The New York Times magazine has an excellent article by Michael Pollan titled “Our National Eating Disorder“, which covers everything from the Atkins fad to the “French paradox”. As a French national living (and eating) in Canada (now a Canadian national too), I can only confirm the fundamental difference between a North American society driven […]
I love Google as much as the next guy, but the company still has a thing or two to learn about basic web design. I was reading a newsgroup post in Google Groups today and wanted to respond to it. So I clicked on the “Reply to this message” link at the bottom of the […]
John Gruber has a new article on the use of brushed-metal windows in the Mac OS X interface. It’s not quite as in-depth as John’s articles usually are. In particular, he fails to mention two additional problems that I have had the opportunity to point out, namely that there is not enough visual difference between […]
It was an excellent week-end for Arsenal. Early Saturday, Birmingham had managed to hold Manchester United to another disappointing 0-0 draw, which meant that the Gunners could put an 11-point between them and their rivals prior to the October 24 clash at Old Trafford, if they could beat Aston Villa at home. They did just […]