January 2010
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RAH RAH AH AH ROMA ROMA MAH GAGA OOH LA LA
somesongsconsidered:
“One More Time” – Daft Punk...
December 2009
“Every new concept first comes to the mind in a judgment.”
– Charles Sanders Peirce (via linglounge)
The Decade in Games
Prompted by barthel’s post, I’m going to list my favorite games of the decade. The main criteria for inclusion are whether I can remember devoting a large chunk of my time and thought to the game and whether I thought it was the greatest thing ever at the time I played it. I weigh heavily how games hold up now: Perfect Dark was great but it’s unplayable today.
Tony Hawk’s...
nsbarr:
So there’s a tech startup based at an animal farm in Portola Valley. And one day at this fledgling company, Rooster walks over to Mule’s desk.
Rooster says, “Hey Mule, do you have an update on that bug I filed?”
“Yeah, I closed it.”
Says Rooster, “Closed it? Why?”
To which Mule responds: “Cannot reproduce.”
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I moved to Chicago today
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“Only the mediocre are supremely confident of their ability. The better you are,...”
– Sir Michael Atiyah. The Princeton Companion to Mathematics, §VIII.6 Advice to a Young Mathematician (pdf).
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List of Internet phenomena - Wikipedia →
Well there you go.
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Chinese man throws bicycle at scooter thieves →
jhnbrssndn:
up-schist-creek:
They were sad at being captured, moped around their jail cell.
When will the MSM stop pedaling this nonsense?
The thieves clearly did not get the Vespa him.
“Each time the U.S. bombs a new location in the Muslim world, the same pattern...”
– Glenn Greenwald (via azspot)
“In the best of all possible worlds, art would be unnecessary. Its offer of...”
– Gould, Glenn. “The Prospects of Recording.” The Glenn Gould Reader. 1966. Ed. Page, Tim. New York: Vintage Books, 1984. 331-53. (via carvalhais)
Tongue Twisters →
givemesomethingtoread:
“For sound complexity, one language stands out. !Xóõ, spoken by just a few thousand, mostly in Botswana, has a blistering array of unusual sounds. Its vowels include plain, pharyngealised, strident and breathy, and they carry four tones. It has five basic clicks and 17 accompanying ones. The leading expert on the !Xóõ, Tony Traill, developed a lump on his...
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“First of all, you have to understand that it is not the letter X that is put...”
– Why is X Used when it Replaces Christ in Christmas?
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“Christmas is therefore a Christian holy day that, when understood properly in...”
– John Stackhouse (via azspot)
Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass - Spanish Flea
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“A language is a system of discrete infinity, a procedure that enumerates an...”
– Linguistics and Brian Science by Chomsky (via smokethenmirrors)
In which Noam puts on his theoretical computer science hat…
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[Linguistics] Guidelines for the Behavior of...
tehhen:
1. The IPA symbol for a bilabial click is not called “the cervix,” even if it really looks like one. ʘ ʘ ʘ ʘ ʘ 2. Students must not giggle every time someone says “labial.” 3. Students are not allowed to start a letter-writing campaign demanding enfranchisement for voiceless phonemes. 4. Students must remember that the IPA only covers the sounds the human mouth can make. 5. Students are...
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“I do believe that all ho’s can’t fuck with me and it seems that...”
– Language Log » that ADVERB that
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Man castrates himself with razor →
up-schist-creek:
Neighbours say they could clearly see he’s nuts.
I really don’t want to mach Mr. Occam, but seriously—how could gillette yourself do this?!
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Is there an easy way to create a zip file of an...
Question by pgwp.
If you’re using Windows, go into iTunes, select all the songs and drag them into some folder. Select all the songs in the folder, right-click and hit Send To > compressed (zipped) folder.
St. Vincent - Actor Out Of Work
And I’m...
