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Wednesday, April 16, 2003 |
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Chiasmus, the reversal of the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases, is one of the great mainstays of rhetoric: Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country. This is not the beginning of the end, but, perhaps, the end of the beginning. And so on.
Apparently, anyway. No, I didn't know the word either. Hoorah, then, for Chiasmus.com for collecting them. Here's another for you, from George Bernard Shaw. Included only because I like the word Shavian: "People are fond of blaming valets[Ben Hammersley.com]
I think I might have known the definition of chiasmus at some point in the past, but I certainly haven't thought of it in a while. Thanks to Ben for the refresher.
Like Ben, I too am a big fan of the word Shavian. |
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Bruce Tognazzini (Tog) on Apple Squandering the Advantage, on interface innovations Apple could make. Lists extra screen objects including: Piles (stacks of documents); visual cues on folders; various object/application collections. [Interconnected]
Worth a read. There are rumors that Panther might have piles. (Hmm, that doesn't sound good.) John Siracusa's About the Finder... article on Ars Technica is another good read on this theme.
Though Apple itself has let its UI leadership lapse, I'd argue that independent developers have made up for that with innovative software such as Spring, Clutter, and Konfabulator. When Apple does roll Panther out, I hope that they will consider trumpeting the accomplishments of these independent developers, as well. Robb Beal, of Spring fame, writes eloquently of such an imagined in his Our Macworld Keynote Article. I'm sure he'd be just as happy with something like that happening at WWDC. |
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