Archive | August, 2008

“Oooh, That’s Clever!” on SXSW ’09 panel picker

by Paul on 11. Aug, 2008 in web conferences

You may have heard of South by South West, the famous music festival held annually in Austin, Texas. Unless you’re in the industry, you’re less likely to have heard of the film and interactive festivals that are also part of the month-long event.
At Clearleft, we regularly close the office and all head over for the [...]

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“I could care less” is just wrong

by Paul on 03. Aug, 2008 in journal

Just a quick note about something that really annoys me from time to time. People who say “I could care less” to mean they don’t care.
I’m not being in any way anti-American, but this grammatical quirk has developed only in American-English, and is not present in British-English. I’m not just saying it’s bad-English; this phrase [...]

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