Azamat Kalmurzayev drawing up plans for Team JMastr.
As each team of students showed off the functionality and designs of their creations, the other students and the instructors looked on in awe. One team has an App Store-quality design. Another has a working prototype. More than one team…
Apparently The State failed again to check out that part of the AP stylebook (or just plain common sense) about the use of “accused.” But once again, thanks for saving us the trial.
Five Classic Quotes By Writers On Writing
Yeah, about right….
Post these above your desk.
Chuck E. Cheese can’t spell - seen on a mechanical horse ride at a North Little Rock, Ark., restaurant.
Original artwork from promotion for the game Space Marine (which is a lot of fun).
This is the truth of editing!
Nice - though this applies more to self-editing (copy editors need to be a tad less aggressive when it’s not their copy). Goes along with my post that while reporters query sources, editors query copy.
Gmail Tap. Very sweet - gotta have it!
(And a belated April 1 to ya!)
More evidence of not getting this Internet thing? So my local McClatchy paper, The State, runs (in the paper) a page-sized chart of when local fish are available. Cool. Would love to save it, and on the online site, the paper is touting it. So click, download and print (handy to have a hard copy). Only - well, let me just invite you to download it yourself and try to print it so it fits a normal page - and see how legible it is.
Fortunately, there’s a link on the page to the S.C. Aquarium’s page on this — oops, link is not clickable.
At least the aquarium doesn’t have it’s digital head up its …
Go the trouble of cutting and pasting the link from the paper, click around and there’s the chart. Way to go, McClatchy!
This Sunday comic by Bill Amend illustrates perfectly the inanity of using “and/or.”
Or as the old illustration goes, so the police radio crackles that the suspect may be armed with a shotgun or a machine gun, and the order is to shoot to kill if seen. So if he comes out brandishing both, you’re holding fire?
(BTW, no knock on Amend here; that was perfect for the joke. The entire strip is used here only for educational purposes - the context of and/or would not be clear without it. Visit his site - buy his stuff. Really. Support comic strip artists. They make the day worthwhile.)
Oops, one of those common holiday errors. It’s Kriss Kringle.
You know you need some free graphic design programs. This is a pretty cool review of several.
From today’s The State newspaper in Columbia, S.C.
Headlines should reflect exactly what the story says.
Read the story closely. Was the ban “blocked”? In fact, was there any “ban” at all?
If there are any questions, start with the last graf and then read up four grafs to the one that begins “In fact, the new standards don’t ban incandescent bulbs …”
Found on a fence on 35th Street in Queens. Probably a good thing this resident doesn’t “bare” any.
