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Pixar, Wall-E, and the virtue of work

I’m pretty exited about Pixar’s upcoming robot film called Wall-E. The premise is that Wall-E is a robot left on earth to clean up all the trash humans left behind when they flew off into the stars. Or, to put it another way, he’s a robot with a job.
Watch the newest Wall-E Trailer here.
The idea […]

How to write for internet readers

In April 2007 Technorati reported that:

There are over 70 Million Weblogs.
Over 120,000 new Weblogs are created every day.
Over 1.4 million posts are published every day.
Nearly 3 million bloggers are taken advantage of tags to better categorize their content.

With all that writing, why is it that half the time I can’t figure out what any of […]

Heroes and The Children of Húrin

The Children of Húrin is a dark tale filled with bittersweet success, looming doom, and ultimate defeat. Sacrifice secures but a little breathing room and gain quickly fades into the shadow of the overarching oppression of the time. Love is foolishly placed and wisdom is shunned as characters continually seek immediate gratification and, in so […]