12 month ago
Andy Baio : On the overuse of the Trajan typeface in movie posters - the accompanying Flickr pool [via]
nelson : Trajan is the Movie Font - Type criticism can be funny!
plasticbag : Trajan is the Movie Font - Entertaining video that reveals the lack of creativity among designers working in movie posters and DVD covers. Although, you know, if people understand Trajan to mean 'movie' then why confuse them?
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34 month ago
jkottke : Favorite new word (this week): snowclone - Favorite new word (this week): snowclone, a description of "a type of formula-based cliche which uses an old idiom in a new context". Like "____ is the new ____", "____, now more than ever", or "all your ____ are belong to us". (via anil) [via]
nelson : Snowclone - Snowclones are the new cliches! Yes, Virginia, there is a Snowclone.
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38 month ago
kellan : "Paris killed Achilles, remember, but Troy still lost." - Best commet yet on the Oracle/InnoDB/MySQL store. Yay for squeezing every ounce of meaning out of a metaphor. #
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39 month ago
kayodeok : The New Cliche: "It's the Wikipedia of..." - You know something has arrived when it’s used to describe a phenomenon
Linkorama : The New Cliche: "It's the Wikipedia of..." - You know something has arrived when it’s used to describe a phenomenon.
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