Blogdex also leads me to Speckled Paint where Joshua Tense discusses the Adbusters corporate flag debate:

I do wish that the Apple logo wasn’t included in the billboard. I’m not sure what corporate evils Apple has commited. It makes me think it’s only there because it’s a nice vector logo, easy to place in a solid-on-solid format.

It’s a good point. I think. Is the Apple logo there just because it’s an easily recognizable brand or, as was suggested at Metafilter, because it provides a counterpoint to the Microsoft logo in the top right corner? Personally, I was distracted by Speckled Paint’s link to all those graphic images of extreme computer hardware.

Discussing Stephen King’s recent announcement that he’ll stop publishing five books from now, Neil Gaiman writes: “I’m proud of him. It takes a lot of guts to decide to stop doing something that you can do and that works, when you’re finished….Not writing, when you don’t feel you have anything to say, is an art that very few writers have mastered.”

And a Sharon from Texas writes asking Mr. Gaiman about secret signals, and it occurs to me, hey, I know a Sharon from Texas…