Archive for the 'This ‘n’ That' Category

Stereoscopic Paintings Online

Tuesday, October 4th, 2011

Check out these paintings by Theo Prins. Hopefully you won’t turn into Willem from Mallrats and you’ll be able to make them work for you.

Watch it Wednesday

Wednesday, September 28th, 2011

It might have been a scene out of The Big Bang Theory except it’s some for-real flashmob fun: Hundreds of Star Wars fans conduct a light sabre battle Monday night in New York City’s Washington Square Park. HuffPo reports.

How To …

Monday, September 26th, 2011

Bloomberg Businessweek has published its “First Annual How To Guide” (of course, you can’t really have a “first annual” anything, but that’s a grammar argument for another time) that provides things like Mika Brzezinski explaining how to get a raise, Mark Penn explaining how to handle a crisis and someone calling him or herself P1X37F0X explaining how to hack the Pentagon.

A lot of the “advice” sounds a lot like the business plan put forth by the South Park gnomes, but it generally makes for fun reading. And if you’re interested in how to tweet, Dwayne Johnson explains in 140 characters or less.

Standards! Standards!

Sunday, September 25th, 2011

Attention writers, editors, and communicators of all kinds: Here are two good infographics worth printing out and pinning to your office wall, courtesy grammar.net and via Ragan:

The 12 most misunderstood English words

10 most commonly misused English words

Watch it Wednesday

Wednesday, September 14th, 2011

Googling “worst commercial ever” takes me to the video you see embedded above. Is it indeed the worst commercial ever? Take 1:23 and judge for yourself.