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One of the most beloved books of our time...

I may be more excited for this movie than any other movie this year.  I got a little teary eyed....I'm not gonna lie.

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Start your Windows Phone

I really like Windows Mobile and with the new developments there are going to get more things right than wrong

New Mobile Firefox(fennec) might steal me from Opera Mini

Fennec Beta 1 walkthrough from Madhava Enros on Vimeo

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Ricky Gervais Makes Elmo Stop Being Polite And Start Getting Real

I clicked because it's a new outtake from Ricky Gervais's upcoming (November) appearance on Sesame Street, but I stayed because Elmo drops character but stays in-voice! Ricky: "Do you know what necrophilia is?" Elmo: "Elmo wants this tape!":

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Creative Writing 101 with Kurt Vonnegut

From the preface to his short story collection Bagombo Snuff Box, Kurt Vonnegut shares the basics of what he calls Creative Writing 101. (copied from Writing 101 Wiki)

Kurt Vonnegut created some of the most outrageously memorable novels of our time, such as Cat’s Cradle, Breakfast Of Champions, and Slaughterhouse Five. His work is a mesh of contradictions: both science fiction and literary, dark and funny, classic and counter-culture, warm-blooded and very cool. And it’s all completely unique.

With his customary wisdom and wit, Vonnegut put forth 8 basics of what he calls Creative Writing 101:

1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.

2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.

3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.

4. Every sentence must do one of two things—reveal character or advance the action.

5. Start as close to the end as possible.

6. Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them—in order that the reader may see what they are made of.

7. Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.

8. Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.

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Lipstick Love

Danielle ate the sandwich