Monthly Archives: November 2009

CamelCase

By question | Published: November 30, 2009
“Put some distance between you and your Master Card; don’t let your Iphone make the rules.” Great article from The New York Times Magazine on CamelCase – the practice of capitalizing letters in the middle of words, or of combining words together and keeping the initial letters capitalized.  For example, iPhone and TiVo (the latter was [...]
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What’s in a name? Punctuation, sometimes

By question | Published: November 27, 2009
Meet Just-in’love Smith.  J-love to his friends.  He’s a Senior playing Guard on the Siena College basketball team.  In addition to playing basketball, he spent 4 years in the military between Community College and Siena, one year of which was in Iraq.
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New AOL logos

By question | Published: November 24, 2009
Yesterday AOL released images of its new logo.  We’re going to spend some time looking at this “rebranding” effort to understand what the goals were, and whether they were successful. I have to say I’m a little confused.  I thought AOL stood for America Online, and it turns out this used to be true, but it’s [...]
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URL shortening service for twitter

By question | Published: November 16, 2009
David Rees, whose Get Your War On comics and unstoppable techniques I have enjoyed for years, has created a new URL shortening service that looks pretty brilliant. www.urlshorteningservicefortwitter.com And here’s a link to this post using the new service.
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Vigilante punctuation justice

By question | Published: November 13, 2009
From Telegraph.co.uk: “Stefan Gatward, a 62-year-old accountant, has been called a vandal and graffiti artist after he corrected the punctuation on his street signs.  Frustrated by living in St Johns Close, in Turnbridge Wells, Mr Gatward decided to buy a can of black paint and a craft brush before [...]
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Quellipsis sighting

By question | Published: November 11, 2009
Found an example of a quellipsis on another website: The Bathroom Monologues.  The author didn’t note it as such, but I believe the usage is correct.  There’s some good stuff on the site. Bathroom Monologue: Punctuation Remarks
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