Ria Bacon: editor & writer

Linguist with wanderlust,
From the hills of New Guinea to the halls of the Sorbonne,
From the beaches of Bassam to the fields of Friesland,
From the catacombs of Rome to the Blue Mountains of Jamaica.
From the heather of the Veluwe to the dust of Dakar ...

Currently resident in the Land of Sea with a small tribe of kids and Mr B.

FYI

Stet means "Let it stand" and is used by editors to indicate that the original text should be left untouched.

...in Arcadia ego is a pun on a painting by Poussin.

Contact

Ria[dot]Bacon[at]gmail.com

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It’s that time of the year again!

Bruno Bozzetto – Champion animator

This is Bozzetto’s hilarious take on how the Italians differ from the rest of Europe. I particularly like the cafe scene where you hear how many ways you can order your coffee. They know no shame in being fussy – on the contrary, it’s a sign of fine culture and good taste.

Un cappucco scuro senza [...]

Tried posting an animated gif w/o success. This one gets the message across anyway. I feel I have to confess: I bought some tomato soup, two baguettes, one Asahi beer, two bottles of Chilean wine and one of Beaujolais nouveau (heeyyyy it’s the weekend fer chrissakes!), four yoghurts, gluten-free pasta and bread rolls and that’s [...]

Sweet IE shortcut

ALT+DSelects the text in the Address bar

CTRL+ENTER (this is the sweet one)Adds “www.” to the beginning and “.com” to the end of the text typed in the Address bar.

I know, I know, autocomplete is better but I just flushed my caches this morning. My office mate had to spend five hours watching the helpdesk guy [...]

Keyboard-controlled art

I see this won a Macromedia award in 2001, well worth it when you see the way the interactivity works so fluidly with Shockwave.

This piece is by Nicolas Clauss, an immensely talented artist whose pieces are some of the best work I’ve seen on the Web. The clips are at once disturbing, moving and amusing; [...]