2008 Oct 23, 2:18I had no idea lingual prescriptivists vs descriptivists were split in a partisan manner: '... The Secretary [of the Department of Education] released a report that includes dire warnings of impending
doom...The cause of this immanent catastrophe is, of course, those pesky linguists, the libertarian destroyers of good usage who claim that, well, anything goes. According to the report, "the
language problem has now reached the crisis level and we are now experiencing a severe epidemic of bad grammar that will affect the very fiber of our nation." The Secretary added, "an alarming number
of children are suffering from the bad advice given by those socialist, left-wing, atheistic linguists and we just gotta do something about it."'
humor language politics grammar 2008 Oct 23, 1:58"The table can sense the level of liquid inside a glass, making it possible to tip off a waiter that it's time for a refill."
microsoft surface research restaurant refill 2008 Oct 23, 11:27Informative and humorous video on the topic of printer tracking dots. "Most color laser printers and color copiers are designed to print invisible tracking codes across every single printed page of
their output. These codes reveal which machine produced a document and, in some cases, when the document was printed or copied."
humor video security privacy eff printer 2008 Oct 23, 10:34Geoffrey K. Pullum of Language Log defines 'nerdview': "It is a simple problem that afflicts us all: people with any kind of technical knowledge of a domain tend to get hopelessly (and unwittingly)
stuck in a frame of reference that relates to their view of the issue, and their trade's technical parlance, not that of the ordinary humans with whom they so signally fail to engage... The
phenomenon - we could call it nerdview - is widespread." Woo, go year-month-day, go!
nerdview language date programming nerd writing 2008 Oct 22, 2:14"Everyone knows who Banksy is-- but the international streetart community has hundreds of other great artists that deserve your attention. Here's a selection of the very best."
art streetart graffiti banksy cultural-disobediance 2008 Oct 22, 12:54
Electronic devices shouldn't fail, they should just sit wherever I place them and work forever. A while back my home web server started failing so I moved over to a real web hosting service. And
this was the home web server I built from pieces Eric gave me after my previous one died during the big power failure the year before. The power socket on my old laptop has come undone from the
motherboard so that it can no longer be powered. Just a week or two ago my Xbox 360 stopped displaying video. The CPU fan on my media center died. I also want to put my camera and GPS in this list,
but the camera died due to accidentally turning on in my pocket and the GPS was stolen so those aren't the devices just arbitrarily failing.
boring personal complaining nontechnical 2008 Oct 17, 11:24"John McCain at the Al Smith dinner"
huror video politics mccain obama election 2008 Oct 17, 11:23"Barack Obama speaks at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner"
humor video obama mccain youtube politics election 2008 Oct 15, 2:53Stylish blog that looks like it has interesting cultural and business related articles and links (not just weird/humorous).
blog web advertising monthly design culture business 2008 Oct 15, 10:50Clever idea. Photo of a girl holding photos of herself holding photos of herself etc with age decreasing in one year increments per photo.
photo recursive via:mattb 2008 Oct 15, 10:47The artist Harriet Russell encodes the destination postal address of her letters with anagrams, crosswords, and other puzzles: "Despite fears of a Royal Mail backlash, Russell found the system more
than willing to play her game. The crossword edition was returned completed with the comment "Solved by the Glasgow Mail Centre". Only 10 of the 130 letters posted lost their way through the system,
some held particularly testing anagrams, others were without a postal code."
humor puzzle crossword art mail postal-system harriet-russell book 2008 Oct 14, 12:54Jason Eppink has some creative and sometimes funny projects in the form of videos, photos, streetart, and more.
jason-eppink art video image photo homepage 2008 Oct 14, 12:50Cardboard filter that turns video monitors into an array of large color-changing boxes applied to public video billboard ads: "Pixelator turns those ugly, blinding video billboard ads into art."
art streetart cultural-disobediance subway graffiti advertising nyc diy howto 2008 Oct 13, 3:26'But now is a good time to announce that we've decided to officially call the next version of Windows, "Windows 7."' No new name for Win7. That's one less thing for me to remember.
windows windows7 blog vista microsoft 2008 Oct 13, 2:21Neat geolocation API for web apps: "Mozilla Labs has announced the availability of Geode, an experimental Firefox extension that implements the W3C Geolocation Specification. Geode provides an early
preview of the same location-aware functionality that will be included in both Fennec and Firefox 3.1."
geolocation geo w3c mozilla javascript web 2008 Oct 13, 11:52"Some of the questioners said they were scared of an Obama presidency, and one woman said she couldn't trust Obama because "he's an Arab." McCain shook his head. "No ma'am, he's a decent family man,
a citizen, that I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues, and that's what this campaign is all about."
politics obama mccain article 2008 Oct 13, 10:53"This is an FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions list) for the 2008 United States Presidential Election. I need to disclose up front that I am an Obama supporter. However, with the exception of the very
last question, this FAQ is designed as a collection of factual information (such as the latest poll results) and of analysis that is as objective as possible."
via:kris.kowal politics election obama mccain 2008 Oct 10, 10:11"Once inside Banksy's pet store, you discover such things as breaded fish that swim in a large round bowl while hot dogs are living the high life under heat lamps in cages near the cash register."
banksy cultural-disobediance art pet-store nyc animal video 2008 Oct 7, 4:52"KEATING ECONOMICS: John McCain & The Making of a Financial Crisis", Obama campaign's faux-documentary on McCain's involvement in the 80's Keating financial crisis.
economics politics obama mccain video youtube history documentary 2008 Oct 7, 2:49
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