Tag: People’s Pilot Contest

This Could be Our Favorite TV Blog

nc-17We’re talking about From the North, an examination of all sorts of fascinating UK TV bits by Keith Telly Topping.

Make that an “eccentric examination.” This blog is so wonderfully personal that it makes our head spin. Take this recent paragraph about DOCTOR WHO, for example:

Yer actual Peter Capaldi his very self surprised attendees of a BBC Worldwide event on Monday, when he turned up on stage in his recently unveiled Doctor Who costume. The actor emerged from the TARDIS (not the real one, obviously, because that would have been against all the laws of God and man) and spoke, briefly, with presenter Graham Norton at the annual showcase taking place in Liverpool. The twelfth-that’s-really-fourteenth incarnation of The Doctor sports a dark blue Crombie coat with red lining, dark blue trousers, a white shirt and black Doctor Martens boots. Of the outfit – created by costume designer Howard Burden – Peter said: ‘He’s woven the future from the cloth of the past. Simple, stark, and back to basics. No frills, no scarf, no messing, just one hundred per cent Rebel Time Lord.’ read article

Need Your Own Free Outside Office to Write In?

If you’re tired of sitting at home at the keyboard in your bathrobe all day, here’s a way to get your own free space so you can get dressed, jump into your car or on your bicycle, and sit in your very own office in lovely Santa Monica, California instead:

p1-2by Amanda

If you’re looking for a writing space outside your apartment, you can now enter to win a FREE 6 month Premium Membership to theOffice (worth $2500+). The fellowship starts April 1st and goes through September 30, 2014.

theOffice is a quiet, communal workspace on 26th Street in Santa Monica (across from the Brentwood Country Mart). There are 26 ergonomic workstations in the room equipped with Aeron chairs, wifi, daily newspapers, a reference library and all the coffee you can handle. read article

Cheating Could Lead to Better Creativity

We knew this:

some-simpson-kidby Whitson Gordon

A recent study found that cheating and creativity have a lot in common: in fact, cheating may actually increase your creativity.P

The study, published in Psychological Science, performed five different experiments in which participants performed various tasks, with an opportunity to over-report their performance. Those who cheated performed more creatively on subsequent tasks, even when accounting for individual differences in creativity.

29 Problems Only Writers Will Understand

These hit way too close to home:

dilbert the writerby Isaac Fitzgerald

1. Checking Your Email Instead of Writing
2. Checking Tumblr Instead of Writing
3. Checking Twitter Instead of Writing
4. Checking Facebook Instead of Writing
5. Checking Your Phone Instead of Writing
6. Watching TV Instead of Writing

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Peer Production: STORMJUMPER

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What’s more like the classic fantasy/s-f comic mag Heavy Metal than Heavy Metal itself? This short video, that’s what. This trip is just plain cool:

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