How Edmund Wilson said NO
How Edmund Wilson said NO
Here’s literary critic Edmund Wilson’s form-letter for turning down requests from strangers. As Tim Ferriss notes, Wilson wasn’t a hermit or antisocial, but he maximized the time he spent socializing with the people he liked by not letting strangers gobble up his time:
Edmund Wilson regrets that it is impossible for him without compensation to:
read manuscripts
< contribute to books or periodicals
do editorial work
judge literary contests
deliver lectures
address meetings
make after-dinner speeches
broadcast;
Under any circumstances to:
contribute to or take part in symposiums
take part in chain-poems or other collective compositions
contribute manuscripts for sales
donate copies of his books to libraries
autograph books for strangers
supply personal information about himself
supply photographs of himself
allow his name to be used on letter-heads
receive unknown persons who have no apparent business with him.
The Best Decline Letter of All-Time: Edmund Wilson (via Making Light) 
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How Edmund Wilson said NO
How Edmund Wilson said NO
Here’s literary critic Edmund Wilson’s form-letter for turning down requests from strangers. As Tim Ferriss notes, Wilson wasn’t a hermit or antisocial, but he maximized the time he spent socializing with the people he liked by not letting strangers gobble up his time:
Edmund Wilson regrets that it is impossible for him without compensation to:
read manuscripts
< contribute to books or periodicals
do editorial work
judge literary contests
deliver lectures
address meetings
make after-dinner speeches
broadcast;
Under any circumstances to:
contribute to or take part in symposiums
take part in chain-poems or other collective compositions
contribute manuscripts for sales
donate copies of his books to libraries
autograph books for strangers
supply personal information about himself
supply photographs of himself
allow his name to be used on letter-heads
receive unknown persons who have no apparent business with him.
The Best Decline Letter of All-Time: Edmund Wilson (via Making Light)
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How Edmund Wilson said NO
How Edmund Wilson said NO
Here’s literary critic Edmund Wilson’s form-letter for turning down requests from strangers. As Tim Ferriss notes, Wilson wasn’t a hermit or antisocial, but he maximized the time he spent socializing with the people he liked by not letting strangers gobble up his time:
Edmund Wilson regrets that it is impossible for him without compensation to:
read manuscripts
< contribute to books or periodicals
do editorial work
judge literary contests
deliver lectures
address meetings
make after-dinner speeches
broadcast;
Under any circumstances to:
contribute to or take part in symposiums
take part in chain-poems or other collective compositions
contribute manuscripts for sales
donate copies of his books to libraries
autograph books for strangers
supply personal information about himself
supply photographs of himself
allow his name to be used on letter-heads
receive unknown persons who have no apparent business with him.
The Best Decline Letter of All-Time: Edmund Wilson (via Making Light) 
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The unsung heroes of early Tumblr culture
The unsung heroes of early Tumblr culture
A good read in The Daily Dot about a “major piece of the puzzle” in Tumblr’s origin myth that’s often overlooked: “[Founder David] Karp wasn’t the first person to create a tumblelog, the term used to describe the stripped-down blogging and content curation he has become known for. He wasn’t even the second. The true origin of Tumblr involves a German and an American, hundreds of lines of code, and their common desire to change the way we think about blogging.”
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3D printing: with 2D; with holograms; and all-in-one 3D scanning
3D printing: with 2D; with holograms; and all-in-one 3D scanning
Here’s a video from last week’s Maker Faire showcasing technologies for printing out 3D-ish objects using 2D printers: ModelBox turns a 3D model into a series of 2D images you print on acetate and set into a frame to cheaply and quickly prototype/simulate the 3D object; Zebra Images turns 3D models into holograms; and Lynx Laboratories demos its all-in-one 3D scanner.
3D Printing on a 2D printer?! – Maker Faire 2013 (Thanks, Francis!) 
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The unsung heroes of early Tumblr culture
The unsung heroes of early Tumblr culture
A good read in The Daily Dot about a “major piece of the puzzle” in Tumblr’s origin myth that’s often overlooked: “[Founder David] Karp wasn’t the first person to create a tumblelog, the term used to describe the stripped-down blogging and content curation he has become known for. He wasn’t even the second. The true origin of Tumblr involves a German and an American, hundreds of lines of code, and their common desire to change the way we think about blogging.”
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The unsung heroes of early Tumblr culture
The unsung heroes of early Tumblr culture
A good read in The Daily Dot about a “major piece of the puzzle” in Tumblr’s origin myth that’s often overlooked: “[Founder David] Karp wasn’t the first person to create a tumblelog, the term used to describe the stripped-down blogging and content curation he has become known for. He wasn’t even the second. The true origin of Tumblr involves a German and an American, hundreds of lines of code, and their common desire to change the way we think about blogging.”
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3D printing: with 2D; with holograms; and all-in-one 3D scanning
3D printing: with 2D; with holograms; and all-in-one 3D scanning
Here’s a video from last week’s Maker Faire showcasing technologies for printing out 3D-ish objects using 2D printers: ModelBox turns a 3D model into a series of 2D images you print on acetate and set into a frame to cheaply and quickly prototype/simulate the 3D object; Zebra Images turns 3D models into holograms; and Lynx Laboratories demos its all-in-one 3D scanner.
3D Printing on a 2D printer?! – Maker Faire 2013 (Thanks, Francis!) 
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3D printing: with 2D; with holograms; and all-in-one 3D scanning
3D printing: with 2D; with holograms; and all-in-one 3D scanning
Here’s a video from last week’s Maker Faire showcasing technologies for printing out 3D-ish objects using 2D printers: ModelBox turns a 3D model into a series of 2D images you print on acetate and set into a frame to cheaply and quickly prototype/simulate the 3D object; Zebra Images turns 3D models into holograms; and Lynx Laboratories demos its all-in-one 3D scanner.
3D Printing on a 2D printer?! – Maker Faire 2013 (Thanks, Francis!)
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Monster money!
Monster money!
Google Translate says that the caption on this image is Japanese for “Bill of surprised frontispiece monster world.” I can’t really hazard any guesses beyond that, but hey, monster money!
『びっくり口絵 怪物世界のお札』 (via Crazy Abalone)
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