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Shark Tank: Wrong, Wrong, Wrong!
Shark Tank: Wrong, Wrong, Wrong!
05/08/2004 01:18 PMCounty office moves from dumb terminals to networked PCs so swiftly
that there are lots of misadjusted monitors and keyboards with cables
that don't reach. So why shouldn't employees fix things themselves?
"The wrong war in the wrong place at the
wrong time"
"The wrong war in the wrong place at the
wrong time"
09/06/2004 12:55 PMIt's about freaking time Kerry said this! Resolved: Howard Dean didn't
have enough influence on the Democratic candidate's campaign. Oh,,
and, yes, Kerry's statement is consistent with his vote to authorize
the war....
"Kerry on Iraq: 'Wrong War, Wrong Place,
Wrong Time'"
"Kerry on Iraq: 'Wrong War, Wrong Place,
Wrong Time'"
09/07/2004 02:02 PM"Imagine living in a world without
words. Then imagine getting pregnant,
perhaps as a result of rape, giving
birth alone, being arrested - and not
having the words to explain, or to
understand what is happening."
"Imagine living in a world without
words. Then imagine getting pregnant,
perhaps as a result of rape, giving
birth alone, being arrested - and not
having the words to explain, or to
understand what is happening."
04/13/2004 03:29 AMWrong question, wrong answer
Wrong question, wrong answer
08/10/2004 06:05 PMNew words
New words
04/26/2004 01:59 AMHere's a new addition to the IT dictionary:
laptop ballet: the movements made by a person hurrying to a
meeting, when he realizes he does not know where this meeting takes
place, and that information is only in the email, but he is too busy
or lacking a suitable place to sit down, so he ends up running down
the hallway, balancing the laptop with one hand, and using the
computer with the other.
Sometimes you also see this being performed with PDAs and cell phones,
but these are nowhere as spectacular as the full 3 kg IBM Thinkpad
version, performed in a narrow corridor in sync with 20 other
people.
Last words
Last words
07/21/2004 06:03 PMUSA Today Jul 21 2004 9:54PM GMT
I have no words for this
I have no words for this
09/15/2004 07:32 PMAxis of
Weasels
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Beyond words
Beyond words
04/29/2004 05:48 PMBarbara Walters to host a contest where the prize is a baby. Uri
Geller threatens to file lawsuit based on patent. [source:
BoingBoing]
For Your Words Only
For Your Words Only
12/17/2004 06:27 PMTo really get creative writing done, I need to filter out all the
distractions and let the words flow. I need an editor with fullscreen
mode. By Giles Turbull, O'Reilly Network
In His Own Words
In His Own Words
07/30/2004 08:59 PMA quicktime movie set to Bush's 2003 State of the Union Address .. In
His Own Words
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Words aren't even necessary
Words aren't even necessary
03/20/2003 02:11 PMI tried to pretend the war was not happening but it's not working. I'm
not planning on going tonight it...
A Few Words About The War
A Few Words About The War
03/21/2003 12:30 PMFor the past few days my TV has been fixed on CNN. I've been riveted to their coverage of
this second war in the Persian Gulf, which is simultaneously complete
and noble. I find myself continually having to keep in mind that this
is a war. Bitter reminders are around every corner, however. At this
hour thirteen coalition soldeiers, eight U.K. and five American, have
lost their lives both in combat and accidents.
In my, ironically, U.S. History class this morning, I saw a girl
near me holding a picture of some young man in military garb, and a
set of dog tags, presumably his. Godspeed to him and all his brothers
and sisters in combat in the Persian Gulf.
More Than Seven Words You Can't Say...
More Than Seven Words You Can't Say...
01/01/2005 02:58 AM
New Year's
Tradition: Banishing Words (yes, I've done this
before) L.S.S.U has been making lists since 1976, but
after all the censorship battles of the last year, they probably
should be using less threatening terminology than
"banished". Still, most of the terminology in this Hall of
Shame list certainly deserves to be discouraged, derided and
degraded.
Of course, Creative Deity Matt Groening does his own annual list of
Forbidden
Words, and some webhead has developed a cool webtool:
The Forbidden Words
Flagger.
bad, bad words
bad, bad words
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A play on words
A play on words
02/16/2004 11:58 PMComputer Times Asia Feb 17 2004 3:37AM GMT
X-Words Deluxe 3.0.6
X-Words Deluxe 3.0.6
04/12/2004 08:50 PMA fun, educational crosswords game that tests anyone’s word
knowledge.
