What I found so interesting in this article about arming DC police with semi-auto AR-15s is that when the press and the anti-2nd amendment DC government talks about getting guns of the street (translation: out of the hands of law abiding citizens), they love to use the term “assault rifles.” When these same weapons [...]
Monthly Archives: May 2008
In which the typographic business is given, good and hard
May 14, 2008 – 9:59 am
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 [...]
View from the balcony
May 13, 2008 – 6:08 pm
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!)
New Spiritualized May 27th
May 11, 2008 – 10:00 pm
Whoo hoo!
And a clip featuring a warehouse of medical equipment dating back to Victorian times…
Enough already
May 7, 2008 – 1:26 pm
I’m so sick of books, movies, whatever, with titles of this format. Maybe I should write a book, and title it Gerund Noun.
Always outnumbered, never outgunned
May 2, 2008 – 9:54 pm
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 [...]
Great things are on the horizon
May 1, 2008 – 5:40 pm
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