Archive for category: Asides

‘War Horse’ puppet creators: We understand repression    (2011.09.20)

(Adrien Kohler and) Basil Jones: “As gay people, we understand prejudice and, as South Africans, we understand prejudice”

The browser Find command    (2011.09.18)

“90%+” of people do not know how to search for text in their browsers. OK: Are we talking Windoids only here?

Ten things wrong with the Twitters    (2011.09.15)

According to Baldur Bjarnasson

Bodhi    (2011.09.11)

Meg Hourihan badly mishandled her posting about the last days of her beloved cat.

Whose code is worse – Muse’s, WordPress’s, Tumblr’s?    (2011.09.08)

It’s no contest: Tumblr’s

‘Fantastic’ bureau    (2011.09.08)

What the offices of FANTASTIC MAN (and, presumably, Butt) look like

Minimalist movie posters    (2011.09.07)

Why else are there so many minimalist film posters? They work great in online thumbnails

Poppers    (2011.09.05)

“Do you know how shady a thing has to be before it is written about evasively on the Internet‽”

Wardriving, swede, keming    (2011.09.01)

Neologisms coined even though the activities they define never happen(ed)