Recently I got an email from a trusted friend who undoubtedly sent it with the greatest intentions. According to the email “Bill Gates and AOL are teaming up” the email said “to test a new beta email tracking program, but they need your help. Simply forward this on to everyone in your address book and [...]
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Monthly Archives: May 2004
May 21
Player Pianos and .MP3's
Via ZDNet Australia… What do .MP3′s and Player Piano’s have in common? They’re both ways to play copies of music, right? But, under an 1899 (no, that’s not a typo) case ruling, player piano rolls don’t violate the copyright of sheet music, even though they reproduce the outcome thereof: the music. “Sharman License Holdings may [...]
May 19
How many spaces after a period?
Via Stuart Celarier who calligraphy and paleography in college and spent quite a bit of time with typography and type design. According to Robert Bringhurst’s The Elements of Typographic Style, version 2.4 (Hartley & Marks, Publishers, 1992, 1996, 2001), page 28: 2.1.4 Use a single word space between sentences. In the nineteenth century, which was a [...]
May 13
Decapitation?!
Via the WorldNet Daily News, an 26 year old American contractor, Nick Berg, was killed by beheading in Iraq recently. The video taped execution included a segment where Mr. Berg addressed the camera: “My name is Nick Berg, my father’s name is Michael, my mother’s name is Susan,” the man said on the video. “I have a [...]
May 10
Cutting the cord
Well, we’ve offically cut the Qwest Communications cord. What a liberating feeling! Don’t get me wrong, I don’t have specific animosity towards Qwest, I just disagree with monopolies, even natural or regulated ones. Life is about choices, and being hard-wired into one provider isn’t much of a choice. Case in point: I wanted to try [...]
