Save the Semicolon

Recently, the tech comm team at my company decided to create a style guide for our screen shots. Everything was up for grabs. Should we go with 4 pixel black borders? What about 2 pixel gray ones? Should we use drop shadows? What size? Now, I’m perfectly happy with whatever decisions are made, as long [...]

Kottke.org points us to the front page of the print edition of The Independent. As he says, you could list the countries in much less space. But this image sure leaves an impression. Note that I’m not talking about politics in this post. Just about a striking way to present information.

Apparently reported by Eric Chaikin on the National Puzzlers’ League mailing list (but I found it in Salon.com’s “Table Talk”): In the February 17th, 2006 issue of Entertainment Weekly, a blurb on p. 22 about director Werner Herzog contains the sentence: “Then on Jan. 26, Her[zog happened by Joaquin Phoenix's car wreck and pulled the [...]