Typorgrapher.org dishes it out to NTT DoCoMo like NTT DoCoMo’s blocking the way to the tacqueria:
So, it appears our brand specialist has been drinking one too many Châteauneuf-du-Pape and has gone into a drunken overdrive during a meeting with DoCoMo… oh, sorry, I meant docomo:
“The new logo’s color is red, which symbolizes the company’s energy and dynamism.”
Oh really now!
Some great snarking follows.
So, I watched some of Town Meeting from the balcony last night, and I learned something interesting: If you squint a bit, you can see which TMMs are reading comics.
(awesome image lazily lifted from Sam Hiti’s website without permission - hopefully it’s OK. Buy some of his stuff - I did!)
I’m so sick of books, movies, whatever, with titles of this format. Maybe I should write a book, and title it Gerund Noun.
A phone call to the ancestral Archenemy Manor:
Archenemy: Mom, I’ve got to run out of town for a few hours and was thinking I’d leave the dog with you guys… I know you won’t be around, but could you ask Dad if he’ll be there?
Archenemy Mom: Not right now…
(strange background noises)
Archenemy: Er… what’s going on?
Archenemy Mom: He’s fighting with all seven of our dinner guests about global warming.
Ah, Massachusetts.
(h/t)
Wow.
Good news for Archenemy Field Correspondent Stumpy McGimp*, for sure. When this tech is good enough for bone therapy, he’ll be the happiest (still super-clumsy) jock-again in the world.
* not to be confused with also-gimpy Archenemy Couch Correspondent
These songs are the record of our speculative forays into the dreamspace which has grown up in the cracks between the social myth of the Heroic partisans and the ugly reality of the war; in mapping that territory, it was not our intention to pursue any specific political agenda or champion any particular group or concern. The history of the Soviet partisans in the Great Patriotic War, like most war stories, is complex and often contradictory. We believe that it is vitally important, at these intersections of heroism and atrocity, to retain that complexity and resist the reductive impulse which impoverishes our myths and denies the varied humanity of the men and women on all sides of the conflict. These songs seek neither to glorify nor to condemn, and while they do not have anything so crude as a “message,” we hope that they do contain some echo of truth.
Great stuff.
The dustbin of history is waiting. Don’t keep it waiting too long, eh?
So, we’re back, and re-created as part of our host’s one-click install/upgrade service - no more manual upgrades (uphill! both ways! in january! eight feet of snow! and we liked it!) for us.
If anyone notices anything broken, give a yell or something.
Doing some maintenance, might disappear for a bit. Hopefully we’ll be back.
Completely out of the blue, the QM writes:
I’d long known that The Verve lost all their Bittersweet Symphony royalties due to allegedly ripping off the Rolling Stones’s Last Time. But I could never figure it out, since I don’t think there’s anything in LT that sounds like BS.
Then I finally found out that the accusation was that The Verve used “too much” of a sample from an orchestral version (I’d say more an adaptation that a version) of LT.
Thanks to YouTube I found the orchestral original. “Too much” of a sample is, shall we say, a massive understatement.
and answers a question I hadn’t asked, but had wondered about for a long time. How cool is that?