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Daily Archives Thursday, February 2008

Roses Are #FF0000

It’s Valentine’s Day today. I have already my present from my Significant Other: a facsimile of the Kelmscott Chaucer. Aww.
Equally geeky/sweet: Typecaster. “A Flash app [that] lets you drag two fonts from the left side into the stage area… to see how well the two types mix when dating (fonts available are Mistral, Papyrus, Comic [...]

Posted 14 February 2008 † Karie § Personal § Popular Culture § Print Culture ‡ Comments (1)

Words, Language and Politics, oh my!

The other day I was watching an interview with Peter Carey on BBC News following the Australian apology to Aborigines. I suspect BBC anticipated an in-depth interview about Australian identity and a smart post-colonial take on Australian history. Instead they got themselves a cagey author who was possibly the worst interviewee I have seen in [...]

Posted 14 February 2008 † Karie § Literature § News ‡ Comments (1)