Daily Archives: April 15, 2008

Unnecessary Quotation Marks

(Found at photobasement.com) This makes my day. I cannot express strongly enough how much using quotation marks for emphasis pisses me off. It’s right up there with cold ketchup (don’t get me started on that). To my delight, it seems … Continue reading

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Madness: Trapped in Elevator Car 30

Fascinating and creepy article about being trapped in an elevator for 41 hours: The control panel made a beep, and White waited a moment, expecting a voice to give information or instructions, but none came. He pressed the intercom button, … Continue reading

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Scoop: Kaplan Teams Up With Aspyr Media to Create an SAT Test Prep Game For the Nintendo DS

From Newsweek.com: A mock-up of the Kaplan SAT Prep DS, under development by Aspyr Media Oh, Brain Age: what have you wrought? Later today, Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions (a division of Kaplan, which is in turn owned by Newsweek’s … Continue reading

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