Notable Quotes

“We actually asked for a great big red button, but they wouldn’t give us one.” — Royal Navy submarine crewmember, on the method for firing cruise missiles.Notable Quotes (BBC) From an article titlled “10 Things We Didn’t Know This Time Last Week“. Similar:Wide-angle view of a villain’s secret lair. #blender3dAestheticsThe Impact of Google on Our MemorySo…

France Bans 'E-Mail'!

“Goodbye ‘e-mail,’ the French government says, and hello ‘courriel’ — the term that linguistically sensitive France is now using to refer to electronic mail in official documents.” —France Bans ‘E-Mail’!  (Wired) What a difference quotation marks can make! And for those of you who are sneering at the silliness of the French, Samantha tells KairosNews…

Woman Changes Her Name To GoVeg.com

“To be named after the number one website for vegetarian information — what could be better?” — GoVeg.com, formerly known as Karin Robertson —Woman Changes Her Name To GoVeg.com (NC Buy) See an earlier entry about the Cool 2B Real Home Page, ( “Sponsored by America’s Beef Producers”). Similar:Furious Trump orders officials to boycott correspondents' dinnerTrump…

Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest 2003

“I’d stumbled onto solving my first murder case, having found myself the only eyewitness, yet no matter how frantically I pleaded with John Law that the perp was right in front of them and the very dame they’d been grilling – the sultry but devious Miss Kitwinkle, who played the grieving patsy the way a…

Real Life: The Full Review

“Socializing is always an option, and as with other online RPGs, real life is certainly at its most rewarding when you manage to find and consort with other like-minded companions. At any rate, it’s hard to fault the game for lack of content or viable activities, and even when certain players try to subvert the…

Sliced-cheese Inventor Dies at 78

“Arnold N. Nawrocki, 78, who made eating processed cheese more convenient for billions of consumers by developing individually wrapped slices, died June 30 in Sun City, Ariz.” Gayle Ronan Sims —Sliced-cheese Inventor Dies at 78Knight-Ridder) He was paid $1 for his patent, which obviously brought his employer barrels of money. Via Blogosphere Daily News. Similar:Schieffer:…

Game Violence

“After reading this, I don’t see how anybody can be concerned about computer game players axing orcs.” Torill Mortensen —Game Violence (Thinking With My Fingers) I’m hoping somebody will jump up and announce that the whole “wimpy guys dress up in camoflage gear and hunt naked women with paintball guns” thing will be exposed as a…

Mozilla Wants to Rumble with IE

“Microsoft’s Internet Explorer might have trounced the likes of Netscape Navigator, but the folks at Mozilla.org insist the browser wars aren’t over.” Amit Asaravala —Mozilla Wants to Rumble with IE (Wired) My weblog developer Will Gayther recently showed me a 1999 Jakob Nielsen article that suggests that by now it is reasonable to expect that most…

1893: More than Fair

“Some claim that games were like this only because that was what the current technology would bear, but I swear that those were still some of the best games ever made, and even today you could make a good one in this genre, which is now old enough to buy alcohol. | Thank heavens someone…

Journalism Organizations & Related Sites

—Journalism Organizations & Related Sites (A Journalist’s Guide to the Internet) An excellent collection of journalism links, compiled by Christopher Callahan. Similar:100 Word ChallengeIt is a weekly creative writing challeng…CultureWhat Can You Do With a Humanities Ph.D., Anyway?Victoria Blodgett, director of Graduate …Academia‘These are all fake news,’ said the honor student. He was wrong.Kim Ash teaches…

Commodore 64 Makes a Comeback

“Tulip is working with Ironstone Partners, which will handle all sales of Commodore 64-related products worldwide and take over the main C64 Web portal. Enthusiasts have made over 10 million game downloads, the site owners have said.|Unauthorized use of the Commodore name by other organizations will be stopped, Tulip said in the statement.” —Commodore 64…

PDF: Unfit for Human Consumption

“Users get lost inside PDF files, which are typically big, linear text blobs that are optimized for print and unpleasant to read and navigate online. PDF is good for printing, but that’s it. Don’t use it for online presentation.” Jakob Nielsen —PDF: Unfit for Human Consumption (UseIT) I’m so conditioned to dislike PDF documents that I…

Bright Is as Bright Does

A comment by dsquared says it best: “I have to say that I too have been waiting for a word to describe the kind of atheist that spends nine hours a day militantly denying the existence of a massive God-shaped hole in his worldview, and ‘bright’ will suit just fine.” —Bright Is as Bright Does (Crooked…