Archive for June, 2008
Homosexual eases into 100 final at Olympic trials
Ed Brayton via Tom Kirkendall notes that American Family Association has a policy at its new outlet, OneNewsNow, never to use the word “gay” but to replace it with “homosexual” - which is all well and good until someone named Tyson Gay turns in a record time in the US Olympic qualifying rounds. The result […]
Study Finds Most Children Not In Favor Of Children’s Healthcare
Video from the Onion News Network. Classic.
Big Bad John, Cornyn That Is
Jumpin jehosaphats, Cornyn, don’t you have focus groups to kill things like this?
Cardboarding, like Snowboarding, but without Snow or Excitement
This Houstonist post brought back fond memories. Since my elementary school had a giant hill behind the playground cardboarding was a frequent pastime in the spring and fall, as was sledding in the winter. How we didn’t break our little faces I’ll never know.
I’m a sucker for a girl with a loop machine…
Theresa Andersson - ‘Na Na Na’
Just the footwork alone is impressive… you know, in addition to everything else.
High Marks for Teach for America
From the Wall Street Journal’s Amazing Teacher Facts -
Eleven per cent of Yale’s senior class, 9% of Harvard’s and 10% of Georgetown’s applied for a job whose salary ranges from $25,000 (in rural South Dakota) to $44,000 (in New York City).
Hang on a second.
Unions keep saying the best people won’t go into teaching unless […]
Table of Contents
Why do I love Design Observer? Because not only will they write a scholarly article about it, they will have a full-on conference about Tables of Contents.
Library in the New Age and the Pedigree of Information
Robert Darnton’s piece in the New York Review of Books, The Library in the New Age, is a fascinating look, seasoned by experience, of the life of information. This was not the main thrust, but it’s my favorite part -
I used to be a newspaper reporter myself. I got my basic training as a […]
Oklahoma Full Auto Shoot and Trade Show
Sometimes I am reminded that I have family from Oklahoma and I get scared.
From the Oklahoma Full Auto Shootout, via BoingBoing
Fontstruct brings DIY fontography to the unwashed masses
Jason Fagone’s oddly intimate revelation of font-nerdery in Slate’s YouType: The strange allure of making your own fonts highlights Fontstruct, “YouTube of typography” which allows you to… well, make your own fonts. It lead Fagone to wax nostaligic for his bootleg Fontographer days:
I was a minuscule part of the great grunge-font craze of the late […]