Mailbox and Dropbox

Ben Brooks in How Mailbox Can Make Me a User on the recent announcement that Dropbox had acquired Mailbox:

The Abandonment of My Morals

I can’t quite say for sure why I decided to go with this title, or, rather, what made it come to mind as the clock neared midnight last night. I had just finished The Art of Not Saying Anything a few minutes ago, and some part of my mind was bemoaning the abandonment of a great majority of the lessons my English teacher instilled within me not long ago. Namely, to avoid be verbs and contractions; to write grammatically correct sentences; never to start a sentence with a conjunction; and never to address the reader directly. Over the past few months I have slowly abandoned many of these beliefs — these morals, if you will — one by one as I continue to evolve as a writer.

A Fantastic Yet Familiar Future of Machines in Nature

“His paintings show a universe much like our own, but beside the everyday humans carrying out everyday activities are massive buildings and machines running on technologies currently unknown.”

This is exactly the sort of article I subscribed to Visual News for. Very impressive.