Lynne Truss, a British writer and author of Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation gets a taste of her own medicine from Louis Menand of the New Yorker. Menand thoroughly examines her screed against poor grammar and punctuation and finds that it is rife with grammatical and usage errors. It’s a [...]
To describe this film as dishonest and demagogic would almost be to promote those terms to the level of respectability. To describe this film as a piece of crap would be to run the risk of a discourse that would never again rise above the excremental. To describe it as an exercise in facile crowd-pleasing [...]
boingboing reports on a device that records sound by etching a groove into a CD or any other suitable surface much like Edison’s phonograph of old. It’s apparently sold in kit form for about $40. You have to provide your own needle for a stylus and a paper cup for a speaker. Read more here: [...]
The Olsen twins have reached that critical mass where they are nearing utter dominance of supermarket check-out magazine racks and tabloid television. They are the new it girls. Although there are two of them, they exist as a single gignormous entity—one that’s worth several hundred million dollars. There has been much written about our favorite [...]
Or as Prince would say, “the most beautiful girl in the world.” A “panel of experts” named Audrey Hepburn the most naturally beautiful woman of all time. If you had to choose one, she would probably be my choice as well. However, as with all top n lists, especially one compiled by a “panel of [...]
Luke Thanks for meeting me. Julie Well, it’s not like I had any choice—all your phone calls and emails. I had to block you from my buddy list;you were so incessant. Luke Blocked me? I thought you were offline.
I didn’t get to witness this because I was at work. However, it appears that the tie Bush wore during his press conference, a couple of days ago, created a moiré pattern on television so distracting that it was newsworthy.
I’m glad to know I’m not the only one who was a little disturbed at seeing Bob Dylan hawk lingerie in a Victoria’s Secret commercial. Seth Stevenson gives his thoughts on the matter. A link to the commercial is included if you weren’t unfortunate enough to witness it firsthand.
The good news is that Seth MacFarlane will be making new episodes of The Family Guy. The bad news is that the new episodes probably will not be ready until early 2005. Read more at E! Online News.
Hello, Times New Roman. The US State Department has officially banned the use of Courier in favor of Times New Roman—their idea of a “more modern” alternative. Since when was Times New Roman a more modern typeface than Courier? Times New Roman was created by Stanley Morison for Monotype and the Times of London in [...]
