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Zombies and Question Marks
Reading this article from the BBC News about zombie attacks, I was intrigued not by the scientific study itself, but rather by the name of one of the researchers: Professor Robert Smith?.
As the article points out, the question mark is part of his name! Who does something like this? And why? Were his parents playing a cruel joke? Were Mr. and Mrs. Smith? merely carrying on a long-standing family tradition? Did he change it himself later in life as a sign of independence and non-conformity?
After a bit of Googling, I was able to find Professor Smith?’s home page where he discusses his name: “If you haven’t lived with an incredibly common name, then you have no idea what it’s like to be entirely invisible on Google. Not that the question mark actually solves that, but at least it differentiates me from that guy from The Cure.”
He’s right, the question mark does nothing to help his Google search results, since Google ignores the question mark completely. If he was really trying to distinguish himself from the other Robert Smith you’d think he would have changed his name to something that doesn’t contain the words Robert and Smith!
But back to the zombies—what a silly study. Everyone knows (or will soon discover when the dead begin to rise) that the only way to kill a zombie is to destroy its brain. Merely decapitating it will leave a lot of heads rolling around on the ground biting at your ankles.
I can’t believe it took a scientific paper to determine that the only way to deal with zombies is to “hit them hard and hit them often…It’s imperative that zombies are dealt with quickly or else… we are all in a great deal of trouble.” Have these people not seen any of the Living Dead movies? Haven’t they read World War Z? It’s always the scientists who want to conduct research on the zombie epidemic that ultimately meet a very gruesome demise. So, question mark or not, I wish Professor Smith? luck in his future dealings with zombies—I’m suddenly in the mood to listen to Friday I’m In Love.
American illustrator, David Klein (1918-2005), created numerous travel posters for Howard Hughes’ Trans World Airlines (TWA) in the 1950s and 1960s. His posters use eye-popping colors, iconic landmarks, and scenic images to advertise global travel.
"panotone (n): the vocal utterances of conference panel in agreement, w/o variation in meaningful point or tone, oftentime to a boring degree"
— thatwhichmatter on Twitter, 3 August 2009
The 7 vices of highly creative people
If you go through life free of bad habits, you won’t live forever, but it will feel like it.
"If it’s a good idea and it gets you excited, try it, and if it bursts into flames, that’s going to be exciting too. People always ask, “What is your greatest failure?” I always have the same answer – We’re working on it right now, it’s gonna be awesome!"
— Jim Coudal, Design Glut, 5 August 2009
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If your old work doesn’t shame you, you’re not growing.
It’s nice to look back and feel that you’ve made progress. When you look at old work, it should suck glaringly and you should cringe painfully. But there should also be some germ within it that you’re not ashamed of—some spark of talent or inspiration that connects to what you do now.
"— Jeffrey Zeldman, Past Blast, 5 Aug 2009.
