Three of Potential Interest
Checking my email online tonight, to discover more than thirty open tabs in the browser; stuff to read later, stuff to blog on, stuff to deal with, etc. Here are three:
— Sports Artist Sued for Mix of Crimson and Tide:
In the solemn cathedral of college football devotion and instruction that is the Paul W. Bryant Museum here, a large painting dominates the main chamber. It is called “The Sack,” and it shows an encounter between a Notre Dame quarterback and a human locomotive in crimson and white.
“I’ve never been hit like that before,” the quarterback, Steve Beuerlein, said after his near-lethal sack by Cornelius Bennett in 1986, in the University of Alabama’s first victory ever over his team.
Daniel A. Moore, who painted “The Sack” and scores of other renditions of signal moments in Alabama football history, said he felt something similar last year, when his fax machine began to spit out a lawsuit from the university.
Downward spiral. Here’s a wish for recovery before impact.
— Droolworthy, and, uh, funny as hell:
MacRumors Apple ad contest winner. See more.
— I’d noticed the font used in the Sony Alpha ads recently, and wondered about it. Lo and behold, in my (astonishingly large stack of) email was an ad for it:
Vista Sans, from Emigre. (Natch. Love their stuff.) Read some of the designer’s notes on Vista and others at FontShop.
More ASAP.
Posted by Giles, Tuesday, November 14, 2006, at 12:00 AM.
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Polling Place Photo Project
From the AIGA (!):
The Polling Place Photo Project is a nationwide experiment in citizen journalism that seeks to empower citizens to capture, post and share photographs of democracy in action. By documenting their local voting experience on November 7, voters can contribute to an archive of photographs that captures the richness and complexity of voting in America.
Did I mention it’s being spearheaded by the AIGA? Wow. And some friends:
The Polling Place Photo Project is part of Design for Democracy, an initiative of AIGA, the professional association for design. William Drenttel of Design Observer initiated the project, working in collaboration with Jay Rosen, founder of NewAssignment.Net (a project of New York University’s Department of Journalism).
Good for all of them — applause from here. I’ll be doing my part (after I check the rules for photography hereabouts). Please do the same!
Posted by Giles, Friday, November 3, 2006, at 1:55 PM.
Posted to Design | Ethics | Freedoms and rights | Personal | Photography | Public domain
British Library on Copyrights
From yesterday’s Ars news:
The British Library has the Magna Carta, the Lindisfarne Gospels, and Leonardo da Vinci’s notebook, but it’s still not happy. Why not? Because it has the intellectual property blues.
The Library issued a manifesto today on intellectual property law in the UK and offered six suggestions for cleaning up the current mess, all of which attempt to strike a proper balance between the rights of creators and consumers of content. […]
Overall, the proposals are well-balanced, though parties on both sides of the debate will find bits to dislike. Copyright holders will dislike the restrictions on contracts and DRM, while those in favor of “open access” may be disappointed that the British Library advocates a “life + 70 years” copyright term. Still, it’s good to see an institution with the stature of the Library arguing for such a balanced set of proposals, and we hold out hope that the Library of Congress will one day advocate for many of the same proposals on this side of the pond.
Hear, hear.
Posted by Giles, Tuesday, September 26, 2006, at 9:15 PM.
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Google Books Highlights Banned Books
For decades, literary classics such as The Great Gatsby and The Catcher in the Rye have had a profound impact on millions of readers. Yet every year, there are hundreds of attempts to remove great books from schools and libraries nationwide. Fortunately, the American Library Association and many other organizations are fighting back with Banned Books Week, taking place this year Sept. 23-30.
Now Google has joined the party. At google.com/bannedbooks, you can use Google Book Search to explore some of the best novels of the 20th century which have been challenged or banned. And while libraries and bookstores around the country celebrate the 25th anniversary of Banned Books Week with special readings, displays, and more, you just might end up with a visit to your local library or bookstore and an old favorite or a new banned book in hand.
I don’t even like typing the phrase “banned books.” Glad that Google’s drawing some attention to it — and pushing the use of libraries instead of just their offering.
