Recently Noticed

Last night, thanks to Kim, who took a minute on her way out the door to leave a note for the rest of us, I watched the Northern Lights, a thin dance of gauze across a starred sky.

My recent obsession with maps (and need for perspective) has led to this: instead of goldfish, you will now see a current image of the earth, from Earth and Moon Viewer, each time you come to Watermark.  I have put different versions of this on several of my sites.

I like this, from Writing for the Web:

In Latin, "weaving" or "web" is "textus," and the weaver is a "textor." So I suggest that instead of the vague and wordy term "Web content," we use textus as the term for what we put on a computer monitor. (Once printed out, it becomes good old text.) And instead of calling ourselves "Web content developers" (as if we built housing tracts or worked in a darkroom), we could be textors.

And this, from Margaret Cho, via culturekitchen:

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.

Not the whole truth, but true enough to be amusing.

And finally, I am about to take down my Political Humor Poll.  The results, from a very small sample of nine ten votes, are about what I expect from my readers: 70% thought both the site mocking Democrats and the one mocking Republicans were funny; 30% wondered what is wrong with me.

Have a good Monday.

Comments

[Kim]

Another storm from the sun is expected to hit our atmosphere tonight. Last night the Lights were really good at about midnight. They should be in good form again tonight. :D

[jenett]

Yes. We can be textors, but please don't print this comment out, or else it'll become just plain ol' text instead of the wonderful textus it really is, I think...;~))

[Patia]

I liked "textus," too, when I read it. So, if I'm a web content manager, can I become a "textrix"? :-#

[SB]

Ohh, "textrix" -- I like it!