Lulu.com NaNoWriMo offer
Self-publishing website Lulu.com are offering NaNoWriMo winners one free bound copy of their novel. Unlike last year this applies to international customers too, and includes postage. I appreciate they get free advertising from it, but it strikes me as a kind thing to do and I'll certainly take them up on it. Last year I ordered a couple of copies of my 2005 novel and they came out very well; the binding and paper quality were excellent, and the only (technical) flaws were of my own making since you have to format it yourself.
Tweets
- @scribberlings We should be on our guard. Its first strike was to spoil all my food. Hopefully the Somerfield freezers aren't in on it too. in reply to scribberlings 7 hrs ago
- Something bad has happened to the freezer. 16 hrs ago
- @Andrew_Taylor I'm sure that's coming. I like how (what's basically) paganism is co-opted into a vague 'religion is good' when required. in reply to Andrew_Taylor 19 hrs ago
- R2 Pause for Thought man invoked @profbriancox for 'link between religion and solar system'. People used to look at the moon = religion. 20 hrs ago
- Then at dancing this evening: Paso Doble turns. I might stay in bed for a while. 1 day ago
- I became Uncle Spinny for the afternoon. Uncle Spinny hadn't spun for a while, and made himself ill. Aimee enjoyed it though. 1 day ago
- My niece hugged me for the first time today. 1 day ago
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Shared Niceties
- BBC - BBC Radio 4 Programmes - Living BooksSounds interesting. Via @vaughanbell.
- Please
- Hybrid Bike
- Lizo Mzimba: An ApologyEpic. Via Tom.
- Theodore H. Frank: I am not afraid of my Toyota PriusIs it possible the Toyota acceleration problems don't really exist? Via @Andrew_Taylor, @mjrobbins.
- Flickr’s Season Wheel
- Oh not niceshudder
- Excel Tips: A Formula To Calculate A RatioYou have no idea how useful this will be for me.
- iPhone OS 4.0 may finally bring multitasking nirvanaThis would be great, mainly because I am weirdly obsessed with analysing my GPS mileage, but I'm prepared for it to be 3GS only. My 3G creaks occasionally anyway - multitasking might be asking a bit much.
- feature: Why new hard disks might not be much fun for XP usersGood technical primer on the recent BBC story.
- BBC News - Blue Peter dog Mabel retires from showAwww, I remember that dog's first day.
- Exhausting the entire problem space of animated teddy-bears, cars, people and pigeons
- Daily Mail lies about FacebookThe whole thing had nothing to do with Facebook.
- The Librarian: The Curse of the Judas Chalice TrailerOh my goodness.
- sikhs
- Holy cow this is the tiniest photographer we’ve ever...There is an action movie finale to be had here, where Good Guy presses the shutter and the camera fires an RPG into Bad Guy's smiling face. Suggested one-liner: "say cheese, dickhead."
- The United Steaks of America project is, well, just what it...
- Pharmacist refuses to issue pill because of her religion - TelegraphVery not ok.
- AutoFocus portfolio themeOne of very few portfolio-site designs I actually like. Dates keeps you honest and fresh; info is clean and tidy; layout is nice. Might actually start building myself a site. Via @photojojo, who are on fire at the moment.
- Violent video games: small causal link with aggressionActual data! Not just made up stuff in newspapers! Overall picture is muddy, though.
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