Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
A friend who dropped a chunk of my writing into IWriteLike tells me that the answer is H.G. Wells (1866-1946). The good news is that I correspond stylistically with an author of the 20th century—I wasn’t sure that I was this far along on the timeline of the English language. ...Thursday, December 31st, 2009
It’s winter in Sault Saint Marie, MI, along the U.S./Canada international border; what else is there to do but shovel snow? Word "czars" at Lake Superior State University (LSSU) "unfriended" 15 words and phrases and declared them "shovel-ready" for inclusion on the university's 35th annual List of Words Banished from the ...Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
Breaking news! NEW YORK—According to a report published this week in American Journalism Review, 93 percent of all newspaper sales can now be attributed to kidnappers seeking to prove the day's date in filmed ransom demands. "Although the vast majority of Americans now get their news from the Internet or television, a ...Thursday, July 16th, 2009
It's almost Friday, so I share with you: Rumor has it that a limited print edition will be available at Print 09.Saturday, December 15th, 2007
There’s a lot of Magazine hype in the blogosphere recently, and I’ve contributed plenty of my own Magazine hype in the past. So I thought it would be a good opportunity to offer some anti-hype, derived from my own experience reading Magazines — an explanation of why I STOPPED reading ...Monday, April 2nd, 2007
Sadly, April 1st fell on a Sunday this time around so we weren't able to get you. It fell on a Saturday last year! Trust me, we enjoy getting you. Since we decided to do an April Fools edition in 2003, our writers have had a ton ...
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