Well, it does say *his* sequel...

There's a number of good examples here that bother me, but a relatively recent one, which arguably isn't grammatical, is the usage of 'way' as a modifier, as in 'way colder' or 'way faster'. Doesn't bother me particularly in conversation, but more and more news articles are using it. Immediately lowers the…

Huh

What's sorta funny is this article effectively repeats itself and could be easily half the length. I'm going to assume it was a very clever joke for very clever people. The basic rule is since the internet, everyone who sends messages needs to learn the skill of editing. It's what copy editors are for, now we all need…

This sorta looks like a load. The inference (oh, and driving force behind making grabbing a banana the equivalent of removing a nuclear rod from an active core) is that the exposure of the stem to oxygen is letting 'bad' air into 'good' banana. Meh. Another 'banana myth' (see 'freely available psychoactive drugs' ).…

It's here on transformer prime. So, missing in one person's app on one device means the OS is missing a month? Knee jerk *cough*...

Brian Eno had a great analogy a year or so ago comparing the music business the whaling. Essentially, it's mistaken to believe that music publishing should be a motherlode of cash, and that you simply need to switch from big music publisher to independent inet distribution. The music biz being such a huge juggernaut…

You know, that is in strict violation of the terms of 'sale'. I'm not judging you in the slightest, and perhaps this isn't your real name, but I hope you're aware you and anyone else here that 'me too's is publicly announcing you've broken your contract with Amazon/Apple willingly. Doing this on a thread about someone…

I prefer to think of myself as Elmer FUD.

I'm less disturbed by the obvious schadenfreude angle of the story than by the horrible writing. Do you guys write this stuff in one burst at 4am then just hit enter? Just in terms of trying to be somewhat professional, you might want to have at least one other person with 'editor' in their job description to do a…

My Dazed and Confused era apocryphal story that made the rounds was that if you stuck a piece of Juicy Fruit gum(it HAD to be JF) under a single peel, then closed up the peel back onto the banana and let it rot like hell for a few weeks, pulled out the gum, scraped it off, chew and ZOOM. Somehow, nobody I knew…

In the same boat. Every show requires a degree of suspension of disbelief, but by 6 shows in we were fed up saying "oh, come ON" and walked away. I'm a little surprised so many people that enjoy solid suspense shows like Homeland can put up with nonsense like cell phones capturing crystal clear conversations when…

I appreciate some aspects of it, but I'm not a huge fan either. I think you had to be the right age when it came out. Like most of Opie's movies, it's pretty damned mainstream. It's very aware of itself, the cast appears to be constantly winking through their performances, but they *know* it. The cast are a group…

Absolutely, agreed. Even the corset scenario could be tweaked up to anorexia, obsession with visual acceptance. I find that site more interesting in that it shows how *little* human nature (and the randomness of nature) have changed.

FWIW, Scrivener has full screen typewriter style writing without the single word gimmick (and I definitely consider that a gimmick), is crazy flexible in terms of how you use it, and is not only available on mac but has a windows port and a version they even release for Linux (which I'm unsure has full support but the…

Worn a watch my whole life and felt naked without it, then stopped a year ago. I rarely miss it, I enjoy not having something strapped to my arm. Re:the inconvenience factor of whipping out a phone, true, but if you spend much of your time in some sort of urban environment, I've found it rarer and rarer that there's…

Yeah, if tech made me anxious, I'd put it down. Was just reflecting yesterday on the incredible convenience it brings to day to day life as I was uploading some personal business data to the cloud, and remembering when that would have been a scrap of paper I had to be careful not to lose. Instead of lugging newspapers…