Welcome to cygnoir's online home. The word "cygnoir" is a portmanteau of "cygne" and "noir" — the French words for "swan" and "black".
// November 1st, 2008 // Comments Off // Uncategorized
R.I.P. Studs Terkel
The great Studs Terkel, author, oral historian, radio personality, social activist, and unashamed Liberal, passed away yesterday at 96.
I wish I’d had the opportunity to get to know…
// November 1st, 2008 // Comments Off // Uncategorized
Multicolr Search Lab
From the site: “We extracted the colours from 10 million of the most “interesting” Creative Commons images on Flickr. Using our visual similarity technology you can navigate the collection by…
// November 1st, 2008 // 3 Comments » // Meta, Writing
If I disappear for a few weeks, don’t worry: I am participating in National Novel-Writing Month, a/k/a NaNoWriMo. Why am I torturing myself with this 50k-word exercise again this year? For the simple fact that I desperately need to get back into the habit of writing every single day, and this is the brute-force method I know that works best.
I admire my friend Adam’s dedication to documenting his NaNoWriMo experience, and hope to do the same with mine this year.
