Reading v Arsenal League Cup fourth rounds of yore, here starring Ibrahima Sonko and Arturo Lupoli in 2005. Photograph: Richard Heathcote/Getty Images Preamble Good evening everyone for what, hopefully, will be an intriguing League Cup encounter. Both sides are trying to defy recent form, but only…

When I was writing about browser-developer relations yesterday , I took this little dig at Safari: Apple, of course, dodges the issue entirely by having absolutely zero developer relations when it comes to their browser. A friend of mine who works at Apple took me to task about this on Twitter (not…

Even af­ter his parachute opened, Tyler Stark sensed he was coming down too fast. The last thing he’d heard was the pilot saying, “Bailout! Bailout! Bail—” Before the third call was finished, there’d come the violent kick in the rear from the ejector seat, then a rush of cool air. They called it…

As a barefoot toddler he stunned his local club with sublime skills. That boy grew into the £32m man who has lit up the Premier League. This is the story of the Eden Project He was little more than a dot in the distance, but Royal Stade Brainois football club had just reseeded their pitch and he was…

In his post, “ The Plain Old Function Call ,” Vinicius Gomes compares these two lines of code: # version 1choose('color', ['red', 'black', 'green'], 'ie7')# version 2choose('color').from('red', 'black', 'green').ignore('ie7').any In Python, at least, you can always provide names for your parameters,…

Jean-Louis Gassée Follow Sep 2, 2012 · 4 min read “Monsieur Voiture, you hopeless [redacted French slur], you still can’t prepare a proper mayonnaise! I’ll show you one last time while standing on one foot…” [Bear with me, the connection with today’s title will become apparent in a moment.] The year…

You should always read what Milton Glaser has to say, in interviews or otherwise. Such a clear thinker. http://t.co/bES9IUIS

Writing, directing, editing, and starring in a critically acclaimed television show while creating a new hour of stand-up comedy every year would be enough for most entertainers. Hell, it would be more than enough: It would be a grueling, exhausting ticket to a complete nervous breakdown, especially…

In the space of just over a decade, Christopher Nolan has shot from promising British indie director to undisputed master of a new brand of intelligent escapism. Joseph Bevan anatomises his body of work. Updated: 26 November 2014 from our August 2012 issue The Prestige (2006) At one point in The…

And @pattonoswalt writes one of the most inspiring things I’ve read in a year. It’s not just for comics either. http://t.co/JZHmKTeo

One of the pleasures of a recent piece on semicolons by Ben Dolnick, in the Times (“Semicolons: A Love Story”), was his reference to William James, whose deft use of the semicolon to pile on clauses, Dolnick writes, is “a way of saying to the reader, who is already holding one bag of groceries,…

Marco Arment has a dour post about the Mac App Store this morning: The Mac App Store is in significant danger of becoming an irrelevant, low-traffic flea market where buyers rarely venture for serious purchases. And I bet that’s not what Apple had in mind at all. It would be easy to dismiss this as…

My review of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: http://t.co/yXFC1BS5

Sticky TOC engaged! Do not remove this! History has proven that tossing out a familiar platform that prints money for your business and starting anew isn't easy: just ask Apple and Microsoft, whose next-generation desktop operating systems in the 1990s (codenamed "Copland" and "Cairo," respectively)…

[This is the text of a talk I gave at LaGuardia College, Long Island City, Queens, in memory of Bob Fitch, who died on March 4, 2011, from complications of a fall he suffered when returning home from teaching at LaGuardia. My short remembrance, written for The Nation, is here . Thanks to Jane LaTour…

In America, financial inequality has soared over the past few decades. But the issue has had surprisingly little political traction. Illustration by John Cuneo The most striking change in American society in the past generation—roughly since Ronald Reagan was elected President—has been the increase…

Share › This is a very old entry — images are small, formatting is off. Twitter Gives you the Bird Media Jun. 7, 2012 by Armin Industry / Media Launched in 2006, Twitter is, officially, “a real-time information network that connects you to the latest stories, ideas, opinions and news,” but we all…

This is why I still pay attention to "old man of the web" @zeldman: boldness with purpose. http://t.co/x2w38heA

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This guest post comes from Daniel Jacobson , Director of Application Development for NPR . Daniel leads NPR’s content management solutions, is the creator of the NPR API and is a frequent contributor to the Inside NPR.org blog . My previous posts focused on COPE (Create Once, Publish Everywhere) and…

»Det er ægte liberale værdier, der har været ledetråden i venstrefløjens politiske arbejde gennem generationer. Og det er også ledetråden for den nuværende regering,« fastslog erhvervs- og handelsminister Pia Olsen Dyhr (SF) for nylig og fortsatte: »Vi sætter fokus på frihed til det enkelte…

April 19, 2012 Ralf Herrmann The story begins in 2006 with a trip down Route 66. Day in, day out, I looked at U.S. traffic signs that were either set in the old, somewhat clumsy “FHWA font series” or the new Clearview HWY typeface. Approaching the signs, I would often test myself: which typeface…

Illustration by Mark Matcho “Don’t take anything that happens to you there personally,” the woman at the local chamber of commerce says when I tell her that tomorrow I start working at “Amalgamated Product Giant Shipping Worldwide Inc.” She winks at me. I stare at her for a second. “ What? ” I ask.…

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Draft is a series about the art and craft of writing. Is it safe to talk about punctuation again? Eight years ago, Lynne Truss’s best-selling “Eats, Shoots & Leaves” took, in the words of her subtitle, a “Zero Tolerance Approach” to the subject. Although Truss’s focus on errors drew the ire, if not…

No big deal, just a check Hunter S. Thompson wrote out for two million dollars worth of cocaine. http://t.co/JWbUOsLH