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A few days ago I had a comic about the raspberry (fartnoise) sound not being a phenome in any natural language, which Arnold Zwicky shared on the always-delightful Language Log. A reader of the site had emailed us both with a question, and when Zwicky responded I took the opportunity to thank him for the post and the shouts out, as I am not one to ( Read more... )

thatoneguy297: what was the first machine you guys had in your house?
Corey: we had an old Compaq running windows 3.x
Corey: when the name "windows" actually made sense, because everything was in a window forever
prguitarman: first comp machine? 1994 persario
PRChris: and i would endlessly play the demo games that came with it
Corey: hahah yesss
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Cliques are inevitable micro-collections of people who like the look and sound of each other. Culture is the foundational broad strokes of beliefs, values, and goals in a group of people, and a healthy culture is inclusive. It seeks out new members who evolve the culture into something new and better.
rands, on dealing with toxic people

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from a very thoughtful interview with John Vanderslice:

I think that the hunger, that unquenchable desire for art is such a beautiful and sacred thing that when it comes to peer-to-peer stuff, people are going to do what the technology allows them to do. And without embedding a Social Security number in every single packet of information that ( Read more... )

by far the most incredibly exciting thing to come out of this year's E3 for me was Scribblenauts. made by the guys who made Drawn To Life, the game where your Nintendo DS stylus is a crayon, and you draw your hero (a penis), his weapons (penises) and sometimes bridges and shit (really big penises ( Read more... )

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