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It’s been something of an odd week here in yetilandia. That Tricks Of The Trade article<\/a> I had in the Morning News went Internet Supernova, occupying the #1 spot on both Blogdex<\/a> and Daypop<\/a> for most of the week and receiving mention on usatoday.com, Metafilter, Boing Boing, Waxy and Kottke. All this for an article that I told my Morning News editor that I’d happily to scrap if he, like me, thought that “no one else would really be interested in this.”<\/p>\n

The strangest moment came while listening to the nationally broadcast NPR program “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me” and hearing Dr. Ruth Westheimer get quizzed on the article I wrote. (Yes, this really happened, and you can hear it on their website<\/a>.) Surrealismwise, that’s gonna be a hard one to top.<\/p>\n

Anyway, since then I’ve been trying to figure out what to do with the hundreds of great Trade Tricks I received that didn’t get used in the article. Just compiling them into a single, massive text file somewhere was an option, but I didn’t think that would really do them justice. Plus, I haven’t really had the time to edit, sort and format 300 entries in the last few days. But tackling one entry a day — ah, now that’s<\/em> a project I can handle. So, I’ll be posting the remaining submissions over at tradetricks.org<\/a>, in handy blog-format.<\/p>\n

Also, several people wrote to suggest that I turn the who kit ‘n’ caboodle into small book, and I think I might take a stab at that. So I’m now asking for more<\/em> Tricks of the Trade. If you have one that you’d like to contribute, head on over here<\/a>. Even better, get your spouse or partner to send one in — a lot of my visitors have similar profession, but I figure if I can get entries from folks who are one step removed from my readership, I should wind up with a huge cross-section of occupations.<\/p>\n

Finally, foremost, and again, thanks to everyone who responded to my original call for Trade Tricks — I really appreciate it. (Also, if you submitted something for the article but object to my using it on the new website or in this we’ll-see-if-it-actually-happens book, please let me know.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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