The commas that cost companies millions.
“The Parties have a right to, and should, promote sustainable development.”
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“The Parties have a right to, and should promote, sustainable development.”
Some countries weren’t happy with the original wording because they didn’t necessarily want to be locked into promoting sustainable development. Moving the comma kept the naysayers happy while placating those who wanted stronger action.
Web Typography Resources for Web Designers and Web Developers.
Relevant: Texter is a little javascript experiment that lets you explore your creativity by drawing with words.
Donald E. Knuth’s Metafont dream going crazy.
Weird things variable fonts can do.
The Untold Story of Otto Warmbier, American Hostage.
The World Economy Runs on GPS. It Needs a Backup Plan.
The small satellite network, which keeps global computer systems from freaking out, is shockingly vulnerable to all kinds of interference.
The Bullshit Web.
Bullshit — in the form of CPU-sucking surveillance, unnecessarily-interruptive elements, and behaviours that nobody responsible for a website would themselves find appealing as a visitor — is unwelcome and intolerable.
Thanks for the good times, Morgan.
Morgan Russell High Frontiers/Reality Hackers/MONDO 2000 Writer/Editor Publisher RIP 12/11/1957 — 7/16/2018.
Relevant: Bring Morgan Home to Wisconsin!❤
This person, dubbed Montana Skeptic–who was not a troll–irked Elon Musk to the point that the Tesla founder figured out the writer’s identity and contacted his employer. Montana Skeptic has since taken his Twitter account down and announced he is no longer writing about the company.
We need a new model for tech journalism.
Time and again tech reporting gets caught in the hype rather than reality; a super-fast but impractical rail alternative proposed by Elon Musk gets tons of coverage, but it’s difficult to get real rail projects funded. Breathless reporting on Bitcoin and blockchain risks getting readers caught in get-rich-quick scams. And even in consumer journalism, the tech press often misunderstands its audience: VR and 3D television are greeted more enthusiastically by journalists than by consumers.