Against all odds, I have written a book designed to familiarize the reader with Prototype and script.aculo.us. How am I supposed to convey how hard this was? I’d say it was like giving childbirth, but the process itself took much longer than it takes to grow a baby. Why did…
Month: June 2008
If I were the benevolent dictator, I would make it capital offense for members of the punditocracy to opine ignorantly about the tastes and habits of “regular people,” who apparently have comfort zones no larger than their footprints, and who are unwilling to vote for anyone who doesn’t live their lives exactly like they (are imagined to) do.
Atrios
Because we all know where black teenage males in the hood get their inspiration from — famous middle‐aged people. I’ll never forget when I was a kid and everyone was in those Cosby sweaters… man, that was a hot‐ass summer.
Jesse Taylor
Quoth Michael Arrington: “Kind of takes the air out of the balloon when you can’t get them riled up.” In other words: the answer is still yes.
When writers purport to educate readers about complex matters, and they are arguably wrong, I think The Times cannot label it opinion and let it go at that.
Clark Hoyt, New York Times Ombudsman