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Read on to win a new Meeting Boy wall calendar! We have a nice interview/contest today with someone you need to know about if you don't already. PC World named him one of the 10 Funniest People On Twitter. Like Racer X, no one really knows who MeetingBoy
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In 1988, before the Internet was widely available to college students, Ken Ramberg and his mother Connie, founded a service called JobTRAK. Employers would submit job openings to JobTRAK, who would then fax them to college career offices. They grew profi
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We're thrilled to have Joshua Davis in the house today. If you don't know his writing, it's high time you checked it out. His latest piece, which appeared in last month's Wired is a great place to start. A story about one of the most amazing diamond heist
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Our Creatively Speaking interview series continues today with acclaimed film writer/director/actor, Henry Jaglom. His most famous films are probably Eating and Déjà Vu, but Jaglom has an impressive body of work (some 20 films, many of which are now avai
Today we have a real treat: Scientific American writer/author George Musser joins us for a chat about his new book: The Complete Idiot's Guide to String Theory. As always, we'll be giving away a copy of the book in a special contest tomorrow. But, as alwa
Our Creatively Speaking series of interviews continues this week with the brilliant photographer Kevin Scanlon. If you read The New York Times, Forbes, Time Magazine, or LA Weekly, you probably already know Kevin's work. But today you're going to have a c
Our Creatively Speaking series of interviews continues this week with Marc Tyler Nobleman, author of the recently published Boys of Steel - The Creators of Superman. I got to know Marc first through his wonderful cartoons, one of which you'll see tomorrow
Our Creatively Speaking series of interviews continues this week with J. Michael Matkin, author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Gnostic Gospels, and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Early Christianity, just published last month. I found it very well wri
You might recall my post on June Casagrande's first book, Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies. Well, she's back with a new book, Mortal Syntax 101 (Language Choices that Will Get You Clobbered by the Grammar Snobs Even if You're Right) and on Friday we'll
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