Dan Wineman explains why the Flash on your retail website needs to go:

Me: (tries to visit a local restaurant’s website via iPhone)
Restaurant website: I require Flash. Fuck off.
Me: I just want to know how late you’re open.
Website: Nope.
Me: But I’m on my phone. Don’t you have a little “HTML Version” link up in the corner or something?
Website: I’m ( Read more... )

As of today, because I am unable to excise the phrase from usage, I am officially abbreviating "in these tough economic times" to ITTET.

That's all.

Dear Nice People Who Run the Little Café Downstairs ( Read more... )

Dear Feminist Diary,*

Yesterday at a Feminists Against Lipstick consciousness-raising session, I met the most radical, fabulously hirsute, man-hating lesbian female chauvinist. She is amazing and embodies glorious womynhood and all that feminism can be. After the meeting we took to the stores to shrilly rail against corporate culture, the male ( Read more... )

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This week's Thursday usage note may actually be a grammar note. In fact, it's one I think I might have written about before.

Here's the problem: much of my authors can't tell the difference between an amount of things that can be counted and a number of things that can't, many of the time.

Let us consider apples and rice.

Apples are countable ( Read more... )