I’ve never done grammer good, but particularly online, one thing that always gets under my skin is the plague of apostrophe overuse. This wikiHow on apostrophes is worth a read — it even covers those tough cases, like plural, possessive names:
Place an apostrophe after the “s” when you are indicating a singular […]
The AACS crack story, not itself substantively interesting, does have pretty fascinating societal undertones. The free speech flag, nothing more than a pure isomorphism of a big ass number, perfectly encodes the now famous encryption key into colors. Is this infringement? If so, how so? Can you even copyright a number; a fact?
For as long as I can remember, the houses — the materials — of suburbia have rubbed me the wrong way. I’ve never taken kindly to the concrete castles that keep popping up like weeds. I’ve just never understood why people are so hung up on size they forgo such things as natural materials and […]
Absolutely mesmorizing!
I’m shocked, utterly stunned to learn this:
Telephia’s Total Communications Survey for Q4 2006 shows that 49% of households moving during the fourth quarter of 2006 migrated away from a traditional telephone line with 25% choosing to go wireless only.
I haven’t had a landline in years (since backing into one in college when Verizon wouldn’t let […]
I just learned of the push for POSH over at Standardzilla — short for Plain Old Semantic HTML. Why the hell do we need another idiomatic acronym clogging web2.0’s tubes? I certainly agree microformats are the future, but why go with something that sounds even more ridiculous than AJAX? What we need are more entertaining […]
“Obscenity is the crutch of the inarticulate motherfucker.” - cloak42
Interesting take from Hugh Macleod of gapingvoid…
As we move from proprietary to open worlds, we are seeing another transition. The customer is becoming the partner. And not a day too soon.
He’s got a tough road ahead of him, and good luck to him. Let’s hope this kind of fresh perspective can rub off on his […]
Best. Website. Ever.
I laughed. I cried. I lament not having a digital camera to try and roll my own spin on such a creative idea.
[via SvN]
…with WordPress!
It’s only been a day, give or take, but I think it’s the real deal. Granted, I’ve had a tendency in the past to fall too fast for my CMS choices only to be heartbroken by their deficiencies later…
But this time, I think it’s for real <3