July 2009
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June 2009
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Who gives a fuck about an oxford comma?
ferrydust:
hello-therelove:
growingup:
(via inflightradio)
I never use oxford commas, to be honest. I always just put “and”.
i always use oxford commas, cause thats the way i was taught.
::raises hand::
If you’re not using the comma, you’re probably doing it wrong.
e.g. “Highlights of his global tour include encounters with Nelson Mandela, an 800-year-old demigod and a dildo...
“The Internet has a viral, social aspect… It leads you to believe that you’re...”
– Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, discussing the role of the Internet in the lives of people who commit hate crimes (such as Scott Roeder, George Tiller’s killer, and James von Brunn, the Holocaust Museum shooter). Quoted in Kevin Eckstrom, “Anti-faith, anti-government violence a...
maverickny:
bijan:
Strange Powers - The Shins
...
“Psychoanalyzing people is not a substitute for considering the reasons that...”
– Victor Reppert, author of C.S. Lewis’s Dangerous Idea: In Defense of the Argument From Reason
“There are of course people in our own day to whom the whole situation seems...”
– C.S. Lewis, On Obstinacy in Belief (via Victor Reppert)
fred-wilson:
Another Reason To Go - Vetiver -...
“When Christ teaches to “render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, but...”
– Louis Dumont, “A modified view of our origins: The Christian beginnings of modern individualism,” Religion 12/1 (January 1982): 1-27, pp. 6, 10. (via nbr)
“If you have an old PowerPC Mac, you should probably make it its favorite dinner,...”
– Charlie Sorrel, Wired, Apple Euthanizes PowerPC Macs with Snow Leopard
“My mother would often call me to the dinner table with the words “Come and eat...”
– Victor Reppert, _On the importance of commas_
“[I]f it smells like an important media outlet, looks like an important media...”
– Elliott Ng, writer for CNReviews, on TechCrunch
