Reuters - In the land of Shakespeare,
punctuation faced extinction until writer Lynne
Truss came to the rescue with a clutch of carefully
placed commas and colons.
Using two
new punctuation marks, the question comma and the exclamation comma:
and respectively, inquisitiveness and exclamation may be expressed
within a written sentence structure, so that thoughts may be more
easily and clearly conveyed to readers. The new punctuation marks are
for use within a written sentence between words as a comma, but with
more feeling or inquisitiveness.Seems that this is sort of an addition
to the faddish punctuation known as the Interrobang.via I/P Updates
The Eternal Appeal of Punctuation12/19/2003 11:35 AM Punk-Tuation:
Is It The New Anarchy Or Boring Old Fascism All Over Again? How
anal serious about apostrophes are you? Just how far
would you go for a perfect semi-colon? Do you regularly reach for
heart pills before you read MetaFilter? Take comfort in this: Lynne
Trusse's wildly popular Eats Shoots And Leaves is this year's surprise bestseller in Britain. And I've limited myself to the
MeFi-adored Guardian, just to make my (as it were) point.
So... how important is punctuation to you? My own suspicion is that
punctuation is the new spelling. It is important.
(And, lest this seem carefree and frivolous, let me confess
right away that MetaFilter may well be the worst offender, in this
regard, ever to have blessedly existed.)
Writes, Punctuation Book and Finds It's a Best Seller
Transmode Moves Stateside06/05/2005 11:43 PM Optical networking firm Transmode announced an expansion into the
North American market this week, following its merger with Lumentis in
March.
Vigilante posers
Vigilante posers04/08/2005 08:51 PM Arizona's Minuteman Project rustles up some more publicity -- this
time with a special kind of photo shoot for detainees.
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
A panda walked into a cafe. He ordered a sandwich, ate it, then pulled
out a gun and shot the waiter. 'Why?' groaned the injured man. The
panda shrugged, tossed him a badly punctuated wildlife manual and
walked out. And sure enough, when the waiter consulted the book, he
found an explanation. 'Panda,' ran the entry for his assailant. 'Large
black and white mammal native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.'
There's examples galore of wounded, contortion's of English grammer,
assaulting the sense's of those with weaker stomach's for such
grammatic assaults as me. And don't get me started on spurious
punctuation--I've "NO CHECKS" PLEASE signs and the like to put you off
your dinner. I could go on, excetera, excetera, but I got to run if
I'm to make the Starbucks' in time for a quick expresso before
closing.
Red letter day for Red-heads at London zoo (Reuters)
Red letter day for Red-heads at London zoo (Reuters)08/06/2004 09:16 AM Reuters - They say blondes have more fun, but
redheads will have the edge on Sunday when they get into
London Zoo for free to view a rare new-born ginger-coloured
monkey.
Portrait of a U.S. Vigilante in Afghanistan
Portrait of a U.S. Vigilante in Afghanistan07/11/2004 03:51 AM Three Americans have been arrested and accused of running their own
vigilante antiterrorism campaign in Kabul.
Effort to Ban Gay Marriage Heads Toward Defeat (Reuters)
Effort to Ban Gay Marriage Heads Toward Defeat (Reuters)07/14/2004 12:10 AM Reuters - A White House-backed drive to amend
the U.S. Constitution to ban same-sex marriage headed toward an
election-year defeat on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.
Jon Stewart's 'Daily Show' Heads to DVD (Reuters)
Jon Stewart's 'Daily Show' Heads to DVD (Reuters)04/07/2005 03:34 AM Reuters - The Comedy Central cable
network has announced that it will issue a DVD of "The Daily
Show With Jon Stewart" for the first time in the series'
nine-year history.
King of Fighters Censored for Stateside Release12/13/2003 12:45 PM Coreyh writes "The just-released King of Fighters 2000/2001 game
compilation for the PlayStation 2 has been censored. The content
removed from the 2D fighter ...
China creates web vigilante site
China creates web vigilante site06/10/2004 09:03 PM China start a new website for people to report on what officials call
unhealthy information on the internet.
Kabul cuts US vigilante sentences
Kabul cuts US vigilante sentences03/31/2005 09:23 AM An Afghan court reduces the sentences of three US citizens jailed for
torturing Afghans and running a private jail.
Britons scratch their heads over hair loss (Reuters)
Britons scratch their heads over hair loss (Reuters)04/09/2004 04:13 PM Reuters - British men are the most likely in Europe to fret and
agonise about receding
hairlines and thinning scalps but are the least likely to do anything
about the problem.
Beckham's Ball Heads Back Down to Earth (Reuters)
Beckham's Ball Heads Back Down to Earth (Reuters)07/15/2004 12:05 PM Reuters - A $12.3 million bid for the ball that
David Beckham blasted into the stands during England's Euro
2004 shootout defeat against Portugal has been ruled a fake.
Bush Heads to Mexico for Americas Summit (Reuters)
Bush Heads to Mexico for Americas Summit (Reuters)01/12/2004 12:43 AM Reuters - President Bush goes south of
the Rio Grande for an Americas-wide summit on Monday trying to
win friends in an increasingly troublesome region.
Bush Heads to Europe for Iraq Support, D-Day (Reuters)
Bush Heads to Europe for Iraq Support, D-Day (Reuters)06/03/2004 12:01 PM Reuters - President Bush left on Thursday on a
quick trip to Italy and France to seek more international
support for his Iraq mission and mark the 60th anniversary of
the D-Day invasion.
Bush Heads Toward Defeat on Gay-Marriage Measure (Reuters)
Bush Heads Toward Defeat on Gay-Marriage Measure (Reuters)07/13/2004 03:49 PM Reuters - President Bush's bid to amend the
Constitution to ban same sex-marriage headed toward defeat on
Tuesday, with Democratic foe John Kerry accusing him of
divisive election-year politics.
