Archive for August, 2010

Links for the week of August 23, 2010

If you plan on graduating from Wabash College, in Indiana, you’ll need to have played the game “Portal”. Ommwriter – Plaintext editing, zen style. How to read without distraction. Dieter Rams, a major inspiration for design at Apple. Safari Reader Mod, makes things a bit nicer. Miniature Pencil Art, carved in the lead/graphite of pencils. [...]

7 Recommended Podcasts

In the summer of 2005, I watched Steve Jobs demo the new version of iTunes on stage at Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference, and was quickly interested in the world of “Podcasts” that he introduced to me. Podcasts are audio or video shows that you can download on the internet, automatically, by subscribing to them [...]

My Fanfiction.net Reading System

Introduction I first started reading fanfiction around 1999, and ever since, I’ve kept coming back to it – some might even say that I’m addicted to it. What are fanfiction stories? Fanfiction stories are stories about the characters or world of some pre-existing fiction (be it a movie, book, game, TV show, etc.), by unofficial [...]