“People are sick of simplicity and elegance. Let’s wow them with a cornucopia of advertising and infotainment!”

Date June 15, 2006

It appears that the Washington Post did a little redesign of the bottom half of their front page. Basically, what they did was uglify things and strew some ads around willy-nilly (“some ads” is really doing the situation a disservice, though—the ads are multitudinous and garish in the extreme). Also, at least on my computer, [...]

Advantage Allen

Date June 15, 2006

This isn’t very timely, but so be it.

I watched Match Point last night. It was pretty good, but I liked it better when it was called The Talented Mr. Ripley. Okay, it wasn’t exactly the same, but it had some definite similarities (which I won’t go into because they’re essential to the two plots). Anyway, [...]