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Celebrity Gossip: Why?
posted as a comment on ohbusinessI once saw a magazine a coworker was reading wherein candid photos of celebrities were paired with captions in brightly colored cartoonish letters simply narrating what the celebrities were doing as if awed by the mundane actions; “They... EAT TACOS!” “They... PAY THE DRY-CLEANER!” “They... BUY CIGARETTES!” Always “they” as ( Read more... ) -
Google Wave
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Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary
(cross posted from my identi.ca account)
http://is.gd/4PKvB This literally made me salivate. I would spend $360 (if I had it) on this in a HEARTBEAT.
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What it is is the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary.
the biggest thesaurus ever and the world’s ( Read more... ) -
I love this thing.
This is simultaneously cute, sweet, and terribly effective. I love it, because it’s got all the great elements of a romantic comedy crammed into a few seconds, and it makes a solid political point in a way that’s easy for people to identify with.
It reminds me of this article from GOOD, which I initially read pretty skeptically; the take-away ( Read more... ) -
Hey, I'm actually using that identica account
Well, I’ll be jiggered. Turns out for all my celebrating of freeing myself from the terse confines of the F***book “status” bar for the lush, luxurious pastures of verbosity afforded by good ol’ Livejournal, some of the stuff I like to internet-say are only a few words long. My point of course is that I’ve actually found myself using that identi. ( Read more... ) -
Canvassers are OUT OF HAND.
There are so many canvassers (“clipboards” as I sometimes call them) around the UDC-DCSL campus that setting foot outside the building is often best avoided. I can see why people feel like walking and public transit are for losers when we have to deal with this ( Read more... ) -
Trains between IC and CR are not "light rail"
I’m definitely into the idea of using the CRANDIC trackage between Cedar Rapids and Iowa City for regular passenger service. But it bugs me that whenever the idea is discussed, it’s described by Iowans as “light rail”. For heaven’s sake, people, “light rail” describes vehicles like streetcars, not the sort of things that can share tracks (there ( Read more... ) -
Do I love this thing‽ You bet.
Guess what everyone: did you know you don’t actually have to type a series of alternating question marks and exclamation points any longer to punctuate incredulity‽
Interrobang is the name of this little guy: ‽
Cut and paste ‘im, or, according to Wikipedia, “it is at Unicode code point U+203D. It can be used in HTML and XML documents with ‽ ( Read more... ) -
That last entry got me in trouble
I deleted it, but it was a link to a social networking site that’s based on the Open Source “Ruby on Rails”. I won’t name it again, for fear of inviting more unpleasant spammish comments, but the site looks good, even if mentioning it elsewhere doesn’t. I got three comments in Japanese, one of which was something to do with florists, and one in ( Read more... )
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