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The Store

July 15, 2007 — peter

Welcome to my store, where you can buy PDF versions of my first novel, Please, and selected short stories. Click on the links below to read excerpts. If you would like a personalized copy, or if you have any problems with files, e-mail me at peter@peterdarbyshire.com. Enjoy.

Please: A Novel ($9.99 via credit card or PayPal — buy now)

Beat the Geeks (99 cents via credit card or PayPal — buy now)

Deja Yu Makes the Pain Go Away (99 cents via credit card or PayPal — buy now)

Has the World Ended Yet? (99 cents via credit card or PayPal — buy now)

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How the H1N1 vaccine is made

The most striking feature of the H1N1 flu vaccine manufacturing process is the 1,200,000,000 chicken eggs required to make the 3 billion doses of vaccine that may be required worldwide. There are entire chicken farms in the US and around the world dedicated to producing eggs for the purpose of incubating influenza viruses for use in vaccines. No wonder it ta […]

Jason Kottke

Revenue reality of a bestseller

Revenue reality of a bestseller. Lynn Viehl's Twilight Fall was a top 20 mass market paperback bestseller. Here, she analyzes and posts her royalties and discovers "If I published only one book a year, and it did as well as this one, my net would be only around $2500.00 over the income level considered to be the US poverty threshold."

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The Lighthouse Keeper

The latest short to come out of the Gobelins animation school is The Lighthouse Keeper, and it is stunning. So much suspense and beauty is packed into this three minutes of traditional 2D animation. It’s the work of Gaëlle Thierry, Jérémie Moreau, Rony Hotin, Baptiste Rogron, Maïlys Vallade, and David François. Posted by John Martz on Drawn! The Illustration […]

John Martz

Time to get in the water, ya?

National Geographic photographer Paul Nicklen (previously) relates the harrowing tale of a sweet, insistent, and ferocious lunchmate (note - clip begins with a dramatic drumbeat, mind your speakers) As a side note, jontyjago has shown us that human/leopard seal encounters do not always end well.

Hypnotic Chick

The Answer Factory: Demand Media and the Fast, Disposable, and Profitable as Hell Media Model | Magazine

Christian Muñoz-Donoso is going to make this job pay, he's got to move quickly. He has a list of 10 videos to shoot on this warm June morning, for

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THE DRUG DOES WORK

At Cambridge over the summer, many students were taking pills to help their concentration. Ed Cumming was among them ...From INTELLIGENT LIFE Magazine, Autumn 2009One evening this summer, in our final term at Cambridge, my roommate Katie threw a party. Our set was in a 17th-century attic, and its sloping ceilings framed a gorgeous view: a panorama taking in […]

Ed Cumming

Guerrilla Marketing | A Hostage Store in Stockholm - The Moment Blog - NYTimes.com

Courtesy of Ann Sofie Back A still from the YouTube "hostage" video by the designer Ann Sofie Back. Throughout her career, the Swedish designer Ann Sofie Back has embraced bad taste. Her ripped, stitched, tattered and generally askew aesthetic has been inspired by everything from Wildensteinesque plastic surgery to Lindsay Lohan's lack of unde […]

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Master in the making

Turner is hailed as a proto-modernist, a 'painterly' painter concerned more with surface and light than subject matter. But, as a new show reveals, his originality grew out of a fashionable imitation of the Grand StyleTurner is a complicated figure in relation to the big picture of truly great art through the ages. But it's exactly this contex […]

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Phantom limbs can contort into impossible configurations : Neurophilosophy

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Professionalization in the academy | Harvard Magazine Nov-Dec 2009

On the professionalization of faculty life, doctoral training, and the academy’s self-renewal

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