Interesting Links for 21-02-2013

[andrewducker]

• Adverbs are awesome.
  (tags: viasupergee writing grammar )
• The man who collects The White Album.
  (tags: music art beatles )
• How one man's lies almost destroyed the comics industry
  (tags: censorship children comics )
• Dammit, I want to play with Google Glass.
  (tags: technology google augmentedreality )
• Why do we let the Prudocracy police our sexual

Comments

[naath]

google glass> oooooh, shiny. Hope it eventually exists to buy :) also in a version that works over normal glasses...

[philmophlegm]

"In another famous passage from Seduction, Wertham suggests that Batman and Robin inspire homosexuality in young readers"

Someone should tell Orson Scott Card...

[andrewducker]

Just to see his head explode!

[supergee]

That and the "dirty picture" were the two famous parts. Some say that Wertham invented slash goggles, but Leslie Fiedler was working the same territory. It was like Darwin and Wallace.

[philmophlegm]

The article on adverbs illustrates shows why reviewing what you've written before you publish it is the best way to make your writing clear.

Not (as the article condemning adverbs suggests) by eliminating a useful type of word entirely.

Yes, the pro-adverbs article is sensible. But even this includes a horribly convoluted (see the adverb there?) sentence like:
"The metaphorical equation of dwarfism with inadequacy seems unpleasant, but setting that aside, the presupposition is that for most adverb-plus-verb combinations in English there is an alternative choice of verb that is synonymous with the combination, and you should use it."

If only the pro-adverb writer had reviewed his article critically (another adverb) before publishing, his article would have been more clear, more concise and more readable.

[andrewducker]

Oh yes. I've got a post half-written in my head about how advice is frequently written in a black and white way, and as if it was applicable for the whole audience, when usually it's shades of grey and is useful to only a section of it.

[joexnz]

Bizarrely looking at averages somehow rehumanised porn for me
Probably the sports allusion helped.

[bart_calendar]

What really sucks is how much better and more interesting comics were before the Comics Code came into place.

My dad has a ton of pre-code comics and they storytelling is amazing and much more nuanced than what came after (until, obviously, the rise of graphic novels.)

[andrewducker]

Yeah, they basically killed anything aimed at adults for over thirty years. Craziness.