Some words from a remixer
Some words from a remixer
02/10/2004 02:41 AMVictor Stone writes a remixer-readabl
e description on how the new Creative Commons Sampling license
compares to our standard
licenses. He also mentions that it's important to have format
specific metdata, so that search engines can find Creative Commons
licensed audio, as opposed to text, images, or video. This way
remixers can easily find sounds they can remix legally, rather than
having to wade through a mass of content.
You get format specific metadata when you choose a license and
designate what format your content is in. We'll soon launch a seach
engine that reads this metadata so that you can find works to use as
part of your own creations. Unfortunately, currently no major search
engine offers this service.
The war of words with Iran
The war of words with Iran
02/05/2005 09:14 PMTraveling through Europe on her way to the Middle East, Secretary of
State Condoleezza Rice said on Friday that a military attack against
Iran to put a halt to its burgeoning nuclear program is "not on the
agenda at this point." There are "diplomatic means," Rice said, to
resolving the problem.
New HP chief's way with words
New HP chief's way with words
03/29/2005 08:08 PMCNET News.com Mar 30 2005 12:48AM GMT
Too geeky for words
Too geeky for words
01/16/2004 10:59 AMAmazon's odd words
Amazon's odd words
03/19/2005 03:28 AMRageBoy has discovered that Amazon seems to be rolling out a feature
that shows you for any particular book which phrases in it are
"statistically improbable." For example, Chris' own Gonzo Marketing
uses the phrase "public journalism" and "market advocacy." Obviously
those are not phrases unique to Chris' book, so Amazon is doing some
sort of statistical analysis to find phrases that have some prominence
within a book and across books. Fascinating. Unfortunately, apparently
you need to be using the Safari browser to see this on Amazon. Or
perhaps you need to be taking the same drugs as RB. Either...
list of words
list of words
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100,000 words in your pocket
100,000 words in your pocket
03/26/2005 07:58 PMWhen the iPod was unveiled in November 2001, there were at least a few
visionaries who accurately predicted it would change the way we listen
of music. When the iTunes Music Store was launched, many said it would
change the way we buy music. When GarageBand was demoed, at least
three people wrote that it would change the way we make music.
However, when the shuffle dropped, no one said it would change the way
we listen … to books.
But maybe it will.
In lieu of actual books, my hometown library has begun to rent out
shuffles preloaded with audiobooks, presumably in an effort to keep up
with the changing times. In this, the age of quick information and
instant gratification, libraries have gone the way of betamax and the
laserdisc, lost in the digital shuffle (no pun intended).
So what if libraries could turn digital, too, along with colleges,
newspapers and anything else that gets written down?
Of course, the written, printed word will never be replaced, but the
21st century's attention span (or lack thereof), has forced authors
and journalist to write shorter, punchier works — blogs have replaced
longer investigative pieces; tabloid-sized newspaper have become more
popular than traditional, broadsheet formats; and even CNN has changed
their format to cut down on the length of its program blocks.
Last semester, Duke University positioned itself firmly on the cutting
edge by supplying its incoming freshmen students with iPods "to
facilitate the use of information technology in innovative ways within
the classroom and across campus," and it seems to be working (though
several were likely smashed last night after the Blue Devils’ loss to
Michigan State in the NCAA tournament).
However successful, though, schools have reservations about accepting
the iPod as a reading tool, largely due to its reputation as a popular
music player. But with the 1GB shuffle, as opposed to the 20GB iPod,
storage options are significantly lessened, making it a much more
desirable choice for academic institutions.
Audiobooks have certainly become more popular since the iTunes Music
Store began selling them, and if a public library in Levittown, N.Y.,
can see that, I’m quite certain that major metropolises will catch on,
assuming they haven’t already.
The digital revolution is greater than music and bigger than the iPod
itself, and perhaps Apple needs to change its "songs in your pocket"
campaign to reflect the changing times,
Perhaps: Life is a page-turner.
glittery words
glittery words
12/11/2003 07:26 PMincandescent glowing, beaming, brilliant, intense, luminous, radiant,
red-hot, shining, white-hot brightness,glistening, glittering,
glowing, sparkling, glittery, sparkly It's a good day...
X-Words Deluxe 3.0
X-Words Deluxe 3.0
12/10/2003 04:18 PMA fun, educational crosswords game that tests anyone’s word knowledge.
making up the words
making up the words
05/04/2004 01:59 PMa brief and compelling history of constructed languages
TPM on the importance of words
TPM on the importance of words
04/15/2004 10:30 AM
This is precisely the sort of inane mumbojumbo that will --
perhaps literally -- get us all killed. ...The importance of words
is a conceit of wordsmiths, certainly. But they are important --
especially when they bleed through into thought and action, which
happens more often than you'd think.,
TPM is becoming almost
too widely-read to be postworthy, but Josh really puts things into
perspective with this post.
