As usual, my tech-savvy friend Young clued me into what the kids are doing these days: sending ghosts, sheep and flag of different countries via “text message“.
Image courtesy of Young himself, who also totally blogged about how awesome we are.
Full disclosure: it was my wife who got the ball rolling with “fox in the snow.”
Five seasons of Lou Grant, only three photos.
Mason Adams: the patron saint of Rosstralia. All images from epguides.lougrant.net.
It probably wasn’t the easiest story to have assigned to you after the Monday morning staff meeting, but job well done to the person who programmed DFW’s Host over at The Atlantic. Oh, come on: keeping track of all the class="COLOR" was probably a little bit of fun. The same could not be said for organizing and taming a few dozen pop-up windows. Unless they are using some fancy CMS over at The Atlantic…which I’m guessing they are…and not editing file by file like some mom and pop, indie rock on-line magazine.
For all the technical prowess showed by The Atlantic, and how true to the printed version they stayed, there is something compelling about being able to read all the footnotes at once, which The New York Times allows in the Federer piece. I wonder if The Atlantic people said “but NYT just has them on one page…can’t we do that?”
It’s been a busy couple of weeks:
Yep, that’s pretty much what I’ve got going on.