Category: writing / books
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On the BBC
Hey look at that, I’m quoted in a feature on the front page of the BBC: Do Typefaces Really Matter? (near the end) If you’re visiting from the article, you may wish to see the post that inspired the reporter to give me a call: Fonts Don’t Matter. I wrote it to be a bit…
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Hammy Potter
Trying to sleep in sticky heat with a fan blasting in my face tends to give me the best dreams. I won’t bore you with the details, but last night I dreamed that I went to see the latest Harry Potter movie. The dream seemed to go on for hours; every detail of the plot…
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Book Review: Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card
You could describe Ender’s Game as Harry Potter in space. It’d be a pretty shitty way of describing it, since Ender came long before Harry , but the similarities are there. We’ve got a school full of kids who are special, an upcoming war, a sport that involves flying around and reaching a goal, and…