Tag Archives: stupidity

I need a flux capacitor to fix this…

Posted on August 21, 2018 by Michael Cohen

I recently wrote an article for TidBITS about the app’s resurrected text-box-linking feature. A reader responded with complaints about Pages 7: Whatever, it is still the most ignorant word processing software. I can open a document in Word I made in … Continue reading →

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I don’t need those stinkin’ badges!

Posted on January 8, 2015 by Michael Cohen

I’m delighted that Apple’s iBooks app can display an update badge  to alert you when a book that you have purchased from the iBooks Store has been updated. It would be more delightful if the alert mechanism worked. For example, here is … Continue reading →

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Beowulf: The monster and the cricket

Posted on June 18, 2014 by MEC

I like Tolkien and I like Anglo-Saxon poetry. So, when a friend sent me a link to a New Yorker piece by dance critic Joan Acocello, titled “Slaying Monsters,” I clicked. Then I had to scrape the stupid from my … Continue reading →

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I wave my hand and raise a storm

Posted on May 23, 2011 by MEC

Late last week I began composing a short piece for this blog about the phrase “get over it.” However, knowing that the weekly edition of TidBITS was running a little light this week, I showed it to the editors there, … Continue reading →

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Today in Journamalism™

Posted on January 6, 2011 by MEC

I keep hearing journalists and correspondents from major media outlets (such as CBS and ABC) talk about the “Republican takeover of Congress.” According to my copy of the Constitution (the one that includes the bit about slavery that has been … Continue reading →

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