Monthly Archives: April 2010

Plus fast!

By susan | Published: April 30, 2010
I noticed an ad in the métro claiming that some… product (I don’t recall what it was) was in fact “faster!” (than other competing products, I assume). What interested me was the fact that the phrase in French, “plus vite” (literally more fast), could be iconically abbreviated by swapping in the + sign for the [...]
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Updates coming soon…

By susan | Published: April 17, 2010
I’m changing things around behind the scenes, so hopefully I’ll start providing more “content” here soon, and hopefully the impending visual alterations will be welcome.
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