From the page:
Wait! Before the religious jelots come attacking me with torches please allow me a moment to explain.
I'm not saying that the bible is wrong, or that it isn't good, or even that God did not have a hand in it.
I'm saying it was written by human beings, beings which are imperfect, make mistakes and have a free will. Beings who form committees to decide which of the words sound best and which need to be thrown out.
Tagged as: | stumbleme | religion | god | thoughts | writing | philosophy | stumbleupon | stumbleupon.com | stumble
Learn to Write Correct English 3: The Colon, Semi-colon, and the Hyphen
A nice tutorial on when to use colon, semi-colins and hypens. My writing habits stink, so this would make a good reference
Tagged as: | stumbleme | writing | english | grammar | writing | writinghood | style | grammar
Funny metaphors used in high school essays
I've read this one before, a long time ago, so I had to add it to my collection. Good for a laugh to turn your frown upside down.
Metaphors used by high school students
Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master.
2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.
3. He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.
4. She grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli, and he was room temperature Canadian beef.
5. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.
6. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
7. He was as tall as a six-foot, three-inch tree.
8. The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated because of his wife's infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a formerly surcharge-free ATM machine
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10 Big Myths about copyright explained
With recent changes to copyright law, I felt it best to go back to the basics. In this article by, Brad Templeton, he identifies common myths about copyright and gives a clear picture of what is copyright and how it works in laymans terms.
The article was orginally written in 1994 and updated in 2004 but many of the things still hold true especially with regards to terms such as 'fair use' and public domain.
A great reference when you are trying to remember 'is it okay to copy this?'
Tagged as: | copyright | business | writing | students | law | legal
Budgeting for your blog
It's always a good idea to keep a few posts (or more ahead). I love the earlier commentors reference to thinking of it like finances. You need a safety buffer should something go wrong.
The technique I use is to always keep my blog opened in a tab in Firefox. When inspiration strikes, I quickly start the post, write a few lines and hit save. I use the subject to keep track of the status [Major Edits],[Minor Edits],[Ready]. Then each day I try to add a bit to each post keeping 4 or 5 Ready's at any given time and 10 to 15 posts that need some editing.
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