I’ve noticed a lot of impressions of this Flash web ad for a well known bank: Obviously they are trying to reassure their customers: “Emigration is a stressful process; let us relieve you of some of that stress.” What caught my eye was the choice of graphic. The airliner sweeping in to land is clearly…
Read More Interpreting advertisementsI tend to use footnotes for article attribution and stuff like that, and realized that there must be an easier way than banging out the HTML markup by hand. ((Of course muscle memory does most of the work.)) So I’ve just installed Simon Elvery’s footnotes 0.9 plugin, and this post is intended to check it…
Read More Just a little test of a new WP pluginWhat it’s like to be an atheist in America, I mean. [Via the Barefoot Bum.]
Read More A Christian starts to get itWhile reading a piece by Stephen Law on Clarity, continental philosophy, and bullshit, I came across this delightfully succinct analysis by Larry Hamelin: Your friend is dancing the Postmodern Twist, so beloved by such as Camille Paglia. Step 1: Invert the narrative and deny the implicit privilege of the original frame (legitimate enough) Step 2:…
Read More Doing the postmodern twistSpent yesterday evening at the Montlake Ale House, where I met up with Jon and Laura. We were there to hear Mudcat, the band in which my friend Eve Maler plays. I had a very good time, kicking back to… well, I guess the current term for the style is “roots rock”, but to me…
Read More MudcattingEvolution in photographs. Breathtaking. [From a Long Now seminar by Frans Lanting – thanks, Adrian.]
Read More LifeThis reminds me: I really need to buy myself an emergency kit – something like this.
Read More Shaken upJust when I think I’ve got my blog looking the way I want it, along comes a compelling alternative: a WordPress theme that looks like “a command-line driven Commodore 64 interface”. I wonder if someone could build a Q*Bert widget to sit in the sidebar….
Read More The medium is the messageWhat Jon said. But first, after watching Chelsea v Bolton (what a nail-biting match, with the scores coming in from Everton v ManU every few minutes), I need to catch up on a few chores… and maybe watch a little of the Middlesbrough v Tottenham match. And I want to finish the latest New Yorker,…
Read More A Very Linky DayDo I blog like a man.. or a woman? Check out The Gender Genie. I tried it with some of the longer passages from my blog, and while most score strongly male there are one or two which are unambiguously identified as female. Hmmmm. [Via Andy.]
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