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Every modern typographer agrees on the one-space rule. It’s one of the canonical rules of the profession, in the same way that waiters know that the salad fork goes to the left of the dinner fork and fashion designers know to put men’s shirt buttons on the right and women’s on the left. Every major style guide—including the Modern Language Association Style Manual and theChicago Manual of Style—prescribes a single space after a period. (The Publications Manual of the American Psychological Association, used widely in the social sciences, allows for two spaces in draft manuscripts but recommends one space in published work.) Most ordinary people would know the one-space rule, too, if it weren’t for a quirk of history. In the middle of the last century, a now-outmoded technology—the manual typewriter—invaded the American workplace. To accommodate that machine’s shortcomings, everyone began to type wrong. And even though we no longer use typewriters, we all still type like we do. —Manjoo
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I love you guys, but you’re crazy. On questions of aesthetic preference there’s no particular reason that normal people should listen to a bunch of geeky obsessives who spend orders of magnitude more time on these issues than average. It’s like how you probably shouldn’t listen to me when I tell you not to use .doc files or that you might want to consider a digital audio player with Ogg Vorbis support. I strongly believe those things, but even I know they’re pointless and arbitrary for everyone who doesn’t consider “Save As…” an opportunity for political action.
Nor should we assume that just because typographers believe earnestly in the single space that their belief is held entirely in good faith. They’re drunk on the awesome power of their proportional fonts, and sure of the cosmic import of the minuscule kerning decisions that it is their lonely duty to make. Of course they don’t want lowly typists exercising their opinions about letter spacing. Those people aren’t qualified to have opinions! —Lee
dang. might start saving those avocado and mango seeds now.
Chart: America’s Gardens Are Warmer in 2012
One way to tell that the world (or at this country) is warming is to take a look at the map the USDA puts on the back of seed packets, which shows that winter temperatures have risen pretty much everywhere in the U.S. The Department of Agriculture released an update to the 1990 version of its “Plant Hardiness Zone Map,” which reveals much milder winters than in the past. Read more.
[Image: USDA]
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Watch this mayor’s soul leave his body. Fine questioning by a TV reporter. via ImmigrationProf.
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Jan Brewer vs. Obama: An airport meeting turns into an epic battle
She wrote some things in her book he didn’t like: The tough-on-immigration Arizona governor, who was not particularly happy with the way the president treated her in a much-talked-about-at-the-time 2010 meeting, wrote about it in her new book ”Scorpions for Breakfast,” and Obama didn’t like what she said. So, last night, when Obama got into Phoenix, this happened. ”I will say that a picture is what it is,” she said. “I must say, I was not hostile. I was trying to be very, very gracious. I respect the office of the president, and I would never be disrespectful in that manner.” What we would give to hear that conversation up close. (AP Photo) source
3 weeks to read the book.
Monthly Archives: June 2008
Paleo gets day job
PaleoMedia.org producer named BW News Editor. Continue reading
VA. company got 70% of IVA funds
A Times-News investigation showed that lots of charter, virtual school money is going to out-of-state corporations, which have an increasing influence on the Idaho State Department of Education… Continue reading
Meeting in Mtn. Home to pick Gannon succesor
District 23 GOP will meet to pick three possible successors to Sen. Tom Gannon, who died Tuesday. Possible appointees include: Stephen Hartgen, Twin Falls business consultant and national GOP convention delegate; District 23 state Reps. Bert Brackett and Jim Patrick; … Continue reading
Capitol gets max price
The Idaho State Capitol Renovation Project will cost $2.5 million more than planned. Stegner: “We have always been much more concerned about the renovation phase than the wings phase because of the unknowns that are typically attributed to renovation projects.” … Continue reading
Food Bank hands out expired eats
New Idaho Food Bank guidelines allow visual inspection to trump expiration dates. Idaho Community Action Network complains that out-of-date food is being delivered to state’s hungry poeple. ICAN foodie: “I wonder if they would serve it to their own family.” … Continue reading
Obama’s hopeful, changeling vocab
Says John Rember, who knows of what he speaks: Barack Obama really does offer hope. It’s because of the way he uses the language. Obama uses English the same way George Orwell used English, as a tool to expose possibility rather than obscure it… Continue reading
Field to fight meth for a decade
Montana numbers don’t show dramatic success for Meth Project. Meth use could be up since MT started airing graphic ads in 2005. Debbie Field, Idaho Meth Project does not just sit in her office: “When you have to convince a … Continue reading
Paulites join forces with Beck
Ada County Ron Paul supporters will unite with Rod Beck at state GOP convention. Rep. Labrador supports deposing Sullivan: “There is some dissatisfaction with the chairman. And I think the dissatisfaction breeds some weird marriages.” Miller, AP in the Press … Continue reading
Boise lawyer may get back to GTMO
Boise lawyer David Nevin says Bush pushing for Guantanamo Bay convictions before he leaves office. Nevin had five hour meeting with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who rejected his counsel. Nevin: “This is not a fair proceeding. This is a show trial, … Continue reading
Most of Kuwaiti sand has arrived
The final 7 containers of contaminated Kuwaiti sand will arrive in Grandview shortly. 153 giant boxes of depleted uranium leaden sand already here. No harmful lead levels detected, according to sand host American Ecology. Erik Olson in The Daily News.
What ever happened to Rodolfo?
I was the first foreign journalist to talk with Rodolfo Montiel Flores who, in March of 1998, was engaged in intense confrontations with loggers in his home area of Petatlán in Mexico’s Guerrero State. Flores was jailed and then became an environmental icon for his work. I’d like to hear from him again… Continue reading
