Extenuating Circumstances

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for October 9th from 17:38 to 23:29:

• Taskmasters: how Israeli intelligence officers helped inspire the look of iOS 7 –
• The shutdown is the Constitution’s fault – The Washington Post –
• The 13 reasons Washington is failing – The Washington Post – taneyhill: its not just one thing…the main reasons why washington is failing. http://t.co/Wv2zncxxV6
• The 13 reasons Washington is failing – its not just one thing…the main reasons why washington is failing.
• The end of ‘tone of voice’? – It never really occurred to me that 'tone of voice' necessitated a writing style that demanded love, and instead seemed clear that an informational/transactional/plain-speaking form of writing is an equally valid tone of voice. As ever the devil is in the details and the nuance, as opposed to the extremes.