I was starting to feel like Milton from Office Space, the character who walks around mumbling, "I... I... I could set the building on fire." Ten years in advertising can do that to you. Finally, one ordinary February day in Chicago, I came home and told my wife I was fantasizing about smuggling an automatic weapon into work. We split a bottle of wine and discussed options that didn't involve jail time. By the end of the night, I'd decided to quit.

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Writing Tools is a must-read blog for any writer striving to write better (Ahem, that means all of us!). Produced by author, teacher and scholar Roy Peter Clark (read our interview here), it covers a wide range of writing-related topics. Roy's posts typically feature great examples of the writing he's talking about, like this entry on mastering the long sentence.

The Visual Thesaurus team is very pleased to announce an exciting new feature: Wordlists! You can use these interactive lists to learn, share and -- most of all -- have fun. How do you get started? It's easy.  Continue reading...

This month in the Lounge we take three trips without leaving the farm, thereby making our small contribution to reducing modern travel's huge carbon footprint.  Continue reading...