Trying times
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005In Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style, E.B. White talks briefly about indefinable writing style, exemplified by Thomas Paine’s famous line “These are the times that try men’s souls.” … Continue reading »
In Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style, E.B. White talks briefly about indefinable writing style, exemplified by Thomas Paine’s famous line “These are the times that try men’s souls.” … Continue reading »
I think that one of the odd effects of modern technologies is that everybody can develop their own personal sets of ethics on various topics like, for example, file sharing … Continue reading »
I don’t usually get around to doing weekend crosswords but I went ahead and did the Saturday one this weekend while I was on a roll. If I recall … Continue reading »
Here’s day 2 of this experiment, quick before I run off to bed. Not too hard: I will give it a 4 out of 10.
So I was … Continue reading »
Hello. I am experimenting here with a silly idea but I don’t know that anybody else is doing it. I do the Washington Post crossword puzzle pretty often … Continue reading »
The design of this site is original but is based on the the work of various amazing artists of the past, especially that of Alphonse Mucha. I’ve also incorporated some of the work of Grandville, Edmund J. Sullivan, and Henry van de Velde. The fonts used for headings are Berlin Regular and Airplane (Maniackers Design).
I aim for valid Valid XHTML and CSS. Handcoding rocks; a thousand curses upon antiseptic web design. This site is glued together with WordPress. Complete sentences, proper punctuation, and good typography are also off the hook. And oh yeah, use Firefox.
Feeds are available for XML monodrone.org (entire website) or XML 28. Clueless? (this section).
![]()
Made in Washington, DC, USA.