Literally, A Web Log

iPhone Availability Update
Um, of course they’re available. Jobs wouldn’t have promised one to every employee if they didn’t have a literal shit-ton (an actual unit of measurement, really!) of the things.

I kind of like this intentionally humorous mis-use of literally.
iPhone

The New York Times / Q & A: Sarah Jessica Parker
Q: But what’s the long term? There’s a sense that labels like this have a short life span, like many things nowadays. Get in, get out.
A: The limited amount of branding that I’ve done has been really thought and thought through. Nothing I have done […]

Microsoft takes email design back 5 years
As I type this post I still can’t believe it. I’m literally stunned. If you haven’t already heard, I’m talking about the recent news that Outlook 2007, released next month, will stop using Internet Explorer to render HTML emails and instead use the crippled Microsoft Word rendering engine.

This is […]

BBC: Man freed from collapsed building

Eyewitness Anthony Gilberthorpe told BBC News 24: “I heard a mighty explosion and about two floors and the roof of a building to my left hand side was literally showering down in front of me.
“So I literally threw myself, literally jumped up and threw myself, to the right hand side […]

NPR: ‘Someday’ Charts the Journey of Motherhood
Alison McGhee, a mother of three, is the author of Someday. Peter Reynolds provided the illustrations.
In a few hundred words, McGhee simply and elegantly charts the arc of motherhood — from birth and childhood through adulthood and the next generation.
McGhee says that in Someday, her ninth book, she literally […]