Posted by Giles, Wednesday, September 13, 2006, at 9:49 PM.
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A Million Little Refunds
James Frey, the author who admitted making up portions of his best-selling memoir, “A Million Little Pieces,” and his publisher, Random House, have agreed in principle on a settlement with readers who filed lawsuits claiming they had been defrauded.
Neither Mr. Frey nor Random House are admitting any wrongdoing, but consumers who bought the book on or before Jan. 26 — when both the publisher and author released statements acknowledging that Mr. Frey had altered certain facts — will be eligible for a full refund, said a person familiar with the negotiations, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the settlement still has to be approved by a judge.
The NYTimes has more.
Posted by Giles, Thursday, September 7, 2006, at 9:16 PM.
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Photoshop: What's Appropriate
Quick mention of something sent along by a friend here in Macon:
This is from the NY Post, a publication I’m not in the habit of reading — but nonetheless a good catch. Altering photographs like this for magazine use, even CBS’s internal magazine, are beyond what Photoshop’s for, I believe, when it comes to people — or anything, for that matter.
For the record, nearly every photo I take runs through Photoshop at some point — especially now that I’m using a camera that shoots RAW. Altering things like exposure and color temperature are standard practice.
Further, I’ll often do a smidgen of “touch up.” Telephone/power lines, dust, something in someone’s teeth, zits — all often get removed in Photoshop. But there’s a line that, for me, rests well shy of altering an image’s character — and making someone twenty pounds thinner definitely crosses that line.
When it comes to photography, I’m more artist than journalist, I guess, but still feel like I have to respect some of journalism’s rules to get “authentic” photographs. What do you think? It is worth following some “rules,” or is this sort of alteration okay?
Posted by Giles, Wednesday, August 30, 2006, at 10:00 AM.
Posted to Book cover photography | Ethics | Photography | Whatever
Amazon: Yuk
As you’ll recall, I blogged on Kite Runner a while ago. As usual, when it came to finding a graphic to use for the post, I started with Amazon — because when they don’t use the “search inside” feature, their pictures are the largest and best quality. (The Kite Runner image wound up coming from elsewhere, FYI.)
Unfortunately, that also means that I get a ton of trash emails from Amazon. Why?
We track items that you may be interested in for price reductions so that you don’t have to. These additional savings on top of our everyday low price may only be available for a limited time, so act now to take advantage of this alert. Prices can go back up at any time and may never be this low again.
Here’s what they “encouraged” me to purchase today:
Yuk isn’t nearly strong enough. I’m glad I haven’t eaten yet.
There’s a dividing line between people who think that Amazon’s tactics are perfectly legit and those who think it’s invasive. I’m among the latter — especially since Amazon’s been rumored to want to include more personal info from third-party sources to create “super-profiles” of their shoppers, “protected” by privacy rules the company sets — rules not dissimilar to those at AOL, for instance.
I’d like to state for the record that I never purchase from Amazon. I use their web system for my own advantages — tracking bestsellers, looking at covers, researching titles sent to me, etc. — and then never buy from them. Heheh. Take that, Amazon!
Now if I could just come up with a similar way to take advantage of Wal-Mart.…
Posted by Giles, Wednesday, August 16, 2006, at 10:32 AM.
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Independence Day, Part One
Heard how easy it is to steal an election?
On this Independence Day in America, please think about what made our nation great and one way we can working on making it great again — by supporting the Steal This Election project.
The suggested outcome? A how-to book, which as someone suggested in the comments, should be called Stealing Elections For Fun And Profit: A Practical Guide To Making Modern Democracy Work For You.
Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.
This post is ospreydesign.com’s 2000th in the Movable Type system — not as prolific as some (or even what was originally planned here), but still, not bad for three years and change. Most of ’em are even about book design, too…;)
Posted by Giles, Tuesday, July 4, 2006, at 1:53 PM.
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Big Brother Assisted by Georgians -- Yuk
Gregory Abowd, an associate professor leading the project, says the new camera-neutralizing technology shows commercial promise in two principal fields - protecting limited areas against clandestine photography or stopping video copying in larger areas such as theaters. “We’re at a point right now where the prototype we have developed could lead to products for markets that have a small, critical area to protect,” Abowd said. “Then we’re also looking to do additional research that could increase the protected area for one of our more interesting [sic] clients, the motion picture industry.”
