I love meaningless marketing copy, don’t you? This one, an actual example found in the wild, came to me via email today. I think I’ll adopt it as the tagline around here, after I tire of “quality web distration since 2000.” Don’t you think claiming that Wheatdesign.com “simplifies the orchestration of web [...]
Posts have been very scant for the past few weeks because I’ve been in the process of buying a house and moving in. I’ve rented all of my adult life, so this is a big and welcome step. Now I’ll no doubt be blogging the ups and downs of first-time home ownership, but [...]
Okay, it’s not quite a Haiku, but you have to admit this bit of nonsense text, from a spam email this morning, does have some Haiku-ish economy and poetic flair:
make some changes to your style
whether u like omega or breitlng
we have the brand for u
I’m assuming they meant to say Breitling in line three. [...]
Fun from Untitled States (from one of the people behind Brunching Shuttlecocks:
I don’t follow sports, but Slacktivist has uses a current even in sport to make a more important point about the meaning of the word “unprofessional“. And I could hardly agree more (and many of you will to, I should think).
I chew my nails. More than that, I chew my cuticles. I chew up and down the sides of my thumbs. If I could reach them, I’d probably chew my elbows. Perhaps it’s a very minor obsession, but it has a logic to it. When I’m not doing anything else, [...]
Google’s latest offering, Google Print lets you find books relevant to your work by searching through their indexed contents. This doesn’t mean you can read the full text of them online, but it does mean you can find references to topics which interest you. Handy, for sure. I remember reading about this [...]
The time has come to part with the Hyundai. It’s a 1999 Elantra with most of the extras they offered that year. I recently bought a new car, so I’m willing to part with this one. If you need a decent used car (I’m the original owner and I’ve taken care of [...]