2008 Jul 21, 1:12"One proposed test is to add a 'not' to the statement and see if that makes any difference to its plausibility. If it doesn't, that statement is bullshit."
bullshit literature humor 2008 Jul 18, 1:50On GoogleUnique names for children. "Oh, and I have a GoogleCommon name. I share my name with so many other people that we have our own Kevin Kelly disambiguation website." To avoid race conditions
be sure to use your NIC's ID in the child's name.
name identity google search language kevin-kelly 2008 Jul 3, 11:50Another translation error. At least they're upfront about it though.
humor chinese china english language translation error 2008 Apr 12, 10:38
For Encode-O-Matic, my encoding tool written in C#, I had to figure out the appropriate DllImport declarations to use IDN Win32
functions which was a pain. To spare others that pain here's the two files CharacterSetEncoding.cs and NationalLanguageSupportUtilities.cs that declare the DllImports for IdnToUnicode, IdnToAscii,
NormalizeString, MultiByteToWideChar, and WideCharToMultiByte.
encodeomatic boring csharp widechartomultibyte idn tool dllimport 2008 Mar 18, 11:21End-of-line handling in XML. Spoiler: XML processor should normalize most newline character sequences to 0xA.
xml spec standard w3c unicode charset newline end-of-line 2008 Mar 8, 11:44"This memo defines extensions to the RFC 2045 media type and RFC 2183 disposition parameter value mechanisms to provide ... a means to specify parameter values in character sets other than
US-ASCII..."
http http-header rfc standard reference ietf mime encoding charset language content-disposition 2008 Mar 6, 11:43'The package also proclaimed that it "holds all digital cameras small enough to fit".' 'It wasn't until I got at home that I noticed the inscription, "Unit automatically becomes portable when
carried".'
humor blog article language 2008 Mar 4, 12:27A description of GeoRSS: "Geography Markup Language (GML) is an XML grammar written in XML Schema for the modelling, transport, and storage of geographic information"
georss rss feed atom geo reference standards xml 2008 Feb 18, 3:05A case study on the origins of a humorous mistranslation. FTA: "The really weird ones are apparently from dictionary look-up errors ... not just taking an unlikely choice from the correct entry, but
actually reading a different (but nearby) entry."
humor language blog article translate mistranslation languagelog 2008 Feb 8, 3:24FTA: "...Using a mix of natural language processing, AI techniques, and a massive databases, Reuters' solution extracts important bits of information from raw HTML pages. People, Companies, Places,
and Events are really at the heart of many business artic
via:sambrook api reuters news tagging semantic semantic-web web 2008 Jan 3, 12:01The title says it. This is a description of the build process, make files, and programming language syntax that is life.
geek humor genetics biology dna programming science evolution software unix 2007 Dec 28, 11:25Programming language that again works on a 2D memory field this time using black and white images.
art code language programming visualization 2007 Dec 27, 5:33A programming language written on a 2D plane with arrows pointing up, down, left, right to control the flow of execution.
geek humor language programming wiki wikipedia befunge 2007 Dec 27, 3:36Mark Liberman suggests the paper on which recent articles like "Humor Develops From Aggression Caused By Male Hormones, Professor Says" was a joke. The paper is based on determitologist's notes on
reactions to his unicycle riding.
article blog language language-log mark-liberman sam-shuster science unicycle humor bad-science 2007 Nov 7, 4:28Out of date W3C document containing stats on frequency of use of various charsets in HTML pages (in 1997)
charset encoding i18n language reference w3c statistics 2007 Oct 22, 2:36How to create good headlines and subjects for webpages and email.
blog article design email howto usability tutorial language internet writing web 2007 Oct 19, 4:10FTA: 'This letter was sent to a Russian student by her French friend, who manually wrote the address that he received by e-mail. His e-mail client, unfortunately, was not set up correctly to display
Cyrillic characters, so they were substituted with diacr
encoding charset unicode language humor article 2007 Oct 12, 11:57Examples of signage that unnecessarily makes use of quotation marks to sometimes hilarious results.
via:swannman blog humor signs english language 2007 Oct 9, 2:13Comic mocking Internet culture via the life and times of the phrase "Don't tase me bro!"
humor comic youtube irony internet culture 2007 Oct 8, 3:55FTA: "Singularity is a research project focused on the construction of dependable systems through innovation in the areas of systems, languages, and tools. We are building a research
operating system prototype (called Singularity)
microsoft os singularity windows research microkernel
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