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.
Web Pioneer Tim Berners-Lee has gone on record saying he wishes he hadn’t made the two slashes after http: a necessary part of the standard web address. I say if this is the biggest mistake he thinks he has made, then we cut him a little slack because the positive things he has done far [...]
Amazing photos of numbers and punctuation found in The Netherlands with Google Earth. There are also photos of upper and lowercase letters on the author’s Flickr site. Someone needs to turn this into a font or something somehow. Flickr via Boing Boing
The governing body in charge of web domain naming has approved the use of non-Latin based characters. Web addresses are currently limited to the 26 Latin letters, the number 0-9, and the hyphen. Not very convenient if you happen to live in say, Russia or China. No mention of punctuation being added, but it is [...]
One of my favorite Apple news sites, Daring Fireball, has posted this story about some apostrophe issues in an ad for a new phone from Verizon. Looks like someone needs some better copy editing.
