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"[A]n aspirate more or less"
Passage from Anne Thackeray Ritchie, 1894
Reliving our learning
Passage from Allen Shaw and a thought on student writing
Whitney Balliett (1926-2007)
The jazz critic Whitney Balliett died yesterday. His style, like any distinctive style, is easily parodied, but there is no better writer to...
How to improve writing (no. 19 in a series)
Pita bread, not pizza bread
Writing, technology, and teenagers
Thoughts on a report from the Pew Internet and American Life Project
How to improve writing (no. 18 in a series)
Avoid hyperbole and redundancy
WriteRoom
[Click to enlarge and read.] Smultron (by Peter Borg) TextWrangler (Bare Bones Software) WriteRoom (Hog Bay Software) Related posts...
How to improve writing (no. 17 in a series)
Anchor? No, encore.
Early writing
From the family archives: [Crayon on paper, undated.] Many of these early works have the date and the name of the maker added in light ...
Utnapishtim's word-processor
The IBM Displaywriter
How to send telegrams
From a 1949 secretarial manual
Digg it
I've been digged.
The SAT is broken
On the SAT essay test
Hello, Lifehack readers
Sentence repair, with real-world examples
Pens, quills, and great big typewriters
In the movie Laura
Blockwriter
simple writing software
Word 2007
Word 2007 vs. my simple Word 2003 layout
Readers and writers
From a supercomputing glossary
E-mail etiquette
How to close an e-mail?
Archimedes Palimpsest
From tomorrow's New York Times : An ambitious international project to decipher 1,000-year-old moldy pages is yielding new clues about ancie...
Jedi Concentrate
Free program to dim all the active window
Words from James Baldwin
"Life is tragic"
Yo, Professor!
On my blog post "How to e-mail a professor"
Dark Room
simple distraction-free text program
Blue crayon
List of supplies for an imaginary camping trip, made with a blue crayon
Florence Wolfson's diary
A 90-year-old woman reunited with the diary she kept as a teenager
DarkRoom
Proust: Places in space and time
Excerpt from Swann's Way
Proust on a rainy day
Excerpt from Swann's Way
Then, now
Excerpt from Swann's Way