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The 1956 movie "The Forbidden Planet" was amazing for the young Leslie Neilsen's Bryllcreem, and for the fact that it is loosely based on Shakespeare's The Tempest, with a dollop of Freudianism. Full colour, and a Theremin providing the sound effects. And Walter Pidgeon as the mad scientis...

Short? Hemingway is supposed to have said "The shorter the better. Can you write a six-word story that would break someone's heart? I can. Like this:

For sale: baby shoes. Never Worn.

Q.E.D.

:P For most of my work I use Linux Libertine Serif and Libertine Biolinum (both do very well with secondary scripts and are free) Libertine Fonts . For collaborative work I find Minion Pro and Adobe Garamond Pro to be excellent choices. I like the italic of AGP better than MP, but overall Minion Pro...

Try searching for "Courier Prime" — it is free, it has identical metrics to Courier, but it looks nicer, and it
has italics. Proper italics.

I have found Scrivener on the Apple Mac to be totally reliable over many years: I have never once lost anything, and I use the software every day. Can I respectfully suggest that the problem may lie with your setup?

Try using Myriad Pro Condensed for the Binder: that's what I use. Lovely and narrow!

"Apple really do their homework"... oh, really? Search Google for "apple failures". There are thousands of them. What about this, from http://www.infoworld.com/article/2630243/mac-os-x/apple-s-12-biggest-failures.html "Apple's core principles of high quality, pleasurable inn...

Wait until you begin worrying about the problem of italicised periods. I mean, how can they tell? That's when you really go crazy!

I second the use of Linux Libertine. I use it every day. And I have been studying typefaces for fifty years.

When you say VLC, do you mean "VLC media player"? It's the only mention of VLC that I can find on Google.

I would love the name generator to have a section of British names which are spelled differently from the way they are pronounced: Beauchamp, Menzies, Ruthven, Cholmondeley, etc (pronounced Beecham, Mingus, Riven, Chumley). And Wemyss, Colquhoun, Devereux, Derby, Blyth, and so on. And those very str...

Reed College is famous as the alma mater for poets Gary Snyder and Philip Whalen, and also Steve jobs: he learned calligraphy there, which is what provoked him to make good typography so important a part of the Apple ecosystem. Just sayin'. Or typin'.

I love sentences like this:

"You may need to watch it several times to begin to follow it."

So by the third time you watch it (you've only wasted three hours of your precious time by now) you have no idea what it's about. Good!

Ms Rice has been appointed to the Board of Dropbox, to the astonishment of all. Yes, she oversaw massive privacy invasions and wiretapping, and many Americans regard her as a war criminal. Suddenly Dropbox looks less kindly and more evil.