Tag Archives: interesting stuff

Four things on a Friday (and sometimes, Saturday)

A filler post, oh dear internet, of silly videos and what not.

Six random things on a Saturday

Just a wee filler post. Up for grabs: yummy pancakes, distraction on the internet, hilarious cat video, and making your own rugs…

The beauty industry thinks you’re a sucker

How the beauty industry uses four key techniques to make squillions advertising to us susceptible oh-shit-I’m-getting-older women.

Four random things on a Friday

Four random things on a Friday…

Random collection #52

A few links and scattered things for a Monday

Book cover design

Today at lunchtime, I found a few blogs about book cover design. I’ve known for a while that authors get no say in how their books look — which I understand but still think sucks — but I never knew that even publishers can get their selected designs overturned by the big time booksellers!

A post before I start my proper writing tonight

Oh noes, I think I am getting a cold. Must be my new commute, mashed in to the tube with all the other commuters. So far the new job has been good! Am still learning the ropes (I think I am finally figuring out what my company actually *does*). The new place is more corporate read more »

The time to train for any athletic feat is before, not after

A break in the writing today (lots of reading & editing, and a few new words, on In Finding). This is a neat video from the Wellcome Collection — a medical & science museum in London that’s very close to where my new job is. “Childbirth as an Athletic Feat” (1939) shows a class of read more »