Japanese tourist heads for space station (Reuters)
Japanese tourist heads for space station (Reuters)05/18/2004 08:52 PM Reuters - A U.S. space travel agency and a Japanese advertising firm
aim to send a
"prominent Japanese figure" to the International Space Station aboard
a Russian Soyuz, the Space
Adventures company says.
Carpool vigilante site closed by critics
Carpool vigilante site closed by critics05/13/2004 06:22 PM A Web site that posts photos of single drivers who are spotted using
the carpool lane is taken offline.
NATO Heads for Iraq Training Deal After Wrangle (Reuters)
NATO Heads for Iraq Training Deal After Wrangle (Reuters)06/25/2004 06:31 PM Reuters - NATO nations' envoys struck a
tentative deal Friday to help the interim government in Baghdad
train its security forces after hours of wrangling that echoed
last year's bust-up before the U.S.-led Iraq war.
Gandhi's Congress Heads for Shock India Election Win (Reuters)
Gandhi's Congress Heads for Shock India Election Win (Reuters)05/13/2004 02:20 AM Reuters - India's opposition, led by the Gandhi
dynasty, headed for a shock election win on Thursday as
millions of rural poor punished the government for leaving them
out of the country's economic boom.
Powell Heads for Darfur, Annan Arrives in Sudan (Reuters)
Powell Heads for Darfur, Annan Arrives in Sudan (Reuters)06/30/2004 06:09 AM Reuters - Secretary of State Colin Powell
left for Sudan's troubled Darfur region on Wednesday on a trip
aid agencies said could save lives by putting the pressure on
Khartoum to curb Arab militias and streamline relief work.
Edwards Heads Back to Kansas to Apologize for Snub (Reuters)
Edwards Heads Back to Kansas to Apologize for Snub (Reuters)08/08/2004 07:03 AM Reuters - Democratic vice presidential
nominee John Edwards was to head to Lawrence, Kansas, on Sunday
to offer an apology for an inadvertent snub by presidential
hopeful John Kerry and himself.
Eighty-Foot Dead Whale Heads for Coast (Reuters)
Eighty-Foot Dead Whale Heads for Coast (Reuters)08/02/2004 10:04 AM Reuters - An 80-foot dead whale has been spotted
floating in the Solent off the south coast of England and is
expected to wash ashore in the next few days -- a rare
occurrence in southern Britain, the UK coastguard said on
Monday.
First-Of-A-Kind Private Rocket Plane Heads to Space (Reuters)
Japan Vows to Stay in Iraq; Filipino Heads Home (Reuters)
Japan Vows to Stay in Iraq; Filipino Heads Home (Reuters)07/21/2004 05:54 AM Reuters - Japan vowed Wednesday to keep its
troops in Iraq despite apparent threats from a group linked to
al Qaeda, after Philippine forces bowed to kidnappers' demands
that they pull out to save the life of a hostage.
IBM Believes In Spam For A Spam Vigilante Revenge
IBM Believes In Spam For A Spam Vigilante Revenge03/22/2005 05:03 PM It seems that larger companies are really getting pissed off at
spammers these days. While going out and attacking spammers used to be
more limited to net.vigilantes, some well known companies have been
taking stronger approaches to fighting spam lately. A few months back
there was Lycos
' plan to let anyone download a screensaver that would launch
distributed denial of service attacks on spammers. While Lycos claimed
it wouldn't take anyone offline, it wasn't long before that
was proven false. Next up on the list is IBM, whose latest
anti-spam offering will send data right
back at spamming machines in an effort to slow them down. It's
not quite a distributed denial of service attack -- it's more like a
centralized one. It's sort of one step up beyond greyl
isting which just slows down the spam. Instead, this tries to
slow down the computer sending the spam. Again, this leaves IBM open
to charges of hitting back too hard -- especially if innocent sites
get taken offline in the process. Still, when large companies like
IBM start offering products like this, you know that people are
getting fed up.
possible heads up
possible heads up02/10/2004 02:41 AM I taped a segment for VH1's new series "The Best Week Ever" a couple of days ago.
I took at look at the VH1 website a moment ago, and the topics I
talked about are listed for tonight's show.
So I'm guessing that, if I didn't suck, I'll be on at 11PM EST on VH1.
Updated: Well, none of my stuff made it. Maybe I'll
get another chance next week -- there are a few topics we talked about
that weren't on this episode. If anyone needs me, I'll be crossing my
fingers.
By the way, how cool is it that Chris Jericho is so damn funny?
One More Update: I just heard from a producer at VH1.
He told me that there were some issues, unrelated to me, that
prevented my stuff from getting on this week. He says there's a good
chance it will happen next week, so be sure to tune in then!
I promised an increase of 5 viewers, you guys. Don't make me look bad.
Are Three Heads Better Than One?
Are Three Heads Better Than One?09/09/2004 12:31 PM An all new Probe Droid has just been launched; this week we're
searching for collector's opinions on the possibility of Luke and Han
head variants for Hasbro's upcoming Unleashed Stormtrooper.
Kotobukiya did it with their Stormtrooper kit and Hasbro has already
shown an inclination to this idea with their red and white
Unleashed Clone Trooper variants; question is, do collectors
want it? Look for the new Probe Droid ballot now and cast your vote
today!
Two heads are better than one03/31/2005 11:50 PM One of the interesting things (as I've said before) about the emerging
Dashboard Widgets developer community is how it's, well, developing.
The latest news: two of the largest sites, DashboardDeveloper and The
Dashboarder, have merged and become DashboardWidgets.com. That's an...
Two Heads
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