Month: September 2003

Get over it

Stylin’ & Smilin’ insists we continue to replace “over” with “more than.” I still do it reflexively, out of loyalty to my favorite professors or something, but I think this battle is lost. “Over” was come to mean “more than”…

Small world dept.

Side Salad on Tampa’s Press Box. Simply the best place on earth to watch the Final Four and live for the day by consuming things that take years off your life.

Bunch of links on the California recall

At Journalism.org. An update: wouldn’t you know that there’d be actual news on the one day I linked to a site that hasn’t been updated in a week.

Mario Garcia on why newspapers change

And why a redesign was imposed on the good people of Miami. (Link via the Journalism Blog)Here’s the Herald’s guide to the redesign.

Tech at its finest

So I click on this link at Editor and Publisher about the Denver Post’s new web site (more like a newspaper, they say), then I click on the link for the actual site and it won’t load. And I wonder:…

Missiles and gasoline

Sure, it’s guy talk, but there’s an interesting thread about both at testycopyeditors.com

Maud’s grandma’s favorite sayings

These are pretty darn funny. I got great laughts on the metro desk on night when I mentioned that one of my grandma’s favorite sayings was, “stirrin’ up shit just makes it smell worse.”

Where you came from

My old blogs at http://tom.mangan.com/ and http://tom.mangan.com/printsthechaff will remain posted indefinitely, so don’t worry about having missed anything. Of course all those links will be out of date in a week, but what’s the Web without a few dead links,…