Philip at Ocracoke Island Journal was reading War and Peace on an e-reader and marveling at how lightweight it made the heavy tome, when he found something peculiar. As I was reading, I came across this sentence: "It wa...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/06/02/when-find-and-replace-goes-wrong/
There are some websites that are so interesting an... ...to learn something about the culture of Wikipedia editing . The Awl looks at the editing history of one provocative entry: Since 2001, th...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/25/case-history-of-a-wikipedia-page-nabokovs-lolita/
Here's a law that strikes home here at Neatorama.... ...states: 1. if you write anything criticising editing or proofreading, there will be a fault in what yo... ...2. if an author thanks you in a book for your editing or proofreading, there will be mistakes in the bo... ...greater the fault; and 4. ...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/18/muphrys-law/
Novels, movies, cartoons, tattoos... everything is better on the second draft. 1. THE CATCH IN CATCH 22: The Edit that became an idiom In 1961, author Joseph Heller finally submitted his manuscript for Catch-18 to...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/07/29/ten-incredible-perfect-moments-in-the-history-of-editing/
A literary-technical tour de force, and the man behind it by Marc Abrahams, Improbable Research staff Philip M. Parker is the world’s fastest book author, and given that he has been at it only for about five...
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/10/05/how-to-write-85000-books/GoPro HD - Skimboarding In A Storm! from Patrick Lawler on Vimeo. High riptide warning, watercraft advisory, flash floods, tons and tons of rain, extreme danger! These are all words that David doesn't really pay att...
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/01/29/stormy-skimboarding/remanence : variance from Samuel Cockedey on Vimeo... ...rtualDub (deshaker/deflicker filters)/Sony Vegas ( editing ). Original rendered in 1080p. Also, check out...
http://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/17/remanence-variance/[YouTube - Link] Even though this is an ad for the ADG Conference the underlying message is very neat. To be a freak maybe different but then again we are all different so does this make us all freaks in the end?...
http://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/05/freaks/
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuU00Q3RhD... ...r tabbing. 1 hour of shooting. God knows how much editing
http://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/09/guitar-impossible/Montage-maker Paul Proulx's work has been featured on Neatorama before, but I just couldn't resist myself again: Proulx has recently put together a 2-minute clip that features moments from his 100 favorite films. At firs...
http://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/29/100-films-in-under-2-minutes/
