Month: January 2004

Put your proofing skills to work

Sheila Lennon posted this notice on her blog: Is there a copy editor lurking inside you? You might want to help the all-volunteer Distributed Proofreaders put more free texts online for Project Gutenberg: The first step to take to help…

Memorize this

From a Washington Post story last month about the guy who took on Apple when his Ipod’s battery died: Like a doctor with zero bedside manner, Ryan pretty quickly gets to the point: Since Neistat’s iPod is past the year-long…

Year of the gadget

OK, so within 24 hours of placing my order for my new Mac laptop, I learn of two people who also bought new Mac laptops. And yesterday I’m at work and I notice one of the guys on the National…

Sorry for the dearth o’ posts

I’ve been busy buying a bunch of new toys (Mac iBook laptop, Canon A70 digicam), but I do have a couple links of note: Hiawatha Bray of the Boston Globe has a nice piece on the promise & peril of…

‘Rock is dead they say’

Or, well, rock criticism is. I’d suggest the real problem isn’t our obsession with celebrities, it’s our obsession with the notion that things were better in the good old days.

Best blogs of 2003

I know, 2003 is so last year, but listmeister Fimoculous has tossed together a nice list of savvy blogs worth checking out if you haven’t already. Speaking of the Fimo-dude, he inspired a mighty fine “best of” list over at…