Still Boldly Going
Star Trek, as an overall phenomenon, won a special Emmy a couple weeks ago and they had both a great gathering of cast and crew — as well as a pretty nice montage. Enjoy!
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The Judicious Use of the Word that Rhymes with ‘Duck’
Many a creative doesn’t want to wear the business hat. I know, that’s me too a lot of days. But it helps to be confident in wearing the hat when it’s needed and when to bring in the hired gun (e.g., a lawyer) for the right situations. A legal eagle I use, Seth Polansky, posted this in a thread related to a particularly ridiculous film festival. I’ve seen it before, but in a sense, this about-40-minute…
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And for something completely different: NASA’s Moon Base plans
I was going to do a longer post about fandom gatekeeping and tie it into Banned Book Week, but I don’t have time, so here’s an article from TechRadar about NASA’s current plans for how we humans may use the moon to aid further exploration of the solar system.
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But People Don’t Still Ban Books, Do They?
Continuing Banned Book Week, Ron Charles and his editor conspired to give Ron’s essay the incendiary title “Do we really still need Banned Books Week?” In fact, he even starts giving you umbrage fuel in the first paragraph, but then he talks to the people who and whaddya know? Yup. People will be people and some people will always think that your dainty mind needs protection (see also, Monday’s post).
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So Many Banned Books, So Little Time…
As friends know on social media, I’m a big fan of Banned Book Week that occurs every Fall. Given that people continue to challenge books and, really, are only looking out for you, whomever you might be, I find it a good tradition to continue. Several members of my family are or were librarians — and I well remember challenges to books growing up from parents who were worried our dainty minds would be perverted…
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The Pumpkin Spice Must Flow
Unlike Starbucks, I’ve held off until this, the first official day of Fall, but now that’s it’s here: Resistance is futile. Search your taste buds, you know it to be true! But why is that anyway? And why do people hate it so much? Rebecca Jennings is glad you asked.
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Write the Dang Thing
Look, writers are gonna write… except when they come up with voluminous excuses not to. So, periodic posts like this one to help motivate people are always handy. In other words, enjoy this piece about how Laura Vanderkam gets her writing done while having 4 children, blogging, speaking, and presumably breathing and eating.
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Pushing Your Buttons… or Just Taking Them Away
Okay, so I implied on Wednesday that I try and help people work smarter, not harder… because working on projects that go nowhere doesn’t help anyone. So imagine my umbrage when I read an article by Jacopo Prisco about all the “placebo buttons” that are out there designed to give people the illusion of control. Do you people not know conspiracy theorists will run with this?!? Of course, I have to wonder which is worse: being…
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You Can’t Do it All – Enterprise Edition
We haven’t had a wonky Wednesday in a while, have we? All right, so let’s tackle something that affects businesses big and small. In fact, it affects families, too. How many times have there been “too many things” to do or deal with in a week? As it happens, I deal with project selection at work — and it makes me long for the family-based stuff. Why? The number of players involved in “what to…
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A Century of History… in Cookies
However your week has gone, you deserve to learn about the important history of cookies from the Neil Degrasse Tyson of cookie knowledge: Happy Friday!