Actually, that but should probably be an and, since lack of recognizable branding is a major selling point for me. How I abominate all those swooshes and bitten apples and those little badges on the fronts of automobiles! What kind of culture tolerates this stuff? I buy brandslop* when necessary but always give it the Cayce Pollard treatment where possible. The main reason I'll never ever buy an iPhone again is that even if you remove or cover up all the logos, kids can still recognize it from the way the camera lenses are arranged or something. Now I've got some no-name Chinese thing, fully Pollardized, and feel much more at ease with it.
My new shoes are almost completely Pollardized -- the logos were stitched on and could be easily removed -- so all that remains is ARNOR written on the back.
I've been transcribing all of Daymon Smith's "ancient words" to a blog preparatory to tackling a linguistic analysis. (The main benefit of the blog format is the sidebar links for cross-referencing where the same word is used elsewhere. Today I started the ninth set of words, where Daymon's translation twice (9:2 and 9:4) references the "Arnor Stone" in contexts where (although Stones of Arnor are a thing, too) it is pretty clearly a typo for "Anor Stone."
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My Words blog had zero views when I published this post. Now, less than an hour later, it has nearly 1000 views. This post itself has a whopping 8 views. How does that work?
Glad to have escaped the walled garden of Apple? The comparative freedom of choice is why I've stuck with Android devices, even though Google is a pain.
Hrm, maybe the webcrawlers were excited to find a new site? I'll be interested to see how your analysis develops. (It looks like a suitable project for a TiddlyWiki, but the tradeoff probably isn't worth it.)
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