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The importance of the humble bullet point

July 7, 2003 Stephanie Leary

I was skimming over the IMDB home page this morning, and the top two headlines caught my eye:

* John Leguizamo Weds

  • Schwarzenegger Pumps Up American Soldiers

I didn’t see the bullets at first—not the first time that’s happened on this page—and I read “John Leguizamo Weds Schwarzenegger.”

Mental commentary: “Huh. Isn’t Arnold married? Oh, wait, they’re both men. That’s not legal yet. Where’d they go to get hitched? Oh, dammit, that itty bitty bullet point is there after all.”

The IMDB‘s little black bullets are so tiny that they disappear entirely in the eye-popping blue of the news box. They ought to do something about that. I didn’t need the mental image of John Leguizamo and Arnold Schwarzenegger frolicking on their honeymoon, and I’m sure you didn’t either.

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