RhetoricVille

Here’s a web site for those who find the NaNoWriMo pace a little pokey: http://book-in-a-week.com/whatis.htm

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US cook wins blogging book prize (BBC News)
Earlier this week, a cooking blog turned into a cooking book won the first literary prize (the “Blooker”) for such transformations. Julie Powell blogged about her efforts to cook all of the recipes in a 1961 book on French cooking by Julie Child. The book version of […]

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Lighthouse Trail
This photo was taken during our anniversay trip to Ludington, MI, last fall. To me, the visual argument is similar to that of the Mackinaw Bridge photo I posted yesterday. Here you have a lighthouse tower poking up above the sand dunes in the distance, a vast empty sky, and a lone human figure […]

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A study reported in the current issue of Nature suggests that intelligence is linked to brain growth patterns in adolescence. According to one of the researchers, “It’s not that brainy children have more grey matter. The story of intelligence is in the trajectory of brain development.”In the study, researchers split children into three groups on […]

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WikiHome - codebook - JotSpot
“Lawrence Lessig first published Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace in 1999. After five years in print and five years of changes in law, technology, and the context in which they reside, Code needs an update. But rather than do this alone, Professor Lessig is using this wiki to open the […]

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