Scoop’s Views

In the late 1980s, though, as PageMaker and QuarkXPress were vying for placement on newsroom computers as a desktop publishing tool, sometimes replacing actual Linotypes, other times replacing old tape-based typesetting machines, I developed an even stronger appreciation for good design in font families.

The Deathly Hallows is the climax to the last 17 years of Rowling’s life, a time when she has gone from a single, divorced mother living on public assistance to a happily married mother of three and one of the richest women in the world.

On July 25, in a post titled, Has the Firefox Add-on site become senile?, I pointed out how the Firefox add-on site seemed to be suffering some f…

Special Operations soldiers, friends, and family from all around the country gathered in Peoria, Illinois, to pay tribute to retired U.S. Army General Wayne Allan Downing, a leader of the special operations community who remained a prominent anti-terrorism expert even after his military retirement at a memorial service last Saturday.

This morning, though, while browsing the Firefox Add-on site for some updates, I noticed an odd thing: every add-on listed was created on the same date! If the information on the site is correct, I will not be using any of the add-ons.

I love numbers. I love statistics. I love women. I love full breasts. At first glance, it appears I am saying that I would be one of those guys in email, IM, or other chat, asking, So, honey, what are your measurements? Then I slap myself back to reality, knowing that most Gen X and Gen Y types don’t call — and don’t know that us Baby Boomers used a lot of innuendo.

That man, Neil Armstrong, represented the face of millions of people, who, for thousands of years, considered what was on that mystery object that lit the night sky.

The Rev. Malcolm Finkley, of the Coatesville, Pennsylvania Tabernacle Baptist Church, seems to have a lot to learn about being a “man of God,” not to mention about being a leader, especially of a church. Finkley, it seems, has been at the church for about a year now, and during that time, he’s rubbed some in the congregation the wrong way, including some of the ways he presents himself while at the pulpit.

Firefighters rushed by the truckload to the Tastykake bakery around five this morning when they heard Tastykake’s butterscotch krimpets were hot.

There is a murder story on Philadelphia’s WCAU-TV 10…