Just when I thought that Britney can’t go any lower than she did on the stage of the MTV awards, I’m finding out about another controversy related to her name. This time it’s her venture into the beauty industry, launching a new perfume, called “Believe”, branded by Elizabeth Arden. Little did she know that the […]
Guess what famous American writer said “Prose is architecture, not interior decoration”? Yes, of course, Ernest Hemingway, whose minimalist writing style and deceptively simple prose earned him world-wide recognition.
James Joyce once reflected on Hemingway: “He has reduced the veil between literature and life, which is what every writer strives to do. Have you read […]
August 6, 1991: Tim Berners-Lee releases his idea for the World Wide Web and publishes the First Web Site with the guidelines on what is WWW, how to install a browser, how to set up a server.
August 6, 2007: John Boardley launches new blog iLoveTypography.com and starts a “Type Revolution”. In one month his […]
There is a new meme going around the BlogTown, started by Brian Gardner who only a year ago never designed a blog, and now he’s releasing one wordpress masterpiece after another. His theme Vertigo is one of the most popular in the blogiverse and his most recent theme Revolution did just that - revolutionized the […]
It’s hard to find anything more elusive than time. There are only a few things in life as precious as time. I often find it unfair that we’re allotted only 24 hours a day. It is the fact that I have a hard time coping with, constantly wishing to add if not another 24 then […]
“Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words”, said Dorothy Parker. At the age of 24 she sold a poem to Vanity Fair in 1917, and a few months later was hired as an editorial assistant for Vogue. In 1919 she was writing for Vanity Fair, and despite becoming readers favourite […]
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