November 2008
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“Okay, so. Previously on As the Vampire Sparkles, emoteen Bella Swan moves to a...”
– [ Occupation: Girl - Breaking Dawn, Book One ]
omg lulz
(It’s really nice to find out that my SUDDEN, unexpected, canbecountedinhoursBUTSTILLHUGE obsession with Twilight has affected more than one person on the internets. Everybody seems to have the same reaction: some variation on...
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“The Q Score is a way to measure the familiarity and appeal of a brand, company,...”
– [ Q Score, via Wikipedia ]
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“Still, such blunders are rare, and Ms. Jolie’s Q score, a measurement of a...”
– [ Angelina Jolie’s Carefully Orchestrated Image, in the New York Times ]
I didn’t know about this Q score thing—will have to go investigate.
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“President-elect Obama is meeting every day with his transition team, or in...”
– Stephen Colbert
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“Almost every city has a Tenderloin District—I mean, the North Beach in San...”
– Bill O’Reilly on San Francisco.
Exactly, Bill Reilly. Exactly.
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“Scientists are talking for the first time about the old idea of resurrecting...”
– [ Regenerating a Mammoth for $10 Million
Noooooooooooooooooooo! We tried this with the dinosaurs! Will no one pay attention to the lessons of chaos theory?
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“Last year, a team of researchers at Harvard made headlines with an experiment...”
– [ Researchers Disagree on Accuracy of Well-Known Bias Test, in the New York Times ]
I’m confused by this. African-Americans have a higher rate of heart disease and high blood pressure than white Americans, so why is immediately treating them for a problem they have a higher percentage of...
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“Structurally, certain aspects of Watchmen deviated from the norm in comic books...”
– [ on the layouts in The Watchmen, in Wikipedia ]
Interesting. The pace of the graphic novel does indeed feel very stately and slow, but I never thought to attribute that to the page layout. I love that such a refined choice has such a big effect on way I read the story—it’s like incidental...
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“Kenny Rogers, a data security specialist, moved into Mountain House last year,...”
– [ A Town Drowns in Debt as Home Values Plunge, in the New York Times ]
This story is ostensibly about people Making Do in Hard Times. But this paragraph is about a dude with incredibly expensive hobbies (scuba diving and flying? seriously?) and some overspending problems (fifty DVDs a month?...
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“Blogging has entered the mainstream, which—as with every new medium in...”
– [ Blogging grows up: Oh, grow up, in The Economist ]
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Obama 08!, or (inline) style versus class
If you’re like me, you’re always interested in other people’s markup, and it’s especially fun to see how the big news sites choose to style major announcements. Sure, most of them have clunky, hard-to-customize CMSs, and everybody uses inline styling sometimes (myself included!) but we can still take a cold hard look at how the sites rated in terms of best practices during...
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“The debates unnerved both candidates. When he was preparing for them during the...”
– [ Highlights: Newsweek’s Special Election Project | Newsweek Politics: Campaign 2008, in Newsweek ]
I’d like to go get a beer with that man.
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“We’d note in particular that Mr. Obama ran as a tax-cutter for “95%...”
– [ President-Elect Obama, in the Wall Street Journal ]
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“[T]elevision clips showing George W. Bush entering and exiting the rear doors of...”
– [ All about the President’s vehicles in Presidential Power on the Road, from the New York Times ]
Cool. 