We currently have 6,000 languages in active use across the world; by 2050 we will have lost half of them. Peter K. Austin, in — One Thousand Languages — takes us on a multicultural tour of the most interesting remaining languages.
You found 10txt.com and we welcome you! You have hit upon a site consisting of stories in 10 words. No more. No less. Can you write a dramatic story with a beginning, middle, and an end in exactly ten words? Yes. Watch us.
SuperGenius author and entertainer Michael Crichton died this week. He was 66. Cancer killed him. Unfortunately
— Michael kept his illness a secret from the public — and we take
issue with that selfish hiding as we argued earlier this week on RelationShaping:
Continue reading → Michael Crichton Cheated Us Out of Goodbye
Can we resist the mob mentality? Seneca, the great Roman thinker, warned us in his life and from his death, that we must resist the measure of the mainstream.
When we get lost, the first place we look to find our way back home is a yearning glance over our shoulder. We turn back to discover the forward of where we’ve been and how we’ve come to be here. Sometimes we learn the lessons of the past. Sometimes we condemn our future by ignoring the warnings of a world gone awry in antiquity, and we pay for the sins of that dishonest disremembering by reliving the death and blood of our forefathers. In 1894, Henry Demarest Lloyd warned us in his incredible — Wealth Against Commonwealth — book that “Big Business” corrupts liberty and sets national agendas of death and killing for the almighty dollar. Over a hundred years later, we have yet to heed Lloyd’s warning as we sink deeper into an international depression of our own undoing.
Continue reading → Wealth Against Commonwealth and the Wrath of the Present Past
There is nothing worse for a writer than an Author Review that never ends. The fingers crumble. The mind withers. The eye explodes.
As an author, you must always write your own way, but you must also arouse the mercy of your readers in order to create evergreen True Art.
In a bizarre twist on mangling the meaning of writing a book — “author” Philip Parker now claims “writing” over 200,000 books — using computers as a co-author and Amazon’s BookSurge.com Vanity Press as his publisher.
You and I know blogging is a job — and a genetic obsession — and now, thanks to The New York Times, everyone else knows blogging is killing us all.
My friend, Gordon Davidescu, sent me this interesting link from O’Reilly publishing where you buy a book that is bound in a school-like binder and then you can either download updated chapters and cut them up and place them in the binder or you can order pre-cut pages from the publisher to add to your book binder.
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