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Writing Rules
Rules for writers, from writers. One of the first blog posts I wrote on secretGeek was "How to write a novel". This was an entirely tongue in cheek article with advice on what *not* to do. A lot of people read it, and it was linked from Wikipedia for a while. But eventually thei…
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Joke Genious
The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. —Famous Smart Alec, Samuel Clemens Analyzing a joke is like dissecting a frog, in the end they both die. —Woody Allen I used to believe that jokes stopped being funny when they were analyzed. But since becoming a father I…
Timeless Pieces of Culture
There are timeless pieces of culture - even though most timeless pieces are in themselves *of* a particular time. Stewart Lee - Content Provider. (Few things are as tragic as the youtube ads for Michael Mcintyre shown over this video. It's like you're driving a Bugatti Veyron, …
Writing a Mystery Novel
It is hard to find practical guides to doing anything magical. Magicians don't like to reveal where to place the hinges or what to feed your pet dove. So I like it when an article gives away the secrets, like this one: Charles Finch: "Writing Great Mystery Plots" Here's the kern…
Revolution Rock Oral History of Brisbane Music 1942-present
Rescued from Archive.org at the request of the author, Bruce Anthon. Original website, Revolution Rock, © Kelvin Johnston. Bands Bands Bands....no denying that along with "the punters", the conglomerations of "hungry-wanna-bes" formed the core of this particular avenue of Brisba…
Oscillators
Oscillators are patterns in Game of Life that cycle through a repeating set of states. The number of states in the cycle is called the "periodicity", e.g. "Period 2" means two states that alternate. Period 2 Blinker (period 2) 00000 00000 01110 00000 00000 Toad (Period 2) 00…
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