See illustrations for my short story, 'Button Man'

daggyland:

Illustrator Tom Pokinko posted some images he created for my upcoming story in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine (AHMM). I’d rather not reveal what the story’s about until it pubs in December, but you might be able to glean some clues from the pencil sketch and the final ink sketch on the blog of this Ottawa, Canada-based illustrator. Thanks, Tom!

Yay for my husband, Joseph D’Agnese! LOVE these sketches and can’t wait to see them in AHMM. Thanks to @TomPokinko for giving great art to Joe’s words.

futurejournalismproject:

NASA Animation of Temperature Data from 1880-2011

Via The Climate Desk, “a journalistic collaboration dedicated to exploring the impact—human, environmental, economic, political—of a changing climate. The partners are The Atlantic, Center for Investigative Reporting, Grist, The Guardian, Mother Jones, Slate, Wired, and PBS’s new public-affairs show Need To Know.” 

daggyland: This just in! My wife and sometimes co-author Denise Kiernan just got the cover of her next book, The Girls of Atomic City, about the women who unknowingly worked to create the fuel for the first bomb. It’s a true story—a narrative nonfi…

daggyland:

This just in!

My wife and sometimes co-author Denise Kiernan just got the cover of her next book, The Girls of Atomic City, about the women who unknowingly worked to create the fuel for the first bomb.

It’s a true story—a narrative nonfiction title that will be published by Touchstone/Simon & Schuster in March 2013.

I’m proud of her. It’s a project she’s been working on, in various ways, for the last seven years or so.

To find out more, you can check out Denise’s website…

Sign up for the newsletter at the book site…

Check out her old-timey WWII-era images on her Tumblr blog.

You can pre-order via Amazon.

Or pre-order a signed copy via our indie bookstore, Malaprops. 

I’ll post again about this when she gets a trailer together.

Thanks to my hubby for posting this. I can take no credit for designing this cover, but I am so very happy with it. Book is finally feeling real after all these years…

pbs-food:

Julia Child would have turned 100 on August 15th! In her honor, PBS Digital Studios brings you a special birthday treat: a funky new Julia Child remix that celebrates her wisdom, wit & superb kitchen skills. Please share with your friends!

Join the PBSFood #CookForJulia Birthday Party, including rare videos, photos, tributes from your favorite chefs and more fun at http://www.pbs.org/juliachild

This is our jam! 

Julia has been auto tuned! Brilliant remix by melodysheep, aka John D. Boswell.  So bring on the roasted potatoes for one of the great ladies of all times. Off to go buy some butter…. 

thelucidpelican: Do you like Fonts? Who doesn’t. They’re pretty sexy. From Simon Garfield’s excellent book. Two of my favorite things, together at last: the periodic table and fonts. This delicious image was adapted from “Periodic Table of T…

thelucidpelican:

Do you like Fonts? Who doesn’t. They’re pretty sexy.

From Simon Garfield’s excellent book.

Two of my favorite things, together at last: the periodic table and fonts.

This delicious image was adapted from “Periodic Table of Typefaces,” copyright Camdon Wilde/Squidspot.com, with additional commentary from Just My Type author, Simon Garfield.

nbcnews:

Ceremonies mark 67th anniversary of Hiroshima atomic bomb attack

Top Photo: Kimimasa Mayama / EPA
Bottom Photo: Yasuyoshi Chiba / AFP - Getty Images 

Arata Yamamoto, NBC News reports from Tokyo — As dignitaries from 71 countries joined a crowd of 50,000 on Monday to mark the 67th anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bomb attack, Japanese officials vowed to revamp energy policies in the wake of the devastating Fukushima nuclear accident.

Read the complete story.

nbcnews:

Ceremonies mark 67th anniversary of Hiroshima atomic bomb attack

Top Photo: Kimimasa Mayama / EPA
Bottom Photo: Yasuyoshi Chiba / AFP - Getty Images 

Arata Yamamoto, NBC News reports from Tokyo — As dignitaries from 71 countries joined a crowd of 50,000 on Monday to mark the 67th anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bomb attack, Japanese officials vowed to revamp energy policies in the wake of the devastating Fukushima nuclear accident.

Read the complete story.

todaysdocument: Hiroshima At the time this photo was made, smoke billowed 20,000 feet above Hiroshima while smoke from the burst of the first atomic bomb had spread over 10,000 feet on the target at the base of the rising column.Two planes of the …

todaysdocument:

Hiroshima

At the time this photo was made, smoke billowed 20,000 feet above Hiroshima while smoke from the burst of the first atomic bomb had spread over 10,000 feet on the target at the base of the rising column.Two planes of the 509th Composite Group, part of the 313th Wing of the 20th Air Force, participated in this mission, one to carry the bomb, the other to act as escort, 08/06/1945