Tabloid headline seekrits OMG; printing buildings; Kincaid on why reviewers and critics do it …

• 1 – Textpattern
  “A flexible, elegant and easy-to-use content management system. Textpattern is both free and open source.” Looks interesting – cheers, JT!
  (tags: freeware wysiwyg xhtml Textpattern CMS)
• 2 – Get Your Headline Mojo Moving: 52 Idea Starters, No Excuses
  “… handy tip sheet of 52 ways to kick start your own brilliant headline.” Tabloid-ish, sure – but those damn things sell better than anything else, so there must be something to it. AMIRITE?
  (tags: tabloid inspiration headlines copywriting writing)
• 3 – The Failure of Established Systems
  “There’s nothing any publisher, studio, or organization can do about it. Either they provide creative content so inexpensively and conveniently that it’s stupid to pirate the content, or they will go by the wayside.”
  (tags: content model business piracy publishing industry creative writing)
• 4 – ‘Party chat’ brain filter discovered
  “… researchers have struggled to understand just how the human brain manages to filter out a single thread of conversation from a tangle of similar background noises.”
  (tags: cocktail-party-effect neuroscience speech science language)
• 5 – Built for Speed: Printing Buildings
  “Contour Crafting is an effort to scale up rapid prototyping/manufacturing (a billion dollar industry to make 3 dimensional parts) and inkjet printing techniques to the scale of building multi-story buildings and vehicles.”
  (tags: engineering technology buildings printing fabbing fabrication architecture construction)
• 6 – These We Have Loved – Paul Kincaid
  “The more we read, the more we write about what we read (which entails a more detailed consideration of what does and does not work than we were wont to give when we just read for pleasure), the rarer those moments of wonder and delight seem.”
  (tags: criticism reviewing literature genre fiction science scifi sf Kincaid)
• 7 – Rhetorics of Fantasy by Farah Mendlesohn, reviewed by John Clute
  “Rhetorics of Fantasy, most of which is superbly thought through, is perhaps the first full-length study of the vast fuzzy genre of fantasy to have been written as though the genre exists.”
  (tags: Mendlesohn fiction literature fantasy genre Rhetorics)