This will break the P-G’s heart. Apparently you can split infinitives.
Big Bad Book Blog - Lies Your English Teacher Told You. By Erin Nelsen
Which is a good thing because I don’t even know what an infinitive is, much less how to not split it.
YouTube - Quick Change Artists on America’s Got Talent
I liked the comment left by ayeroxor.
PS, I should mention, it is the Hoff.
Design Observer - Regrets Only
Peter recommends the comments, which he says are
are for the most part great, though.
Not counting the Plastic Turkey Under the We Won the War and Achieved Eternal Peace In the Middle East Banner On the USS Lincoln comments.
All I’ll say, reacting to this key line:
it is our fundamental belief, and a central tenet of “good” design, that words and images must be used responsibly, especially when the matters articulated are of vital importance to the life of our nation.
Is that I wonder how many of them have old Soviet propaganda posters hanging on their walls.
And that I think it’s bloody depressing and that the First Lady deserves better than this.
What a pile of crap, it’s their own political correctness run amok and pure vanity; “intimately engaged in the construction of language, both visual and verbal” - bla,bla,bla what a bunch of black t-shirt egoists. Visual designers owe a LOT to both the Soviet and Nazi propagandists and the look of POWER they graphically represented. They created an idiom still used to day even if ironically by postmodernists to whom everything is accessible by sampling or derivative. It’s almost essential in any outdoor or graphic element to convey power and sex. They’re talking out both sides of their mouth, another thing visualists love - juxtaposition. I used to have old Chinese communist posters similar to those Soviet ones in my dorm room at UC Santa Cruz - funny my parents never objected or even pointed out the inherent cruelty and death they represented.
On the President’s sixtieth birthday, Nintendo is doing it’s patriotic duty by making sure his brain remains supple and springy.
Wired Game Life - Nintendo’s Birthday Present for Bush
(Awww)
Update:
Blegh! Why?! What is this fascination that companies have with pissing away their brands?!
He’s, uh, keen on getting a new keyboard.
Update:
…And everything you ever wanted to know about domain name availability.
Can’t see that keyboard link… This week I must figure out (buy) our wireless solution, so as to avoid the danger of tripping over wires between rooms…
Oh bugger what’s wrong with Gizmodo. You’ll not get the joke!
Uh, might try again later…
Works now! :-)
July 18th, 2006 at 8:57 am
Not so much “break the P-G’s heart”, as “bust all the P-G’s blood vessels”.
STRING HIM/HER/IT UP!
WHAT KIND OF NAME IS “ERIN” ANYWAY?
Splitting Infinitives is OK? Just try it anywhere in my vicinity and see if you think it such a good idea.
GRRRRRRR!!!!!!!
English “Major” indeed. A scrappy “passed-over” rank if you asked me. Find me an English Brigadier (or full Colonel at a stretch) and you might be talking.
[/rant. Pauses to adjust tie and mop flecks of spittle from chin]
“much less how to not split it”
You, on the other hand ninme, are just trying to wind me up. I am bigger than that and shall not rise to the bait. Consider yourself looked down upon thoroughly.
;-)
PG