Archive for 'ha!'
Wikipedia is marvelously comic
This strikes me as quintessential Wikipedia. I love that someone thought that a reader interested in the Russian tsar Boris Gudunov (1551-1605) would want to know about a character in the animated cartoon Bullwinkle, and that a moderator would challenge this information with a request for a citation. Wonderful!
A play on the name Boris Gudunov [...]
Posted: January 21st, 2010 under ha!.
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A formalist analysis of the literary genre of the Windows installation plaint; or, an agony in nine fits
Commenter Ajay on the Making Light Forum has deconstructed the genre:
I. Exordium. The narrator introduces himself, establishes his experience in computing (ethos) and exhorts the listeners to gather round.
II. Prolegomenon. Customarily, the hardware spec of the machine is outlined here.
III. Praeinstallatio. The narrator describes his initial attempt to install Windows.
IV. Contrainstallatio. The [...]
Posted: December 18th, 2009 under ha!.
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Breaking news in typography
Right Reading was pleased to receive the following news brief via inter office mail from bittermelon:
Extra-Slanty Italics Introduced for Extremely Important Words
NEW HOPE, MN—In an attempt to address writers’ ever-growing word-emphasis needs, Minnesota-based Pica Foundry has developed a new, extra-slanty italic font, design director Jordan Soderblum announced Monday.
“When writing important words, authors too often bypass [...]
Posted: July 1st, 2009 under ha!, typography.
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The strange passage of time
Ineachday put up some old family photos. Can this blurry fellow really have been me once?
(Yes, this is a rare personal post on Right Reading.)
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Posted: June 16th, 2009 under ha!.
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Amazon apologizes
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via Edward Champion
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Posted: April 15th, 2009 under ha!.
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