Who Cares?

[jimhines]

Things I Don’t Particularly Care About:

• Charlie Sheen. Oh yay, the Mel Gibson rerun is on.
• Bristol Palin’s book deal. People are fascinated by celebrities (see previous point), and often buy their books.  Publishers like to make money. The fact that a publisher thinks people will buy a Palin book is neither shocking nor new.
• Reality TV.
• Pointless online drama. Drama Llama sez, “Piss off.”

Things I Do Care About:

• Con or Bust auctions run through March 6. Check ‘em out. Some good stuff up for bid, and the money raised is used to help PoC attend SFF conventions. Intro post is here.
• One space or two after a period? This used to be in the previous column, until I came across 6 Surprising Bad Practices That Hurt Dyslexic Users. “on the web … double-spac­ing after a period can cre­ate ‘rivers’ within text that make it dif­fi­cult for users to find the end of sen­tences…” This is going to be a very difficult habit for me to train myself out of.
• Whether to use…or . . . for ellipses when formatting an e-book. I asked on Twitter, and the majority favored… Yes, nitpicky author is nitpicky.  (Also recommended: unicode character … for …)
• The fact that so many of our elected officials seem to be mainlining uncut WTF these days.

Mirrored from Jim C. Hines.

Comments

[georgmi]

I am not a psychiatrist (or even close), but the snippets I hear of Charlie Sheen on the radio sound more like a guy playing a role--and enjoying the heck out of the attention--than a guy who's actually as far off the deep end as he wants people to think he is.

I don't see a lot of similarity with Mel Gibson's issues.

Of course, that could be the fact that I've a strong tendency to switch to XM radio when the celebrity stories come on the news station, so I'm not getting the whole picture. :)

[jimhines]

It was the anti-semetic stuff that made me pick Mel Gibson for that line. I'd have to look up the actual quotes, and I really don't want to :-P

I do wonder how much he's deliberately playing it up and (very effectively) raking in the attention, though...

[georgmi]

I hadn't seen the anti-Semitic side previously. (See above, changing the channel. :) )

On review, though, still not on the order of good ol'* Mel's drunken tirades.

And now I've made you spend far more time and energy on Carlos Estevez than you wanted to, or than he deserves. Bwahahaha.

*typed with tongue firmly in cheek.

[muccamukk]

Thanks for the dyslexia link. I hadn't thought about high contrast fonts being a problem, nor serif fonts. Though I guess style=mine can come in handy there.