Wednesday, March 10, 2010
My sister was doing geneological research last night, and she found out that we’re direct descendants of Geoffrey Chaucer. He was my 17-greats grandfather.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Your Food Environment Atlas: Get a spatial overview of a community’s ability to access healthy food and its success in doing so. From the USDA. (via)
Sunday, February 21, 2010
ad for the Observer relaunch
Friday, February 19, 2010
Black Lake from David OReilly on Vimeo.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Their backs stubbornly
faced the danger, and then were
swallowed up by it.
Frank was a good man.
She had no reason to be
unhappy with him.
They watch her struggle
to stay awake, the dolls gripped
tightly in each hand.
I just look at her.
The moonlight slides over her
face like a slow tide.
- Collaborations between my work and Haiku Finder (via).
My chapbook [...]
Saturday, February 6, 2010
The Department of Justice has concerns. (via)
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Further to my earlier post about the Google Book Settlement, I registered on their site and discovered that they’ve scanned my poetry book The Glaze from Breaking (there’s a “yes” in the column entitled “Digitized without authorization on or before May 5, 2009″). They also think it’s “commercially available” i.e. in print, even though it [...]
Thursday, January 21, 2010
The Amended Settlement filed in Authors Guild v. Google creates a non-profit Book Rights Registry governed by authors and publishers to oversee the settlement on their behalf. A Fairness Hearing has been scheduled for February 18, 2010; authors have until January 28, 2010 to opt out of the agreement. The SFWA is objecting to (among [...]
