Featured Blog Posts – January 2011 Archive (27)

I was finding it extremely difficult to find a sixth image (not that there aren't hundreds of great images on this site), I almost had to resort to talking about myself. I know, you are extraordinarily lucky not to have to deal with that. I hope you are only reading this for a variety of assorted interesting, artistic or humorous images, because I have definitely run out of themes.

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Hello, everyone. As The Lone Wanderer mentioned, I'll be spearheading the design process from here on out. With a couple of design degrees, and some professional web design experience, I'll hopefully be up for the task.

This color scheme should be a bit easier on everyone's eyes. (…

So, looks interesting, right? This is the prospective layout of the new site's homepage. 

The focus of this blog post is the colour scheme, and as a community, our opinions in regard to it. It was chosen by the people, and the colours featured can be found here:…

Hello Nerdfighteria! Have you ever met any of your favourite authors?  I had the great priviledge to meet two of MY favourite authors this week. It made my life and I can't stop talking about it... which is obviously why I'm writing this post. I just wanted to know if anyone else had met cool authors. And if you haven't, who would you most like to meet? 

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So the reasons why we don't drink pig milk or eat pig cheese are complicated. Clearly, cows, sheep, goats, all produce excellent milk and cheese. Even camels are milked.

But pigs are one of the exceptions to the farmyard milking rule. Pigs and horses and mice and dogs and cats all are not milked. Why? Well, let's just stick to pigs for now, because if we include all of those animals, I'd have to write a whole book.

So there are several important…

As you may know by now, January's blurbing book club selection this month is Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card.  I really hope that you're doing everything that you can to find a copy of this book, read it and discuss and blurb the book in the dedicated discussion thread.  It's a really wonderful book with a huge fanbase and I've been loving every single comment I've read about it in the…

Sarcasm is not easy to convey in textual farm. To emphasise this, this image blog is made almost entirely of sarcasm... Suuure it is...

Oh how BEAUTIFUL; French llamas snogging is EXACTLY what I wanted to see.

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Yes, I have never done a collaboration, but I've been part of some failed attempts, so I have some idea what usually goes wrong. Wait! Geoffrey, what the heck does this have to do with the forums? Hold on, I'll get to that very soon.

Most  of the collaborations will start on the forums. "Hey, I'm starting a vlog collaboration, who wants to join?" Now the first problem arises right after this. The people who actually respond can't always do a vlog. Either because they don't…

Sometimes I write these blog posts assuming that everyone is on Twitter like me and follows lots of bookish people.  I know that this isn't the case (but WHY isn't this the case, hmm?!), but I'm sure at least some of you were aware that yesterday was a special day for those interested in YA literature.  It was the announcements of the American Library…