World Digital Library Home Allen Ginsberg - Howl For Carl Solomon I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night, who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz, who bared their brains to Heaven under the El and saw Mohammedan angels staggering on tenement roofs illuminated, who passed through universities with radiant eyes hallucinating Arkansas and Blake-light tragedy among the scholars of war, who were expelled from the academies for crazy & publishing obscene odes on the windows of the skull, who cowered in unshaven rooms in underwear, burning their money in wastebaskets and listening to the Terror through the wall, who thought they were only mad when Baltimore gleamed in supernatural ecstasy,
History of the 'at' symbol @ commercial at Home Bidding Information FYI email History of @ What do you call the @ symbol used in e-mail addresses? From: Cool Quiz.com That little "a" with a circle curling around it that is found in email addresses is most commonly referred to as the "at" symbol. For instance, some quirky names for the @ symbol include: apenstaartje - Dutch for "monkey's tail" snabel - Danish for "elephant's trunk" kissanhnta - Finnish for "cat's tail" klammeraffe - German for "hanging monkey" papaki - Greek for "little duck" kukac - Hungarian for "worm" dalphaengi - Korean for "snail" grisehale - Norwegian for "pig's tail" sobachka - Russian for "little dog" More on the symbology Before it became the standard symbol for electronic mail, the @ symbol was used to represent the cost or weight of something. With the introduction of e-mail came the popularity of the @ symbol. The actual origin of the @ symbol remains an enigma. Another story tells the @ symbol was used as an abbreviation for the word amphora.
PoemHunter.Com - Thousands of poems and poets. Poetry Search Engine Welcome to Llewellyn Worldwide - New Age Publisher in Tarot, Wicca and Witchcraft, Magick, Shamanism, Astrology and Lo Scarabeo products Kurt Vonnegut explains drama I was at a Kurt Vonnegut talk in New York a few years ago. Talking about writing, life, and everything. He explained why people have such a need for drama in their life. He said, “People have been hearing fantastic stories since time began. He drew an empty grid on the board, like this: Time moves from left to right. He said, “Let's look at a very common story arc. It starts with her awful life with evil stepsisters, scrubbing the fireplace. “People LOVE that story! He wiped the board clean and said, “Now let's look at another popular story arc: the disaster.” It's an ordinary day in an ordinary town. But the problem is, life is really like this... Our lives drifts along with normal things happening. “But because we grew up surrounded by big dramatic story arcs in books and movies, we think our lives are supposed to be filled with huge ups and downs! That's why people invent fights. We're trying to make our life into a fairy tale.
I’ve stood around too long’ Central Kings students wear pink to send bullies a messageBy IAN FAIRCLOUGH Central Kings Rural High School students David Shepherd and Travis Price CAMBRIDGE — Two students at Central Kings Rural High School fought back against bullying recently, unleashing a sea of pink after a new student was harassed and threatened when he showed up wearing a pink shirt. The Grade 9 student arrived for the first day of school last Wednesday and was set upon by a group of six to 10 older students who mocked him, called him a homosexual for wearing pink and threatened to beat him up. The next day, Grade 12 students David Shepherd and Travis Price decided something had to be done about bullying. "It’s my last year. They used the Internet to encourage people to wear pink and bought 75 pink tank tops for male students to wear. "I made sure there was a shirt for him," David said. They also brought a pink basketball to school as well as pink material for headbands and arm bands.
OMG ... another Kindle killer Just when you thought there couldn't be one more Kindle killer, Barnes & Noble comes out with a brand new digital book reader called "the nook." The device is very similar to the Kindle in size and price ($259) but it includes a full-color touchscreen! It also has a nifty browser function that lets you pan through full-color book cover icons to select your book, similar to the touchscreen panning feature of the iPhone. The device is 3G, so according to the Barnes & Noble website you can download over a million titles in seconds rather than minutes, and B & N is letting users flip through any book for free prior to purchasing it. This "bookstore in a box" functionality is paired with a new technology called E ink which lets the user zoom in at random and maintain a crisp resolution on the text.
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Name That Character! by Anne Marble A character's name is a basic part of that character, but it can sometimes be hard to come by just the right name. These tips might make that passage a little easier. Warning! Ten Tips on Choosing Names Let the Names Reflect the Characters Give characters names that tell you something about them. Make Sure the Name Doesn't Belong to Someone Famous Sometimes, when you hit the right name, it will feel just right, as if it had been on the tip of your tongue, as if you had known your character's name all along and just had to remember it. This doesn't mean that you have to come up with a name that no one has. Avoid Names That End in S This tip sounds trivial, but it can save you a lot of trouble later. Use Names That Fit the Period If you're writing a historical or Regency romance, do some research on names common to the era. Also, no matter how good your sources are, don't grab the first name you see. Avoid the Trends Avoid Overly Weird Names and Cute Spellings Surname Tips Anne M.