Salon’s regular Ask the Pilot feature highlights some of the best features from airports around the world that should be made universal.
Your brain needs a different shape to be good at languages
The Beeb reports that those who are good at languages tend to have more white matter in the part of the brain that processes sound.
Don’t bother with interesting headlines: Google won’t like it
The New York Times has a piece of interest to web subs on how various newspapers are ditching clever headlines in favour of the prosaic, since Google News and various other bots can’t cope with nuance. It’s basic search engine optimisation theory, of course, but it’s interesting to see it having an effect on sites such as the BBC’s and older school newspapers.
The survivors at Imagine
Press Gazette has more details on how many Highbury people survived the transition to Imagine.
SMD’s contact details
In case you want to get in touch with the new owners of Hotdog and DVD World, you can give them a call on 020 7608 6500. The accounts department, however, is at Remnant Media. Tel: 0845 225 9743
Poor old Press Gazette
You’ve got to feel sorry for Press Gazette. A bunch of journalists all subjecting your work to analysis and thinking they could do better? Horrific.
Yet, all the same, you know there’s something wrong when one article on desk lamps gets the headline “Light fanastic” (I don’t think there’s supposed to be a pun in the second word, but let me know if you can spot one), a quote in a house ad on the appointments page gets an attribution twice and, on the same page, this collection of little beauties slips through in 18 point:
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Let he who is without error cast the first stone.