Archive for February, 2008

Today on CNN​.com

CNN​.com announces that Mitt Romney will be suspending his campaign following a disap­pointing showing on Super Tuesday. To announce this news, CNN​.com places a banner at the top of their page. Click here to see the banner as it appeared at 12:45pm EST. Mercifully, it was only up for about 7 minutes, and has now been replaced with a headline that contains neither apos­trophes nor plurals.

What Would Sigmund Say?

Every once in a while — maybe once in eighteen months — I will find something so wonderful that it literally makes me squee with delight. I like pens. Specifically fountain pens. I love how easy they are to write with. I hate ball­points so much that I absolutely refuse to use them. For “cheap” writing needs, I use roller­balls. It just takes too much effort to drag that gummy, nasty, ballpoint paste across the paper. And they stink, and they don’t write evenly. So I bought myself a very nice fountain pen. I have several cheapies that work well, but I found a really nice, mid-​​​​priced pen that I decided that [ . . . ]

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