February 2008
“In gay slang, a beard is a companion of the opposite sex used to hide a...”
– [ Alternate definition of beard, from Wikipedia ]
“Marriage isn’t a passion-fest; it’s more like a partnership formed to run a very...”
– [ Marry Him!, in the Atlantic Online ]
“Like”, as in “I like using Pantone 021″ should be scrubbed from our collective...”
– [ Fuck Style, from Ideas ] While I don’t really care for the extreme tone of the article, it’s true that I am never swayed by someone saying they “like” this or that a thing and in fact get irritated when it’s overused.
“The most common way to get usability wrong is to listen to what users say rather...”
– [ Top-10 Application-Design Mistakes from Jakob Nielson ]
“Ben “Finn” Finnegan is an affable, modern-day treasure hunter who is...”
– [ summary of Fool’s Gold from Metacritic ] Possibly the best, most descriptive movie summary ever. “Roguish charm,” hee hee.
“With women, you could argue that adulthood is in fact emergent. Single women in...”
– [ Child-Man in the Promised Land, from the City Journal ] This is about the dumbest article I have ever read. Shopping is not more mature than playing video games, and if men aren’t settling down and having kids, well, neither are women.
“‘I would never do anything like a reality show with any of my...”
– [ Being Rachel Zoe, in the New York Times ]
““The truth is, it’s like ‘West Side Story,’ we all know where each other’s...”
– [ The Story Behind a Late-Night Brawl, in the New York Times ]
“In a rally at the Montgomery Bell Academy, a high school in Nashville, Mr....”
– [ Campaigning Is Furious on Final Weekend Before Big Vote, from the New York Times ] Bored now.
