Severely compromising functionality
A cute style guide for technical writers. After brief lessons in style, grammar, and technical terms, it attempts (only partly...
Billy Ray who?
My co-workers had another of their semiannual-or-so karaoke nights last night, and it reminded me of what happened the one...
Everybody’s doing it
I mentioned the other day that Salon is moving to a subscription model; what I didn't know when I wrote...
You may be in violation
According to Magnum-Opus, prolific composers Dr.Sonique and Jon Drummond wrote an enormous number of very brief diatonic "melody modules" back...
Genus, species, and serial number
I meant to mention this morning that apparently there's a new academic controversy in the world of biological taxonomy. There's...
Marriage
Somehow I missed this (or else I've just forgotten I knew about it): there was a Gallup poll recently which...
Visor massage
Hee hee. Tired out from a long day of using your PDA? Now there's a Springboard module for the Visor...
Multilingual again
Completely unrelated to the previous entry, Susan G. pointed me to the "I Can Eat Glass Project" page, which explains...
Multilingual
One of the cool things about internationalizing a piece of software (making it so that its interface can be easily...
Games Without Frontiers
Peter Gabriel's "Games Without Frontiers" came on while I was listening to Launchcast, and I thought, What exactly is the...
Unclaimed Baggage
I can't tell whether this is for real or not, but it's a cute idea: Unclaimed Baggage, which claims to...
My mistake
Looks like I blew it on the $43 million US aid to Afghanistan thing. Dan Kennedy of the Boston Phoenix...