Political Ads Worth Watching

...not worth watching because they're *good*, mind you. Just because they're so WEIRD.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/09/old-campaign-ad.html

Shorthand that leads to illiteracy.

Found in a large corporation's project plan just now:

"Deliver customer sessions in FY08Q4/Q5"

This is the sort of elegant shorthand that could be 100% clear and really be a nicer way of saying "end of this year, maybe the very beginning of next" but I can see people adopting this and then someday nobody will remember what the Q used to stand for.

I try not to be such a prescriptivist*, but god.

* Linguistic prescription means "this is the rule in English and it must never change". I bitch and whine about spelling and apostrophes a lot, for example.

New Toy?

Dear Lazyweb:

Which of these phones doesn't suck the most? Or least? That double-negative is confusing.

Sincerely,
Tired Of This Old Thing