Abowd said the small-area product could prevent espionage photography in government buildings, industrial settings or trade shows. It could also be used in business settings - for instance, to stop amateur photography where shopping-mall-Santa pictures are being taken.
You know this won’t stop there — this is the beginnings of yet another battle for control. More details — love the trumpeting (not) — here. (At least it doesn’t work with SLRs!)
Dr. Gregory Abowd of Georgia Tech, get stuffed.
Posted by Giles, Wednesday, June 21, 2006, at 5:27 PM.
Posted to Business | Ethics | Freedoms and rights | Photography | Public domain
Cover Design Competition: Results
Remember this?
The results are in. Vote for your favorite here.
Further comment withheld…;)
Posted by Giles, Thursday, May 11, 2006, at 10:29 AM.
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Cover Design Competition
Mathias writes:
I am in the process of finishing my phd thesis and it goes to the presses in the middle of May (defence in September). Our institution allows the writers to design the book covers - with rather sad results.
So to try to improve on this situation I want to organise a design competition for the cover of my thesis.
I have put more information online here.
To get more contributions I have decided to publicise the competition by mailing (spamming?) some of the blogs I read and to see if this spreads.
To be honest, I wasn’t going to post this; there have been some pretty juicy conversations around here centering around design competitions and whether they’re a Good Thing™, and thought by perhaps not giving it attention, it might just quietly go away.
However, BoingBoing has since mentioned it, generating a discussion on the announcement page that’s, well, familiar.
Interested in the competition? Want to give him a piece of your mind, as a book design professional? Enjoy.…
Posted by Giles, Thursday, April 13, 2006, at 5:13 PM.
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Preserved for Posterity
Found myself downright barking at a professional photographer tonight who had argued that restricting access to her work online was better than dealing with a few people out to cause trouble. I felt kinda bad afterwards; I was perhaps a little harsh. (Who? Me?)
I’m not a professional photographer, in the sense that I earn a living exclusively selling photographs, but I do sell photos, deal with photographers’ rights, and sell a creative, copyrighted or work-for-hire product/service that, while not as easily “stolen for use elsewhere,” is subject to a good deal of competition. Above-board, honest people and grab-your-ideas-and-undersell-you-later types alike.
Pushing your work farther and farther out into the world instead of walling it off clearly works. Foreword is my evidence.
Click through to Flickr and look at all the little notes by moving your mouse over the boxes on the photo. They’ll run you through all the stuff in the picture, including the icons, menu items, etc. (Warning: geek alert…;)
Sure, there are hassles. (Looking at new web servers [hosts] this week, for instance, so we can rebuild pages in the middle of the day without timeouts. You wondered why so few mid-day posts…?) It’s definitely a challenge to post regularly with the quality we’d all like to see — and that keeps traffic growing. Oh, and have I mentioned there’s still the rest of the web site to finish?
But it’s so worth it. Glad we can be here together, learning about book design. Whether it’s your first visit or your thousandth, thanks for coming by.
Posted by Giles, Monday, April 10, 2006, at 5:51 AM.
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Software Update
• FontExplorer X
…doesn’t work for me. It shows maybe a tenth of the previews, won’t move the files, won’t organize them, and won’t auto-activate them in the various applications (probably because it thinks they’re not complete, hence the lack of previews.)
The venerable Suitcase X1 also has one big advantage: huge preview area, small font list. FontExplorer gets it backwards, devoting more space to the font list. In FE’s defence, it can be a WYSIWYG menu, but apparently that requires that the previews work. (Unsurprisingly.) Once I have everything organized and tagged this layout might work, but have to get there, first!
I’m wondering if part of the problems I’m experiencing may be a permissions problem with Mac OS X. I want my fonts folder to be called “Font Library” and be at the root level of my hard drive. FE seems to want all the data in my users folder — but doesn’t list a help item or mention on the web site that it has to go there. No specific permissions error, either — just doesn’t work.
