What does Arsenic and Old Lace have in common with Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle? They're both examples of Kurt Vonnegut's "Man in Hole" story shape, according to a Nieman Storyboard post. The Slaughterhouse-Five author developed his story-shapes model as a master's thesis at the University of Chicago, but it was rejected. It later found new life in a YouTube video and the Nieman post includes interpretations in both text and graphic form.

Your Facebook posts might be set to "friends only" and your Twitter feed may be protected, but what about your LinkedIn activity? Martin Brinkmann has some tips for LinkedIn privacy: "When you make modifications to your profile, follow a company or make recommendations, you will find them listed on your activity feed by default. The fact that you are looking for a job may be revealed on your activity feed for instance, which can cause issues" with your current employer.

It's not "Join the conversation" or "Like us on Facebook" or even "Forgot your password?" but another common expression that sums up the Internet experience, Matthew J.X. Malady writes in the New Republic: "If 'Your an idiot!' doesn't ring a bell, then you probably don't use the Internet all that much. (Also: You should count yourself as lucky and be sure to proceed through the remainder of your life exactly as you have up to this point.) You, my friend, are no idiot."

Leaving Berkeley for New York after college, Joan Didion took a job writing captions at the fashion journal. Maria Popova quotes her about the routine there: "At Vogue one learned fast, or one did not stay, how to play games with words, how to put a couple of unwieldy dependent clauses through the typewriter and roll them out transformed into one simple sentence composed of precisely thirty-nine characters. We were connoisseurs of synonyms. We were collectors of verbs."