failblog.org - 3/20/2009
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Why Ebooks Must Fail
blackplasticglasses.com 4/1/2009 — This piece is about consumer or “trade” publishing as we call it in the industry. To begin, let's review how a book becomes a book. A writer gets an agent who peddles a manuscript to an editor who buys the book. The Publisher then pays an advance ...
History Fail
rimworlds.com 8/25/2009 — According to IO9 , SF didn’t really penetrate our cultural awareness until it hit television.
They mention television of the past in passing in this introductory piece to a week’s worth of SF (and other genres) on the babble box. As usual, however, the focus is on current day ...
OF Blog of the Fallen: The "Fail" beat still continues
ofblog.blogspot.com 8/6/2009 — I'm feeling a bit ill tonight, so if my thoughts are a bit too brief and/or disjointed, I'll blame it on the stomach bug I have. Anyways, on with the topic du jour, that of another all-male SF Anthology being released and the shitstorm that Paul di ...
Doomed: why Wikipedia will fail
arstechnica.com 2/13/2009 —
Law professor Eric Goldman loves Wikipedia, but he's also convinced that the site contains the "seeds of its own destruction." In other words, not to put too fine a point upon it, Wikipedia will fail.
Goldman made his provocative point ...
‘Mission Fail’ by Michael Meyerhofer
planetmagazine.wordpress.com 5/30/2009 — “So, Doc, how many do you think died today?” Fram asked. “A million? Ten million?”
We were sitting in the mess mall of the Scaled Angel, the only two in a room built for ten astronauts of various shapes and sizes. Fram was picking his ...
Russell T Davies On Why Doctor Who Couldn't Fail [Doctor Who]
io9.com 5/24/2009 — Filming on the final episode of the Russell T Davies / David Tennant Doctor Who era finished yesterday and, to mark the occasion, the BBC talked to Davies about his time in charge of the Time Lord. Charlie already covered the spoiler-friendly ...
Amazon Fail: The Online Giant Censors Content?
conversationalreading.com 4/13/2009 — Apropos of my interview with Ted Striphas , I want to discuss the weekend's news that Amazon is/was censoring books with "questionable" content--"questionable" in this case being defined as homosexual behavior. It's not completely clear what was ...
safety precautions FAIL
dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com 9/10/2009 — gumdrop gargantua leave pinnacles of chocolate in the Wonka mine in case of mine collapse be prepared to breathe under syrup
Mad Libs
difrancis.livejournal.com 9/12/2008 — Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Fail again. Fail better. ~Samuel Beckett Probably, indeed, the larger part of the labor of an author composing his work is critical labor; the labor of sifting, combining, constructing, expunging, correcting, ...
Qui-Gon Jinn, Master of FAIL
fialleril.livejournal.com 1/15/2009 — So, y'all remember that part in TPM when Qui-Gon walks into Watto's junk shop, and finds out that Watto doesn't take Republic credits, and then completely fails to ask where the local money-changer can be found, despite the fact that he's in a large ...
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