For awhile there it looked like independent publishing was going to be feasible. Between print-on-demand services like Lulu and Amazon’s willingness to integrate their catalogs in with the other print houses, someone like me,
Scott and Sheri or
Glen could write a book, list a book, and send people to a store they recognized [...]

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I’ve been reading Michael Shaw’s
BAGNewsNotes, who’s focus is on the editorial content of news photographs. For example, you can see
McCain photos that bring their own captions.
Along the same lines as that I noticed these two photographs side-by-side on the Washington Post site Wednesday morning:

The Associated Press Obama image on the left is a [...]

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I have been trying to read Heinlein’s Time Enough for Love for the past several weeks. It is like Atlas Shrugged without the subtle characterization and gripping plot.

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We’re coming up on six years of Thudfactor (official birthday:
February 6, 2002), a project I started with the intention of getting in the habit of writing frequently. I’ve achieved that goal and then some, but here’s the thing: I wanted to write fiction. Despite occasionally toying with graduate degrees in political science and history, [...]

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Cory’s finally old enough now that I can return to some movie watching. I just put a review for
Cinematic Titanic’s first movie on the Anvil and Sprocket website. Nice to see that crew back in action, but I think the first outing is a little disappointing.

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