebook profile. The problem isn’t wild party pictures, he’s quite the diligent student, it’s his wild political views. My philosophy … Continue reading
Can Your Computer Be Too Easy to Use?
A couple of days ago I had to go to a hotel because the water was turned off in my building. I grudgingly left behind my beloved desktop Mac and packed my laptop. I grumbled that I wasn’t going to … Continue reading