November 2005

Resurrect Your Writing

Jennie Robinson, Digital Web Magazine’s copy chief, writes oh so refreshingly about writing for the web. Web copy is rhetorical—that is, it is meant to affect individual human beings. You’re muttering to yourself, “I know, I know,” but it bears repeating: Know what those people hope for. Do they crave candor, authenticity? Verbose, dressed-up tangents? [...]

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Firefox web browser 1.5 final

Firefox 1.5 is out of beta. Get it now.

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Ig Nobel humour

I’ve heard of the Ig Nobel Awards but have never heard the ceremony. I’ve just listened to Science Friday’s 45 minute podcast: November 25, 2005, Hour One: Ig Nobel Awards Highlights, and would recommend it as a very humorous event. You don’t need to know anything about science, and leave any earnestness at the door. [...]

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Online dating – a gripe

By dating I don’t mean meeting people, but associating a date with something. Did you realize that if you date things in this format: aa/bb/cc it’s almost impossible for readers to actually know what date you intended? Even aa/bb/cccc is only marginally better. I’ve just been cruising through a bunch of blogs where I have [...]

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Testosterone on wheels

The other day I was writing a brief article about tags — the folksonomy kind as found in Flickr and Deli.cio.us and the like. To create an example I searched on the word ‘wheelchair’ and was intrigued by the movie trailer for Murderball, a documentary that appeared among the listings. Today my partner and I [...]

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On knives, Macs and Windows

I enjoy eating food, but have no interest in or enjoyment of growing it, buying it or preparing it. My partner does though, so we recently bought some fancy and expensive new knives. I wasn’t fussed; after all we had knives and they worked, or so I thought. I select a new knife from its [...]

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