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April 2013

Get Started on YOUR Copywriting Career!

“Writing is your passion. Why not make it your day job, too?” Ugh. Writer’s Digest University is selling this load + more

The Secret Life of Punctuation

Keith Houston has done a remarkable job in reducing the history of punctuation down to 530 words. Take a couple of + more

Musical Interlude

Spring seems (finally!) to have arrived in our neck of the woods. Regular readers of the blog know what that + more

Miscellany

A Russian billionaire (sure seems to be a lot of those lately) is building an army of cyborgs…while man-powered robotic + more

Lucky 13

Despite a long list of shortcomings that includes listening to Bon Jovi and keeping a man-eating tarantula on her desk, + more

Unsung Hero

Victoria Ertelt, library administrator at Mount Angel Abbey, poses next to one of the Alvar Aalto chairs on display at + more

A couple of architects walk into a museum…

Bob Nixon, left, and Glenn Davis visited SPOMa over the weekend. Nixon, who served as a partner at both Walker & + more

RIP, Storm Thorgerson

It’s a pity the digital age has somewhat lessened the impact of album cover art. Storm Thorgerson, who died yesterday, + more

“They waterproof their dense fur by preening it free of oil and schmutz…”

If this headline doesn’t reach out of your computer screen, grab you by the throat, and provide a vigorous demonstration + more

Word Porn

This is the sort of thing I love about the English language: seemingly arbitrary, yet also somehow rational—not to mention + more

More on Music

In a comment on yesterday’s post, regular reader and photographer extraordinaire (and, full disclosure, long-time friend) Derek Helt raises an interesting question: Because the + more

Daily Conundrum

Walla Walla has a population of 32,148; Spokane 210,103. Walla Walla has an honest-to-God record store; Spokane doesn’t. Discuss amongst + more

Greeley Diary, part 5

Ed Edmunds, star of the Travel Channel’s Making Monsters, poses with two of his creations for ILF Media director of + more

Greeley Diary, part 4

Setting up a shoot at downtown Greeley’s Café Panache, a Parisian-style crêperie where, in addition to sweet and savory crêpes, you can + more

Greeley Diary, part 3

Tim O’Hara (left), a commercial photographer based in Fort Collins, Colorado, poses with Armando Silva (center) and our fearless leader + more

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