For an example of what all this jingoistic gibberish can result in,
see the
post below it.
250,000 Words of Wrongdoing
250,000 Words of Wrongdoing
07/31/2004 12:27 AMNotProud contributes to the
Maury Povichication of the Internet by soliciting anonymous
confessions, like one wife's explanation of where she learned that new
finger technique.
Numbers to words with PHP
Numbers to words with PHP
06/30/2004 02:34 PMCNET Jun 30 2004 4:51PM GMT
Objective words
Objective words
08/27/2004 01:37 PMAccording to Editor and Publisher today: Two days ago, in a front page
news article, two New York Times reporters referred to the Swift Boat
charges as "mostly unsubstantiated." The paper went a step further
this morning on the front page, when reporter Elizabeth Bumiller
flatly called the charges "unsubstantied," without a qualifier, in the
first sentence of her story on the resignation of the national counsel
for President Bush. Other newspapers were not nearly as bold today...
So long as we have to choose words for sentences, objectivity is
impossible....
Words that I don't care about*
Words that I don't care about*
06/20/2004 12:06 AMRSS, Atom, Typepad, Movable Type, Blogger, blogs, weblogs, XHTML,
software, Google, feed, any number like "2.0" etc., and computer.
* Right now, with the caveat that maybe in the future I will care
about them again but maybe not.
Naked Words
Naked Words
06/10/2004 09:03 PM
Naked body
letters. Um... letters made out of naked bodies. Obviously not
safe for work, but really more artsy and "nude" than even
erotic.
K, T
and C are particularly nice, for example.
Flip Words 1.0
Flip Words 1.0
06/09/2004 08:55 PMClick on letters to make words and solve familiar phrases.
"The Words Speakers Use"
"The Words Speakers Use"
09/04/2004 08:06 AMThe missing 997 words
The missing 997 words
05/25/2004 06:55 AM
The power of a picture to evoke a feeling and convey a meaning more
elegantly and more efficiently than mere words is, especially in these
times, awe inspiring. One of the reasons I enjoy illustrating many of
my entries with photos is due to their ability to describe my subject
far more completely and without bias than I can. In the wake of the
Iraqi prison torture photos I have been waiting and hoping for an
explanation of how people could do this, take photos of it and display
them proudly on their PC. Regardless of all the rhetoric about 'this
is war' or 'but they attacked first' or 'they beheaded an American', I
want to understand how anyone and everyone who knew about it and
participated in it could follow their orders so completely that they
went an extra mile and posed for pictures in which they exuded a pride
one usually only sees in game hunter photos including the dead carcass
of the one that didn't get away.
Being an American abroad in a country that is neither NATO or
supplying combatant troops to Iraq amplifies my feelings of betrayal
by my own country and the scrutiny by the rest of the world who don't
wonder at the news since they've known all along that we're just a
bunch of thugs who frequently break or refashion the rules of
engagement to suit our whims. I haven't been proud to be an American
in so many years that it seems pointless to try to count them, but
this is a new low. Much of America, in a collective white trash
playground yawp, will rebutt the outrage by saying something ignorant
like "War is hell" or "We saved them from Saddam" while forgetting
that the whole exercise was to liberate Iraq, not take over the
country and pick up where Saddam left off at Abu Ghraib. Who knew
about this and why did it take so long to hit the press? There are a
lot of troops over there and a number who have returned already. Why
aren't we asking them to stand up and testify? I know a few people
serving in Iraq, one of whom was even an MP in or near Baghdad, and
every day I resist the urge to send them an email with one line:
Did you know? I suppose I don't because I'm afraid that
all of them will say yes and I don't know that I have a response to
that which wouldn't sound confrontational and accusatory. Of course
they knew.
The most disturbing part of the photos is the gloating and posing by
the soldiers, but there was something oddly familiar about them, too,
that I just couldn't place. Fortunately, Susan Sontag has reminded me
why in
What Have We Done?":
So, then, the real issue is not the photographs but what the
photographs reveal to have happened to "suspects" in American custody?