In short, a good first try. I’ll keep checking this one. (And, note to Extensis: I’m a licensed X1 user. Thanks for the notice on Fusion. Hmph. Your loss — I’m staying with X1 until FE is fixed. Have a feeling it won’t be too long.)
• Entourage/Thunderbird
I’ll be out of the office tomorrow and Wednesday, and have a list of things that have to get done before I leave — so in the middle of this, Enter Rage does its final face plant. “Oh, no,” was all I could keep saying. Sheesh. Bad timing!
But, after much coaxing, more than a little head-scratching, and some trial and error, Enter Rage is history, the mail’s migrated, and Thunderbird is in-house:
Installation went fairly easily — once I found this thread explaining how, except that the dragged files are already .mbox files, thus eliminating a step. Not exactly an intuitive import process, but being able to rescue 77 thousand emails from what seemed like certain death was worth it.
Now that it’s installed and working, I like it a great deal. The “vertical” arrangement — three-column panel of folders, email list, and email content — is brilliant. (And just what I want in FontExplorer. Hello, Linotype?) Junk controls that actually work, inline spell-checking, a nice “look,” and, most importantly, open source. That means, like Firefox, my browser of choice, the program is managed by people who care instead of companies that profit. Nice.
Using iCal to replace some of the calendaring functions that went away with Entourage, but the task management there isn’t great. Looking for a few tasks program with a robust notification system, if anyone can suggest such a beast.…
Posted by Giles, Monday, March 27, 2006, at 11:57 AM.
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The Search's Copyright: A Good Discussion
Tom Evslin, author of hackoff.com, mentioned not too long ago, has a good conversation with John Battelle, author of The Search — which is about Google et al — regarding the copyright warning in his book:
This warning seems directly aimed at Google Book Search, a project which intends to scan the collections of some of the world’s great libraries and make them searchable online. Now you can find similar language on the copyright page of lots of books but John Battelle is a known strong supporter of the value of having almost everything searchable as anyone who reads either his book or his blog knows.
So I emailed John and asked him about the apparent contradiction. He said the decision was the publisher’s (Penguin) decision to make but “I totally disagree with it.” Of course, at the time he signed his contract with Penguin, no one knew that this issue would exist. He readily agreed to talk to me it.
Tom also notes that hackoff.com has been selected for the short-list of titles being considered in the fiction category for the Lulu Blooker Prize. Congrats.
Posted by Giles, Thursday, March 9, 2006, at 1:18 PM.
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"Creative Nonfiction"
Had an interesting conversation with someone yesterday about creative nonfiction, a category of literature I didn’t even know about. We were discussing it because of this:
The person I was speaking with specifially mentioned that Oprah had stood behind it, but I noticed in this morning’s NYTimes that she “rebuked” the author and kicked him out of the book club. Heh.
And the cover? Well, let’s say I didn’t need the Times to tell me someone needed a rebuke…! “The sticker’s an improvement,” I can hear someone saying. Newsflash: not for long.
A customer on Amazon left an image of this title as an alternate — and I like the cover:
It asks more questions. (A million more? Sorry. Had to go there.) Not perfect, certainly, but gets you thinking about what’s inside — an excellent measure of “success” in my book.
We have this second cover to think about because someone left a comment on Amazon. Been a good trend here recently, too. Thanks.
Posted by Giles, Friday, January 27, 2006, at 10:40 AM.
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"Designers are in an explosive mood."
“Product designers are showing their angst,” the headline says, backed up by “Protests against war and politics are showing up in graphic arts and design.”
More:
Murray Moss, a New York retailer who serves on the board of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, says there hasn’t been a period of such fertile creativity since pre-World War I Vienna. That’s when radical expressionist artists shattered established notions of beauty and designers revolutionized their field, too.
Interesting, if perhaps a wee bit hyped. Read on at the Miami Herald.
Posted by Giles, Tuesday, January 24, 2006, at 1:45 AM.
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Widen the Debate
Blatently stolen from Joseph, because it’s such a great question:
Well, this should spur some debate. Would you feel comfortable designing this? Under what circumstances?
