Category Archives: current events
So sad about Anthony Shadid
What a great writer. What a great loss. Anthony Shadid, currently reporting for The New York Times, apparently died today in Syria after an asthma attack. From the Times’s front page story: Jill Abramson, the executive editor, informed the newspaper’s … Continue reading
Attention, Mr. Saha: You are in a spy movie
If this happened to me, I’d immediately get a hat and sunglasses and a bus ticket in someone else’s name directly for the border, because there’s just no way this doesn’t mean you’re about to be in computer-security action movie. … Continue reading
Brad Pitt Questioned in Hollywood Murder; Hollywood Crime Writers Sue over Life Imitating Art
Here’s my question about the fact that Brad Pitt and his bodyguard apparently answered a few questions about the head and, eventually, hands and feet of 66-year-old Hervey Medellin, which appeared on a hiking trail near Pitt’s Hollywood home: Will … Continue reading
Memo to Jeremy Renner re: Your Axe Fight
So, you’re Jeremy Renner, and you were just in Mission Impossible: Jumping Off Tall Buildings, and while Tom Cruise was doing his own stunts off the side of the world’s largest building, you were magnetically attached to a robot cart … Continue reading
Holy crap: Rudy Ruettiger Charged with Fraud
I did not see this ending coming: The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Daniel Ruettiger and 12 other participants in a scheme to deceive investors into buying stock in his sports drink company. Ruettiger is widely known for having … Continue reading
New Jersey Emergency Text Seems Like Next Wave for Warfare
That’s an alarming title, right? But hey: thousands of people in New Jersey received alarming text messages today, purportedly from the government, warning them of a life-threatening civil emergency and urging them to take cover immediately. The texts weren’t sent … Continue reading
People search for weird things, Chapter 672
From yesterday’s L.A. Times:
English Majors Make Headlines
See also: “Chance for Alliterative Headline Buoys Bored Copyeditor.”
Anti-Power Point? Whyfore?
All right, I actually vividly know and understand the problems with Power Point as a means of presenting information. When you’re reading slides to a meeting, you’re missing the point of using them. Slides in PowerPoint should be like the … Continue reading
