Archive for June, 2011

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Punctuation Rule of the Day

Jun. 29, 2011

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Punctuation Rule of the Day

Punctuation Rule of the Day: Who gives a f*ck about an Oxford comma? Not Oxford University’s branding style guide, which instructs its readers thus:

As a general rule, do not use the serial/Oxford comma: so write ‘a, b and c’ not ‘a, b, and c’.

It should be noted that an exception has been made for sentences where an Oxford comma would “assist in the meaning of the sentence or helps to resolve ambiguity,” such as when “one of the items in the list is already joined by ‘and’.”

FWIW, The Oxford Style Manual continues to promote the usage of an Oxford comma in all cases.

[mefi / kottke / image: someecards.]

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Revelation 9 of the Day

Jun. 29, 2011

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Revelation 9 of the Day

Revelation 9 of the Day: Had John Lennon voted in the 1980 presidential elections, he would have pulled the lever for Ronald Reagan according to his personal assistant Fred Seaman.

Seaman, who was Lennon’s assistant from 1979 until his untimely death the following year, told Beatles Stories director Seth Swirsky that Lennon had taken a political turn to the right in his last years after “sour[ing] on Jimmy Carter.”

“He was a very different person back in 1979 and 80 than he’d been when he wrote ‘Imagine’,” Seaman says. “By 1979 he looked back on that guy and was embarrassed by that guy’s naivety.”

[canoe / nme.]

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Plagiarizing Principal of the Day

Jun. 29, 2011

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Plagiarizing Principal of the Day

Plagiarizing Principal of the Day: The principal of a middle school in Manhattan is accused of plagiarizing his graduation speech after portions of a well-known commencement speech delivered by the late David Foster Wallace at Kenyon College in 2005 somehow found their way into his remarks.

Best/worst part? Joseph Anderson heads the Clinton School for Writers and Artists.

“We’re a school for writers and artists. It’s kind of ironic that he can’t write it,” said one student. “I think a lot of us could have written amazing speeches,” said another. “It’s kind of rude to us. It’s like saying, ‘You’re not important enough to write a speech about.’”

City Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott has launched an investigation into the matter, saying “We do not tolerate plagiarism in our schools.” Anderson, who, according to the New York Daily News, is not expected to return to the school after summer break, blamed his borrowing on “oversight.”

“I thought I had stated in my commencement speech that I was sharing a story I had read,” he is quoted as saying. “It was not my intention to mislead my school community.”

[nydn.]

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Adorable Animals Being Adorable of the Day

Jun. 29, 2011

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Adorable Animals Being Adorable of the Day: Penguins vs. Iceberg — who ya got??

[videogum.]

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Look At This Sheepherding Dog of the Day

Jun. 29, 2011

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Look At This Sheepherding Dog of the Day: Nancy the sheepherding Chihuahua makes Ci look like an even bigger coward, proving in the process that size really doesn’t matter.

[newslite.]