Let’s talk about it! Here or there, leave a comment. Thanks.
Posted by Giles, Monday, January 23, 2006, at 11:14 AM.
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Typography I Like Tonight
From the always-interesting Dave Gorman:
It only took three trips over two nights to get a complete alphabet of these. They’re by a graffiti artist called Eine apparently.
Hats off to Dave, the commenters who helped him score the whole set, and especially Eine. Nicely done.
Posted by Giles, Wednesday, January 11, 2006, at 9:14 PM.
Posted to Art | Ethics | Flickr | Freedoms and rights | Photography | Public domain | Type and typography | Whatever
Creatives Care
A new t-shirt from Veer, who will donate the proceeds 50/50 to the Red Cross and Displaced Designer.
Displaced Designer is a resource for those in the creative industry recently displaced by the disaster in New Orleans and the Gulf States.
In order to consolidate resources and efforts, this site is now working in collaboration with the AIGA — hopefully extending the reach and effectiveness of this initiative so that no designer is left behind.
There are so many displaced individuals who’ve lost loved ones, homes, jobs, possessions — in many cases everything. Many of us watching the tragedy unfold have asked ourselves, “what can we do?” People have responded by offering shelter, a space in their homes, jobs, equipment, advice, companionship.
We wish to help those affected by Hurricane Katrina by matching needs with offers of help. We have expanded the information requested on our forms so that we can present needs and offers in specific categories: space, gear, work, cash, school. If you need help or assistance, we hope this resource is useful. For those making offers of support, thank you.
This site is a project of the AIGA and The Chopping Block. Requests for help and offers of assistance can be made at either site. AIGA also has additional articles and resources in its Design Forum.
Cool.
Posted by Giles, Tuesday, November 15, 2005, at 12:10 PM.
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Katerina Help
Say what you want about our country, our government, our foreign policies but—without a doubt—Americans truly are generous, selfless, and kind.
Need free housing? Wikipedia has offers posted here and Craig’s List has offers posted here. Have a sleeping bag to donate? St. Vincent de Paul Galveston-Houston is collecting them for the largest sleepover in Texas. BoingBoing also has a dozen or so ideas and links for giving and getting help.
So, what are you doing? Who are you giving to? What can book designers do to help?
Posted by , Wednesday, August 31, 2005, at 6:10 PM.
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Livin' the Gangsta Life or Hey, we could do this!
Two couples in Nashville were busted this week for printing out their own UPC bar codes and slapping them on products in Wal-Mart and other stores to lower prices. Allegedly, they were part of a larger ring in 19 states that over the last decade would buy the, er, “discounted” items and later sell the goods or return them in exchange for gift cards that they’d also peddle. Authorities say that the scheme defrauded Wal-Mart alone of $1.5 million.
via BoingBoing
Posted by , Friday, December 31, 2004, at 9:08 AM.
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Harris be Damned
I’m in a snarky mood tonight — so skip this if you’re not in the mood to be … well, I don’t know what:
The photo above is of U.S. Rep. Rob Simmons, talking about Iran’s WMD program on C-SPAN. Look in the background, though: that’s Arizona Rep. Rick Renzi — and our local representative, the one you all know and love, U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris.
Need more detail? Download the torrent. (Warning: nauseating.) Oh, and they’re not married to each other — each has a spouse. Rep. Renzi has twelve children.
I’m glad to be voting for Jan Schneider. Please join me. And if you can make a donation to her cause, please do.
Posted by Giles, Monday, October 25, 2004, at 9:02 PM.
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Off Topic, again
Sometimes, you try to laugh. Sometimes, you gotta get angry. Quite honestly, however, I’m not sure how to react to this one:
Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader’s name can appear on Florida ballots for the election, despite a court order to the contrary, Florida’s elections chief told officials on Monday in a move that could help President Bush in the key swing state.
In a memo to Florida’s 67 county supervisors of elections, Division of Elections director Dawn Roberts said the uncertainty of Hurricane Ivan, which could hit parts of the state by week’s end, forced her to act.
Excuse me, but what?
