October 2011
Overheard mourns the passing of alumnus and mentor...
overheardattheateneo:
Honors and applause now! For as the immortal bard once wrote: “Gentle breath of yours my sails must fill, or else my project fails, which was to please. Now I want spirits to enforce, art to enchant, and my ending is despair, unless I be relieved by prayer, which pierces so that it assaults mercy itself and frees all faults. As you from crimes would pardoned...
5 months and enjoying it.
Hello hello! Since I’m not that sleepy for now, I just want to jot down some thoughts I have about life in the working atmosphere. Since I haven’t really written anything relevant for now, I just want to share some thoughts about the so-called “real life”
1) You can never please anyone
As much as you would like to be the good guy and be nice to everyone, not everyone in...
An Inca Girl has been perfectly mummified for 500...
did-you-kno:
The 15-year-old “Llullaillaco Maiden” was sacrificed along with two other children on top of Mt. Llullaillco, in northern Argentina, at 22,000 feet. In the Inca culture only beautiful, healthy, physically perfect children were sacrificed, and it was an honor to be chosen. According to Inca beliefs, the children did not die, but joined their ancestors and watched over their ...
That feeling when you're hearing that new added...
damnthatswhatshesaid:
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fail
A: the MAC owner died? Too bad, his Make-up products are really good!
B: OMG, REALLY??!
*Tamang blonde moment lang oh
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Newsweek: Steve Jobs Basically Introduces 'Siri'... →
newsweek:
In another of the many amazing quotes in that 3,500-word NEWSWEEK interview with Steve Jobs, which appeared in a 1984 special issue of the magazine, the Apple co-founder totally envisions Siri—the virtual personal assistant the company announced earlier this week.
Look!
I’ve always thought…
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The Proofreading Primer →
copyeditor:
futurejournalismproject:
Patrick LaForge, New York Times’ editor of news presentation, offers today’s best in Freshest Advices.
In a memo to the paper’s editors and reporters, he offers “proofreading tips culled from years of journalism tip sheets.”
Break your mind-set: Read the copy out loud. Read it silently, one word at a time. Read it backward and focus on the spelling of...
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“You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for...”
– Steve Jobs (2005 Stanford Commencent Speech)
