Avoid run-on sentences they are hard to read. Agree, Not Guilty Never use no double negatives. Agree, Not Guilty Use the semicolon properly, always where it is appropriate; and never where it is not. Agree, Not Guilty Reserve the apostrophe for it's proper use and omit it where it is not needed. Partially Agree, Not Guilty Verbs has to agree … Read More
British Guy Thinking About Putting Movie-Like Ratings On Websites
Fat chance of it happening. But just in case, I ran my website through a content-reading thingee, and now I've got my rating already here on the right sidebar.
Weblog Award Finalists Announced
Full list here. It's a good place to go if you want to be exposed to various well-written blogs that you didn't know existed. Yes, Virginia, there are well-written blogs out there. The blogosphere is much much more than political rants and pictures of peoples' kittens doing the gosh-darn cutest things.
Top 10 Lists
GigaOm’s Top 10 Flash Games of 2008 Videogum’s Top 10 Worst People of 2008nbsp; Popular Mechanics’ Top 10 Gadgets of 2008 Politico’s Top 10 Worst Political Ads of 2008 Epicurious’ Top 10 Food Trends of 2009 Spin’s Top 10 Overlooked Albums of 2008 Salon’s Top 10 Books of 2008 Roger Ebert’s Top 10 Foreign Films of 2008 Time’s Top 10 Magazine Covers of 2008 The New Yorker’s Top 10 … Read More
One Of The Nice Things About My Holiday…
…was that I didn't pay attention to the news. This Santa Claus killer? Man, I'm dumbstruck.
Answer: “A Good Beginning”
Question: "What do you call a thousand cats transported by train to Guangdong each day?" GUANGZHOU, China – While animal lovers in Beijing protested the killing of cats for food on Thursday, a butcher in Guangdong province — where felines are the main ingredient in a famous soup — just shrugged her shoulders and wielded her cleaver. "Cats have a … Read More
It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas
On Main Street of my hometown (Concord, NH): Here in NC? Not so much….
Stuff To Think About
Why don't humans have a mating season? Why do the women gymnasts walk around between events with that goofy arm-swing gait? Why are pandas' names doubled? Ling Ling, Tuan Tuan, Yuan Yuan…. Is it just me, or do all national anthems the world over, no matter how rich and exotic the culture, seem to sound like European marching-band music? Wouldn't … Read More
Burger King Cologne
No, I'm not kidding. How about it ladies? Do you find the smell of a Whopper seductive? Actually, the product claims to give one "the scent of seduction, with a hint of flame-broiled meat."
One Hell Of A Cold Front
Map says it all. Look, for exampl, at the difference between southwest Illinois (16 degrees), and Nashville (42 degrees) — only a couple hundred miles apart.
