About Aaron Nagel:

“Aaron Nagel is a figurative painter living in Oakland CA. Having received no formal training, he is entirely self-taught; a fact at odds with his seemingly classical approach to surrealism. In his current work, he explores specific themes of guilt and power, always associated with his views on the perils of organized religion and theism” (more).

About the “Marks” exhibition:

“Marks is Aaron Nagel’s largest and most cohesive body of work to date. The eleven oil paintings in this series use imagery of youthful women in the nude, often impaled by archery arrows. These figures embody Catholic martyrs such as St. Sebastian, offering atheists and skeptics an alternative to traditional religious symbolism. As Aaron is inspired by the contrast between power and the fragility of the human body, Marks is infused with imagery that is at once calm and violent.” (more)

Visit Aaron’s blog.

“MultiMarkdown is a derivative of John Gruber’s original Markdown project. To learn more, check out What is MultiMarkdown and the rest of the MultiMarkdown User’s Guide.” (read more)

From John Gruber’s blog Daring Fireball :

“Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML).

Thus, “Markdown” is two things: (1) a plain text formatting syntax; and (2) a software tool, written in Perl, that converts the plain text formatting to HTML. See the Syntax page for details pertaining to Markdown’s formatting syntax. You can try it out, right now, using the online Dingus.

The overriding design goal for Markdown’s formatting syntax is to make it as readable as possible. The idea is that a Markdown-formatted document should be publishable as-is, as plain text, without looking like it’s been marked up with tags or formatting instructions. While Markdown’s syntax has been influenced by several existing text-to-HTML filters, the single biggest source of inspiration for Markdown’s syntax is the format of plain text email.” (read more)

I discovered this via kung fu grippe which is Merlin Mann personal weblog.

“Phil Gyford time-tested six different methods of writing the same 221-word passage: pen-and-paper, Newton MessagePad 2100, Palm Vx Graffiti, Palm Treo hardware keyboard, iPhone 3G software keyboard, and a full-size MacBook keyboard.”

About Phil Gyford:

“I am mostly focused on thinking about, designing, programming and running websites. I work freelance and am currently thinking about: how aggregation should work on personal websites; how to learn everything; and improvisation via email.” (read more)