I seem to be fixated on New York this month!
There are a lot of geeky landmarks in New York City. From movies like Ghostbusters to comic books like the Fantastic Four to movies about comic books, there are a lot of references made to the Big Apple. If you're a geek and plan on being a tourist in New York, wouldn't you like to hit these hot spots and revisit your favorite geek moments? Or just take a photo of...
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No, not geek professionals, in this case.
Like Wikipedia, but on the micro scale.
It may surprise some readers here that I'm a geek in my professional life. (Okay, so it may not have surprised many readers, but, still...) And, as such, I tend to use computers in a lot of my daily life, including my creative life. One tool that I've been experimenting with a bit is tiny, low-overhead wikis, sort of like a tiny, personal Wikipedia, only it's on my desktop and not publicly available via the internet.
No, this isn't a post about eating disorders!
Rather, it's a post about secret places to eat in New York City!
I have to admit, I've always been fascinated by people lining up to get into places so secret that they have no name or no sign over the door.  Maybe it's having grown up in Chicago with a grandmother who was actually around when speakeasies were up and running that's made this so interesting to me. Maybe it was just being...
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I got my new Canon 5D Mark II the Friday before Halloween.
Well, Halloween is just around the corner, if you aren't celebrating already.
I could go on at length about the historical and cultural phenomena that is Halloween, but, really, if you cared about that, you'd just go to Wikipedia.
So, no, instead, I'll just share a quick fun link to some Halloween LEGO creations over at Blastr.com If you remember playing with LEGOs as a kid, you need to go check that link out, because I can pretty much promise you that...
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Well, this is interesting...
Right, so last week, we had a sci-fi book-picker.
This week, it's a flowchart over at SFSignal designed to help you pick the next science-fiction television series to rent from Netflix. (Or, wherever, if you dropped Netflix due to all their foolish marketing stuff.) And, I have to admit, there are several on the flow chart that I haven't seen yet. Though, again, if you haven't seen Firefly or the newest Battlestar Galactica, I'm always in favor of those.
Okay, a bit more than a word...
"Content is king", they used to say. The idea was if you wrote enough compelling material for your blog or website, then the readers, and search engines, couldn't help but find you and rank you well. Sounds like a great idea, right? Then why do so many people write such bad content?
I don't know either.
What I do know is that everyone and their brother have an idea about how to write good, compelling content...
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