July 2010
10 posts
Tea Party v Anonymous; Troll v Troll →
kung fu grippe: Some Long-Overdue Correctioning →
Not Verbs
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Neat idea. It’s about time computer professionals demand people stop constantly (mis)using words like, “lockdown” and “pickup” as verbs.
Me? My pet peeve is, “pedantic.” I hate when people use that wrong.
As in, “Please permit me a few moments to pedantic your harmlessly…
Or, to put it another way…
Actually this is an interesting problem. The basic suggestion...
Earth - The Bees Made Honey in the Lions Skull →
Whenever I need to get some work done, I put on this album and I’m halfway there.
Taiwan seeks to save indigenous languages →
Now hang on here.
But of the world’s estimated 300 million Austronesians - including New Zealand’s Maoris and Hawaii’s Polynesians - few can speak their language, and many languages now face extinction.
Kind of a confusing statement. First let’s deal with the fact that Maoris and Hawaiians are both Polynesians (suggested rephrases: “including the indigenous...
June 2010
7 posts
I had originally been calling Mexico and Italy for the finals. Obviously that’s not going to happen. For one thing Mexico is in a really tight situation, likely facing Germany even if they beat Argentina. Oh yeah, also there’s that thing about the Italians.
Anyway, the games as I see them from here:
Uruguay beats South Korea; Ghana beats USA; Netherlands beat Slovakia; Brazil...
How Does the Vuvuzela Work?
fakescience:
Guys it’s okay to call football soccer. We’re not the only country that doesn’t call it football. Just call it what you call it and don’t make that big a deal about it.
I like Mexico and RSA so much I want them both to get three points but a draw is fine.
Pippa Passes →
“Twat” both then and now is vulgar slang for a woman’s external genitals.[1] It has become a relatively mild epithet in parts of the UK, but vulgar elsewhere. When the editors of the Oxford English Dictionary inquired decades later where Browning had picked up the word, he directed them to a rhyme from 1660 that went thus: “They talk’t of his having a Cardinall’s...
May 2010
7 posts
Legal Decision About Signatures in Different... →
See, and you thought multilingualism was complicated where you live!
(via @Langology)
The Etiquette of Workplace Multilingualism →
This is an interesting topic, but man what non-advice. I mean, I understand the basic point that everyone should be polite and yes, it’s rude to gossip about people using a second language. But ultimately, isn’t the notion that someone is talking about you until proven otherwise ridiculously self-centered?
And hey, English monoglots, if you get listen to Spanish all day then maybe...
TROMBOON →
The best instrument ever or the best instrument recently?
Things I Will Never Understand, #1
duffell:
Sticking 30 seconds of feedback at the end of an otherwise perfectly good rock song, for no apparent reason except that you can.
Thing I will never understand: NOT doing this.
April 2010
6 posts
Summer Reading List
Two weeks left in school, starting to put together some reading material for the long several months where I have time to kill.
The Minimalist Program by Noam Chomsky
Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby
Syntactic Carpentry by William O’Grady
Dynamic Syntax by Kempson, Miers-Viol, and Gabbay
Mouseguard, Winter 1152 by David Peterson
The Moor’s Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie
That’s...
Watchputthison:
Put This On, Episode 2: Shoes
iTunes / Vimeo / YouTube Clothing Credits Funding Credits Related Posts
Makes me want some new shoes. The advice on how to tie laces made me totally flip my shit.
I love the style of this series’ production. So smooth, so classy. Way to go Jesse and Adam!
March 2010
6 posts
Ten Immediate Benefits of HCR →
As easy as it would be to just be skeptical about this bill not being REAL universal coverage, it’s impossible to look at this list and not be at least a bit satisfied. SOMETHING is getting done. Maybe too little, but never too late.
Whiskey Galöre - Duffy
Written by Eric Glad...
February 2010
6 posts
Superbowl Ads
Preface: Woo all right, go Saints.
Now, moving on, as you may have heard, CBS turned down a totally PG gay dating ad as being inappropriate to air during the Super Bowl. This was of course total nonsense in and of itself; there was nothing inappropriate for public consumption going on there, especially considering some of the other ads that did make it on the air, and the fact that the much...
January 2010
14 posts
DELICIOUS BRAINS →
Four Senators Are Awful People →
A Republican and three Democrats(!) are really bothered that the EPA is able to regulate emissions.
