As long as left coasters keep rhapsodizing about In-N-Out, I'm gonna keep talking about Yuengling, readily available in every grocery store and bar. Actually, no one wins in that game. :| - jrhyley
"People in other careers speak of a 'seven year itch' phenomenon, but these guys have a 'two year itch.' These guys will change jobs not so much to get a raise… but to keep from getting bored." Ow. - jrhyley
Randall Munroe did not care much for Anathen. Having finished it about 15 minutes ago myself, I only partially agree with him. This is only the second Stephenson work I didn't gobble up with a level of fanboy glee usually reserved for space operas, but I did still find it enjoyable. It is only the first time I haven't wholeheartedly agreed with something expounded upon in xkcd. The level of internal conflict I have about both of these is... disproportionate. - jrhyley
“Instructions: Take a picture of yourself right now. Don't change your clothes, don't fix your hair - just take a picture. Post that picture with NO editing. Post these instructions with the picture.”
"The View made the front page of the New York Times website. Why? Because unlike so many other mainstream journalists right now, Barbara Walters actually did her job yesterday. " - jrhyley
If she isn't composing/recording her own music within the next 5 years, it will be a huge waste of talent. I can't even begin to contemplate the type of mind it takes to (basically) play six instruments at once. Jeez. - jrhyley
This is a great article that basically says 'screw what your body font is. Use the prettiest ampersand possible throughout your site' and goes through how to make a css style for your ampersands that will use the best ampersand your user has installed. Geeky and wonderful. - Kevin Fox
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Why just focus on ampersands? Why not other commonly used symbols too? Or why not just say, use the best font for your titles and headings? On a similar theme, one thing that irks me is when people use tilde to represent approximately. This is acceptable in e-mail, but for real documents, people should really use the approximately symbol, which looks like a double tilde.≈ - Robert Felty
"Or why not just say, use the best font for your titles and headings?" Perhaps the idea is that you won't notice the font change if it's just used on a single rarer symbol (but it might decrease from the design if you mix fonts generally). "This is acceptable in e-mail, but for real documents, people should really use the approximately symbol, which looks like a double tilde.≈" Thanks for the tip. - Philipp Lenssen
there are alot of typographical rules that are rarely followed and for that reason seems silly like this ampersand one. The one that always gets me is how list items dots or numbers are always supposed to be hanging in the margin. it looks dumb but it's "the rule" - Stefan Hayden
[whimper] I hate being the target demographic. But make it scrobble, and make the iPhone itself scrobble, and I will plunk down my money in a heartbeat. - jrhyley