I’ll update later with whether the hearing was actually held today (see the article) or blown away in the storm. Sorry to stray off topic again.…
Update On again, off again. Florida’s Supreme Court will hear the case Friday. Stay tuned.
Update, 9-18 On again. For good it seems — and the pundits are already suggesting a repeat of 2000 here in Florida. That’s definitely not for good.
Posted by Giles, Wednesday, September 15, 2004, at 2:44 PM.
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J. Will Be Happy with Me
Today I received an email from an author who saw my book cover reviews and thought I’d make an excellent judge for the contest he’s holding, in which he’s asking people to submit designs for possible publication as the cover of his novel. He’s offering $500 and publication as first prize (second and third prizes each receive a certificate and $20 and $10, respectively).
I’m concealing the identity of the author so that he doesn’t get flamed, but I thought y’all (and J. in particular) would be interested in my response.
Continue reading "J. Will Be Happy with Me"
Posted by Cheshire Dave, Sunday, September 12, 2004, at 10:33 PM.
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An Open Letter to Apple
Dear Apple:
Lately our book design business has been doing quite well and, as Apple aficionados since the Mac Plus, we get excited when new products are available.
Recently, my husband has been raving about Airport Express after visiting a friend who had just purchased one. As a result, I decided yesterday to surprise him with one and any other geeky, gadgety thing I that would be recommended to me by my local Apple Specialist.
Our closest Apple retailer is in Tampa but we have an Apple Specialist— Computer Advantage in Sarasota, Florida. In the interest of time, I decided to purchase my gifts at Computer Advantage.
Continue reading "An Open Letter to Apple"
Posted by , Thursday, September 2, 2004, at 11:00 AM.
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Dumb Question
Is it unethical for me to post works-in-progress? Should I only be asking for critques of my work after an idea has been accepted or rejected?
Obviously, I’m not looking for someone to do my work for me.
Posted by , Friday, July 30, 2004, at 8:22 AM.
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The Hypocrisy of Christians: Flannery O'Connor and Abu Ghraib
This is really excellent essay by David Griffith for Godspy.
Take Cpl. Graner, for example. His pick-up truck, still parked in the driveway of his Uniontown, Pennsylvania home at the time of incident, bears a license plate with the word Jesus and a picture of a cross. There is also a smooth stone in, appropriately enough, a “weed-choked” flower bed in front of his house, painted with a verse from the book of Hosea: “Sow for yourselves righteousness, reap the fruit of unfailing love and break up your unplowed ground; for it is time to see the Lord, until he comes and showers righteousness on you” (Hosea 10:12 NIV).
This stone is mentioned in most of the early newspaper coverage about Abu Ghraib, treated as a bit of profound irony, the kind of coincidence that newspaper reporters salivate over. How could a man with this bit of scripture displayed prominently in his “postage-stamp” of a front yard, as one local Pittsburgh news weekly described it, commit such atrocious acts? It’s an irony the secular press isn’t equipped to engage at any depth.
Such ironies were the stuff of O’Connor’s stories. Her characters think of themselves as Christians or otherwise “good people,” but their actions or attitudes reveal otherwise. Their pride blinds them to their own flaws, and only violenceusually from an unlikely sourceopens their eyes, and offers them a chance at redemption.
Posted by , Sunday, July 4, 2004, at 7:59 AM.
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Printing in China
Does anyone else have a moral problem with printing books in China?
The Chinese authorities have rejected claims by the Vatican that they arrested three Catholic bishops.
A spokeswoman for China’s Foreign Ministry said the accusation was “totally groundless”.
“The Chinese constitution guarantees citizens have the right to religious freedom,” she said.
The Vatican had claimed that the bishops of Xuanhua and Zhending, as well as the assistant bishop of Xiwanzi, were recently detained.
It said that while the Zhending and Xiwanzi prelates were released within days, the bishop of Xuanhua, who is 84 years old, had not been heard from since 27 May.
We have several devoted Christian clients do all of their 4-color work in China. Is this good business or just business as usual? Am I overreacting? Are there any book printers doing color in the US or Canada?
Posted by , Wednesday, June 30, 2004, at 7:20 AM.
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