China’s exports footprint; TechShop; making story hooks; lack of inspiration is a crap excuse …

• 1 – 33% of China’s carbon footprint blamed on exports
  “… one-third of China’s carbon dioxide emissions are pumped into the atmosphere in order to manufacture exported goods – many of them “advanced” electronics goods destined for developed countries.” Funny how fault apportions.
  (tags: change climate technology exports economics footprint carbon China)
• 2 – Swapping facial features protects online privacy
  “… software that gives everyone a face – just not their own. The software randomly selects 33,000 photos of faces from picture-sharing sites like Flickr.com, then picks the most suitable faces for each person in shot.”
  (tags: software privacy photograph facial google street-view weird)
• 3 – TechShop: ‘Like Kinko’s, For Geeks’
  Damn you, world – stop stealing my story ideas!
  (tags: resource central local center building project maker DIY)
• 4 – How to Craft a Great Hook
  “A hook is what will attract an agent to your project, and, later on, a reader to your book. It’s that magnet that draws people to the story and makes them want to read more. It’s really essential. But what, really, is a hook?”
  (tags: plot conflict hook story fiction writing)
• 5 – “How to Say Nothing in 500 Words”
  “Topics may change, but the core principles of good writing remain constant, and this essay as become something of a minor classic in explaining them.” Half a century old, still relevant.
  (tags: technique rhetoric essay composition blogging writing)
• 6 – The Writer’s Biggest Excuse: Inspiration
  “The writer who makes excuses has one.”
  (tags: discipline inspiration writing)