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List of Words Banished from the Queen’s English for Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselessness

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

It’s winter in Sault Saint Marie, MI, along the U.S./Canada international border; what else is there to do but shovel snow? Word "czars" at Lake Superior State University (LSSU) "unfriended" 15 words and phrases and declared them "shovel-ready" for inclusion on the university's 35th annual List of Words Banished from the ...

Report: Majority Of Newspapers Now Purchased By Kidnappers To Prove Date

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

Breaking news! NEW YORK—According to a report published this week in American Journalism Review, 93 percent of all newspaper sales can now be attributed to kidnappers seeking to prove the day's date in filmed ransom demands. "Although the vast majority of Americans now get their news from the Internet or television, a ...

Industry Icons

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

It's almost Friday, so I share with you: Rumor has it that a limited print edition will be available at Print 09.

Font Conference

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

Font humor from CollegeHumor:

Why I Stopped Reading Magazines

Saturday, December 15th, 2007

There’s a lot of Magazine hype in the blogosphere recently, and I’ve contributed plenty of my own Magazine hype in the past. So I thought it would be a good opportunity to offer some anti-hype, derived from my own experience reading Magazines — an explanation of why I STOPPED reading ...

April Fools: A WhatTheyThink Tradition

Monday, April 2nd, 2007

Sadly, April 1st fell on a Sunday this time around so we weren't able to get you. It fell on a Saturday last year! Trust me, we enjoy getting you. Since we decided to do an April Fools edition in 2003, our writers have had a ton ...

Google’s April Fools Post Says More than Its Obvious Amusing Intent

Sunday, April 1st, 2007

Ok, when I saw the intro page for their April Fools joke, about "Gmail Paper," I thought it might make some sense because I actually remember when you could send a letter through AOL that they would print and mail for you. AOL discontinued that sometime around 1997 or so, ...