Background: Dan Savage spoke at the National High School Journalist Conference in Seattle this month, and called hypocrisy in the Catholic religion “bullshit”. To nobody’s surprise, Catholics take offence at this. What struck me most about this story when I read about it this morning was that it was a journalism conference. It was called [...]
John Gruber, regarding the swipe-upward gesture to access the iPhone camera from the lock screen: But if you do just tap on it, which is an obvious thing to try, you get a clever hint: the lock screen playfully jumps and bounces, suggesting visually that you can slide it upward. I noticed this too. When [...]
Bought this in Limerick today — fascinating book. Forgot how funny ATMs were in Irish. Spanish Exchange, March 2012. Saw Barcelona, which is a lovely city.
“…Organised religion is quite another thing. The trouble is that all too often in human history, churches and priesthoods have set themselves up to rule people’s lives in the name of some invisible god (and they’re all invisible, because they don’t exist) – and done terrible damage. In the name of their god, they have [...]
I assume everyone already learned to remember stats as phone numbers but I just discovered it. The number you require for the number of agrarian agitations from 1877 to 1881 is: 236 4439. (There were 236 incidents in 1877, up to 4,439 in 1881.)
gracecar.tumblr.com: This was on the elevator wall in my dorm haha. Oh NYU
This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writing is getting boring. The sound of it drones. It’s like a stuck record. The ear demands some variety. Now listen. I vary the sentence length, and I create music. [...]
I recently upgraded to an iPhone 4S, and what immediately strikes you is how good the camera quality is: I’d wager that for a budget of ~ €500, the iPhone 4S is one of the best cameras you can buy. The photo itself is the interior of the restaurant in the George Hotel, on the [...]