November 2009
“If you’re looking for a job right now, your prospects are terrible. There are...”
– Paul Krugman (via azspot)
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“Historian of science Philip Mirowski calls this literal belief in computation...”
– Sack, Warren. “Memory.” Software Studies: A Lexicon. Ed. Fuller, Matthew. Leonardo. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2008. 184-93. (via carvalhais)
I like following complete strangers who use tumblr for notetaking. Serendipity at a distance!
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List of misquotations - Wikipedia →
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eush:
Cut me some slack, I’m only a fake linguist! This one is good so far, and right at my level, but I am wary of any book with Internet shoehorned in the title.
Tristn, what books would you recommend for someone interested in linguistics and language but with not much formal training?
To be fair, I only ragged on Crystal because I had to write reviews of three of his books and Language and...
“Brooks’s law is a principle in software development which says that...”
– Brooks’s law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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FYI
Home Alone is on FX all day today.
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Philip Glass Ensemble - Einstein on the Beach: Act...
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Margaret: Want to hear a joke?
Leo: Uh... Okay.
Margaret: You know why they only eat one egg for breakfast in France?
Leo: Why?
Margaret: 'Cause in France, one egg is 'un œuf'.
“It has been realized that in many languages there are principles of rhythmic...”
– Spencer, Phonology. Quoted and noted solely because eurhythmy is such a weird looking word.
Edit: QUO-ted and NO-ted SOLE-ly be-CAUSE eu-RHYTH-my is SUCH a WEIRD LOOK-ing WORD
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-22) →
Talulah Gosh (54)
Fuck Buttons (45)
M83 (22)
Deerhunter (21)
Pylon (20)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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“Suppose that Edward is married to Susan and Michael is married to Susan’s...”
– Language Log » Co-brothers-in-law
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“If I could nail any celebrity, it’d be Lily. She’s the star of my...”
– Marshall, How I Met Your Mother.
“Same sex marriage should not be put on the ballot for a vote. Just like abortion...”
– We’re Doing This Wrong [via] (via anthropophagous) (via filigree)
“So you’re saying the decade began with a self-indulgent half-true memoir by a...”
– Abe Sauer connects the Eggers-to-Palin dots. This freaking decade, man. (via maura)
Detainees at Camp in Iraq Use Favre To Tease... →
luminosa:
insovietrussiaroadforksyou:
According to a military official, detainees at a Wisconsin National Guard camp in Iraq are using Brett Favre as a manner of getting at the guard troops there.
“They know Favre by name,” said First Lieutenant Tim Boehnen, who is from New Richmond, Wis.
“One of the big words they know now is shenanigan. They’ll constantly talk about ‘Favre shenanigans,’...
“a Facebook blogger from Alaska”
– Oh MSNBC…
‘Wolf or wolf hybrid’ captured on Madison's West... →
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“Drama is like gay man Gatorade. It replenishes their electrolytes.”
– Jenna Moroney, 30 Rock
“They recently made a porn movie, this is true, about Sarah Palin, and then the...”
– Tiny Fey at Ad Council dinner, with Sarah Palin in attendance. (via New York Times) (via soupsoup) (via sarahchristine)
Texas' gay marriage ban may have banned all... →
The amendment, approved by the Legislature and overwhelmingly ratified by voters, declares that “marriage in this state shall consist only of the union of one man and one woman.” But the troublemaking phrase, as Radnofsky sees it, is Subsection B, which declares:
“This state or a political subdivision of this state may not create or recognize any legal status identical or...
Make Me Mighty →
pterodactyls:
livejamie:
This website transforms your name into something epic. I am “Captain Jamiehawk: The Arch-friend”
Empress Victoria Johnsongon, The Skyforger: Human Asteroid From Beyond the Dogstar Cluster. How did they know?!
(Also: “A total eclipse of the heart is being performed to deliver your name”)
Emperor Tristan Mahrhawk, The Astral Body, The Gloveless Spine Extractor
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I’ve sometimes day-dream about working teh Internet into my marriage proposal and how cute or silly it might be, and I now realize that these flights of fancy are in fact very bad ideas and shame on me for thinking such thoughts. I must now go back to Plan B (the 30 Rock scheme).
Context: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, :D.
link pls
nstrich: if there is no link, did it really happen?
nstrich: a koan for the internet generation
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sick day
Be it resolved: I’m not getting out of bed until Top Chef is over. It’s called resting but it feels like a challenge.
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New Mission
Goal for immediate future is to research and compose an original writing sample for grad school applications since the last paper I wrote in theoretical phonology now strikes me as spirited and hearted in the right place but vulgarly naive in some of the specifics. Thus I’ve decided to review the literature surrounding the computational complexity of Optimality Theory (OT). OT is basically...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-15) →
Crystal Castles (29)
The Monks (18)
Aphex Twin (14)
Nas (13)
New Order (12)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
WatchBoy won’t pledge allegiance
“I eventually, very solemnly, with a little bit of malice in my voice said, ‘Mam, with all due respect you can go jump off a bridge.’” (via hndrk, littlewhiskey, zachklein)
unfriend vs defriend follow-up
alexwhines sent me an article by the linguist Ben Zimmer on the prefix un- and its prevalence in recent years:
The recent un- trend has also seeped into the world of advertising. KFC is marketing its new Kentucky Grilled Chicken with the tagline “UNthink: Taste the UNfried Side of KFC.” The cellphone company MetroPCS challenges you to “Unlimit Yourself,” while its competitor Boost Mobile wants...