March 2009
11 posts
Oh Roy...
The Culture of Ownership » Authors Guild, unbelievably, still after Kindle 2
Maybe it was because I was busy, and then sick, that it took me so long to connect the Roy Blount of the Author’s Guild and their recent idiocy regarding text-to-speach to the guy who writes funny and interesting stories and articles (and is a regular on Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!).
Every so often...
Accessibility to the Face →
This is hands down the best essay on accessibility I have ever read. Just like curbcuts, accessibility is to the benefit of everyone. As the author points out “Accessibility is about usability.”
As a related aside, Windows got one part of accessibility — keyboard navigation — right from day one (more than 20 years ago) that Apple still has issues with. It...
Things sneak up on you
Things sneak up on you when your hands don’t feel like your hands and you do your best not to think — as you try and sew a button — this used to be so easy
“I worked briefly with Belinda Carlisle many years back, playing the keyboards on...”
– Thomas Dolby and really who can blame him…
“I minored in evil mastermind in college”
Flying Rodents... →
I cannot express the joy this image brings each time I see it…
Biblical Proportions: Ape →
Ape: An animal of the monkey tribe
Um what now? “Monkey Tribe?” I don’t know who wrote this, but they need to understand that being an ape is not a lifestyle choice. It isn’t like there was one big monkey family (hopefully whorshiping a giant golden monkey god, and then one day a group decided to cut off their tails, inject steroids, and said “see ya...