Month: October 2010

Acronyms have become so prevalent that they suffer what anything does when coined without end: devaluation. “Oh, my God” still packs quite a punch in the right circumstances. “OMG”, by contrast, is barely effective as a plaything any more. (“OMG he’s cute.” “OMG is it ten already?”) LOL began life as “laughing out loud”, a way for internet chatterers to explain a long pause in typing. Now, LOL means “you just said something so amusing my lip curled for a moment there.” And how many BFFs will truly be best friends forever?  Teens, with their habit of bleaching once-mighty words (from “awesome” to “fantastic”), can quickly render a coinage banal.

I really like this. Its from a place called Dim Sum Pop (http://www.dimsumpop.com) and I’d love to see more menus like this, subtly nudging you along the menu choices from start to finish and giving you questions to answer along the way to help make decisions easier.

Really nice. I’d love to know what @smorgasbord thinks. He’ll probably hate it.

Well worth a read.

Makes perfect sense.

Fashion lovers, images of outfits, video of people wearing them so you can better visualize what they would look like on and then a link. to buy. Just brilliant.