Day: January 14, 2011
Two Spaces After A Period. (I am in the guilty-camp, just FYI)
Space Invaders
Why you should never, ever use two spaces after a period.
Posted Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011, at 6:20 PM ET
Last month, Gawker published a series of messages that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange had once written to a 19-year-old girl he’d become infatuated with. Gawker called the e-mails “creepy,” “lovesick,” and “stalkery”; I’d add overwrought, self-important, and dorky. (“Our intimacy seems like the memory of a strange dream to me,” went a typical line.) Still, given all we’ve heard about Assange’s puffed-up personality, the substance of his e-mail was pretty unsurprising. What really surprised me was his typography.
via slate.com
Rage Against The Machine
Tunisia’s Spark, Ctd
With Mohammed Bouazizi’s self-immolation bound for the history books, The Daily What features another famous suicide in a new light:
Redditor mygrapefruit spent what I can only imagine was a considerable amount of time colorizing Malcolm Browne’s iconic photo of Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức protesting the persecution of Buddhists by the American-backed government of Ngô Đình Diệm through the act of self-immolation (better known to many as the Rage Against the Machine debut album cover).
Original black-and-white version here.
Marking Time
Come, January / Begin with new beginnings / And a calendar!
Note on picture above: Calendar from Australia that hangs in my kitchen, and comes to me every January from my sweet mother-in-law who lives there.