No: the horror of what is shown in the photographs cannot be separated
from the horror that the photographs were taken - with the
perpetrators posing, gloating, over their helpless captives. German
soldiers in the second world war took photographs of the atrocities
they were committing in Poland and Russia, but snapshots in which the
executioners placed themselves among their victims are exceedingly
rare. (See a book just published, Photographing the Holocaust by
Janina Struk.) If there is something comparable to what these pictures
show it would be some of the photographs - collected in a book
entitled Without Sanctuary - of black victims of lynching taken
between the 1880s and 1930s, which show smalltown Americans, no doubt
most of them church-going, respectable citizens, grinning, beneath the
naked mutilated body of a black man or woman hanging behind them from
a tree. The lynching photographs were souvenirs of a collective action
whose participants felt perfectly justified in what they had done. So
are the pictures from Abu Ghraib.
If there is a difference, it is a difference created by the
increasing ubiquity of photographic actions. The lynching pictures
were in the nature of photographs as trophies - taken by a
photographer, in order to be collected, stored in albums; displayed.
The pictures taken by American soldiers in Abu Ghraib reflect a shift
in the use made of pictures - less objects to be saved than evanescent
messages to be disseminated, circulated. A digital camera is a common
possession of most soldiers. Where once photographing war was the
province of photojournalists, now the soldiers themselves are all
photographers - recording their war, their fun, their observations of
what they find picturesque, their atrocities - and swapping images
among themselves, and emailing them around the globe.
I've seen some of those pictures from the age of lynching as a sport
and they are every bit as repellent as the ones from Abu Ghraib. It's
pretty sad to think that, in spite of exterminating 6 million people
during a war, the Nazi's didn't pose with piles of skulls like a game
fisherman who just hauled in a great catch, no, they apparently still
had some shred of decency left somewhere. They even had fine Leica
cameras to document it with, not some crappy, grainy mobile phone
camera. I mean, what in the fuck is going on here? Baseball, Apple Pie and
Tortue: The American Way makes an attempt to put some of the
blame where it belongs, on Americans. Why is America behaving like
it's the only damn country who ever sustained an attack by terrorists
and are lashing out as though rounding up all the people in Iraq and
torturing them is going to either stop terrorism or elicit good will
from those who aren't planning to bomb the US?
As someone who isn't living in the back patting, thumbs up, alrighty
let's kill some terrorists enclave of the continental US, I'll gladly
inform those who are that the only thing that is working, is making
those of us with US passports feel even more exposed, more ashamed and
desperate to not be mistaken as an American. We keep waiting and
watching for some sign, some faint hope that the people of America
will find someone to rally around and march on Washington and riot in
the streets. I suppose we'll be waiting until the Wal-Mart runs out of
cheap crap to buy. America is a country of sheep who follow orders,
obediently consume and optimistically hope that no matter if they sit
on the couch and do nothing that everything will turn out alright.
Optimism. Always.
They say a picture is worth 1,000 words and the only words I've been
getting from them are "Fuck the World." I want the other 997 words
explaining how in the hell it happened, continued to happen, pictures
made it onto screensavers and everyone just watched and 'followed
orders'. I want to know this as it's the same thing that happened with
Hitler's willing executioners. How is it that the US is the arbiter of
democracy and truth? I want those 997 words that the pictures were at
a loss to explain.
Borrowed words
Borrowed words
08/08/2004 03:45 AMI have so much I want to say, so many stories, images, proverbs, etc.
But the words aren't good enough,...
Words, not bullets
Words, not bullets
08/16/2004 10:05 AMThe long-awaited national conference begins in Baghdad despite a
dangerous security situation.
Silmarillion in 1,000 words
Silmarillion in 1,000 words
04/22/2004 12:03 PMThe Silmarillion is a dense book chronicling the minutest minutae of
Tolkien's Middle Earth. Reading it is something of an accomplishment
in itself -- but now you can fake it, thanks to The Silmarillion in
1,000 Words.
VALAQUENTA:
MANWE: I'm in charge!
VARDA: I'm Manwe's spouse. And the queen of the stars!
NAMO: I do death and fate. They call me Mandos.
VAIRE: I'm Namo's spouse. I weave things.
IRMO: I have gardens. They call me Lorien.
ESTE: I'm Irmo's spouse. I take care of the gardens.
YAVANNA: I make things grow.
NIENNA: I'm sad.
ULMO: I live in the ocean.
AULE: I'm Yavanna's spouse. I've got a great big hammer! I made
dwarves.
NESSA: I dance.
OROME: I hunt!
VANA: I'm Orome's spouse. I make living things happy.
TULKAS: I'm strong. I'm Nessa's spouse. I got here last.
MELKOR: I'm bad, momma, I'm ONE BAD MUTHA-
TULKAS: Grar.
MELKOR: Um. Yeah. Hiding now.
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