Reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (now that everyone else is done with it), I couldn’t help but notice a few double entendres and wondering if they were deliberate. Perhaps I am just encumbered by the foreknowledge that this fantasy has fathered flotillas of filthy fanfic, or by knowing that J.K. Rowling is doubtlessly [...]
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At the comics font site Blambot, Nate Piekos has a fascinating article on Comics Grammar and Tradition, detailing the conventions of comics lettering. Of personal interest to me, because comics is how I learned to read and write English. Which would explain why, for example, I kept writing in ALL CAPS for a long time…
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YouTube - Push - Trailer (2009).
[via Lucius Sheppard]:
Push is Jumper with telekinesis, If you saw Jumper you know this is not a affirmative statement. It’s a movie full of quick cuts, special effects, and young lads with exciting haircuts…and that’s about it.
Some cool superpower usage here, though.
Let’s get some things straight before I get old and uncool: 1001 rules for my unborn son, a tumblelog
Or as it happened, both Dotan and I wrote the same plug-in the same day. After wordpress 2.7 came out, the normal way to modify the TINYMCE buttons was deprecated and after postponing this as much as I can, I found the the only way to configure tinyMCE for its already made buttons - with [...]
So I got a bit fed up with the Vlad Taltos books because of how roleplaying-ish they felt. I mean, Bo would consider this a virtue, for example when the protagonist displays ingenuity that points to him having a cunning player behind him, but I found it irritating when said player(s) seem to work their [...]
Read at Work - This is rather awesome: Flash in the service of literature and procrastrination.
Read at Work - This is rather awesome: Flash in the service of literature and procrastrination.
Here’s a simple (trivial, in fact) plugin for Wordpress that adds a button to the visual editor for setting the text direction of a paragraph.