Tintin Goes To Court
Tintin, the globe-trotting boy reporter, has gotten himself into yet another scrape — one of his books is in danger of being banned in his native land of Belgium. According to the Guardian: A Congolese man living in Belgium is trying to have Tintin in the Congo banned in the boy reporter’s native country, almost…
How to Name a Volcano
It’s not easy to come up with a volcano name that forces people to sound like they’ve got something jammed down their throats, but someone’s gotta do it. Here’s the trick to doing it properly. Reprinted with permission from Matthew Inman aka “The Oatmeal,” a former web designer turned comic artist. You can see more…
How To Fix Today’s Ebook Readers
Kindle and iBooks on iPad still have a long way to go. Craig Mod, publishing experimenter, breaks them down, tells us what needs fixing and offers up some future functionality for digital books. Let’s not talk about video integration. Or new ‘interface paradigms.’ These aren’t CD-ROMs from 1993. Let’s talk about text. Let’s talk about…