July 2009
“THE lie detector radio stunt on 2Day FM involving a 14-year-old girl who...”
– Alastair Nicholson, Tim Costello, Steve Biddulph and 12 other high profile psychologists, academics and child advocates, in a joint letter to The Age that has also been publicised elsewhere (Your Say | theage.com.au) (via clembastow, semisetadrift, jhnbrssndn)
I’m really upset right now.
"beer summit"
Though Obama says the “summit” part is a misnomer, I love the phrase “beer summit”. Please stay in the lexicon.
“We live in a corporate state. We live in a state that no longer responds to the...”
– Chris Hedges (via azspot)
Linguistics Lounge: Stylizing "This Fucking... →
So the first question for sociolinguists is the following-How is the band performing ‘hipster style’? Here’s a breakdown of how some sociolinguists’ proposed theories and models might suggest there is a ‘hipster style’.
Habitus (Bourdieu) - The band is replicating a manner of dress that is found throughout the website “Look at This Fucking...
“The film will be produced by prolific shit merchant Steven Paul, a tireless...”
– Today in classic video game adaptation news: Saw director to helm Castlevania movie (A.V. Club).
kbkarma:
I’ve never played a Castlevania game, but this sounds like bad news.
It’s quite simple. Set the movie in the Castlevania: Symphony of the Night time-period as Richter Belmont,...
Renovation Story
Alex and I went over to the house my family has been renovating, now that the double-dealing degenerate (Matthew Gindt of Stanley, Wisconsin) and his girlfriend (whom I call the “Gundt”) has finally been removed from the premises after two months of squatting, property damage, and raising an infant amidst a pigsty. We were to take down a wall, my mom told me, and Alex and I packed up...
Has Wikipedia Created a Rorschach Cheat Sheet? →
Yet in the last few months, the online encyclopedia Wikipedia has been engulfed in a furious debate involving psychologists who are angry that the 10 original Rorschach plates are reproduced online, along with common responses for each. For them, the Wikipedia page is the equivalent of posting an answer sheet to next year’s SAT.
Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon →
bestofwikipedia:
The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon occurs when a person, after having learned some (usually obscure) fact, word, phrase, or other item for the first time, encounters that item again, perhaps several times, shortly after having learned it.
“And then in the summertime such extreme summertime about a hundred and fifty...”
– Palin’s farewell speech (Full transcript) (via inothernews)
caro: In four words: Faulkner goes to Alaska
“Some of the insects flying had multiple pairs of wings and were...”
– David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest (via quietbees)
Word Journal Submissions →
“A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals...”
– james joyce, ulysses (via oldfilmsflicker) (via elsi)
"Godel's second incompleteness theorem explained...
[tristn note: I took a class that centered around this thereom. The fun stuff is the literature about whether the (deductive) limits of mathematics apply to the human mind. A: A human proved this! B: A machine could too! A: A machine programmed by a human!]
First of all, when I say “proved,” what I will mean is “proved with the aid of the whole of math.” Now then: two...
“He recently had a column in the NY Times vainly attacking Chris Anderson’s take...”
– Malcolm Gladwell Doth Metastasize (via azspot)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-7-26) →
Radiohead (16)
Real McCoy (16)
Fall Out Boy (13)
Anthony Bourdain (12)
The Avalanches (10)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“What IP blocks do their corporate offices have? If they’re really cutting...”
– xkcd is now blocking AT&T [reddit: AT&T blocking all access to img.4chan.org.]
“The argument ‘Jesus must have existed because so many things were written about...”
– Theo Tsecouras (via lfo) (via inky)
The Tristan Report
IN: “foodie”
5 MINUTES AGO: “gastronome”
OUT: “gourmand”
Matmos - Roses And Teeth For Ludwig Wittgenstein
...
1 tag
Walrus mates itself to death →
onionvolcano:
pterodactyls:
up-schist-creek:
As deaths go, this one gets my seal of approval.
At least he died with a porpoise. On the otter hand, a whale of a way dugong.
You walrus hurt the one you love. Oh well, that’s a moray.
One female has been whaling away. Narwal have to wait and see what might polar out of her slump.
i'm feeling bitter
A: So you really really love language?
B: Yeah, I'm fascinated by the things people say and the value they attach to them. Not quite sociolinguistics, but the culture encoded, embodied and performed by language.
A: Like what?
B: Speech variants as class signifiers, like "syrup", "mischievous", "advertisement", "caramel"--oh and "irregardless"! It's like a special, conscious grammar.
A: So what do you think about language death?
B: ...wait, what?
overheard at au bon pan
ragbag:
“…i’m not familiar with that argument, i’m gonna have to google scholar that.”
the verbification of google scholar has begun!
Word of the day (Brüno edition)
“carbicide”
“Let’s imagine, for instance, that some genius invented a reduced calorie bacon...”
– The Neuroscience of McGriddles : The Frontal Cortex (via sexartandpolitics)
David Foster Wallace, on success
Bookselling This Week: What has been the most satisfying part about all your success?
DFW: What do you mean by success?
BTW: Being accepted by a major publisher, all the acclaim.
DFW: Well there's no better feeling than working hard at something and having it come out good, even before you put the stamp on it. But with all the public stuff... it's sort of how you like people to be nice to your child. There's so much bullshit to trying to get accepted -- reading a mean letter from someone you don't even know, getting rejected. I think you need to invest way more into how it feels when you are in a room writing by yourself.
crowdsourcing
wordjournal:
noun • leveraging the wisdom of the crowds; getting someone else to do your job for you
Here at Word Journal, we love words. That much should obvious by now. But we don’t know all the words, and now that Tumblr has added user submissions, we think this is a great time to expand our vocabularies. So if you’ve seen any interesting or unique words recently, do let us know!
“War is where the young and stupid are tricked by the old and bitter into killing...”
– Niko Bellic, Grand Theft Auto 4.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-7-19) →
The Microphones (20)
Lost (16)
Talking Heads (14)
Beastie Boys (12)
M83 (12)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Number of Black people spotted at Pitchfork, Day...
britticisms:
We broke a record people! Up from 25 last year (Arianna and I reasoned Vampire Weekend whitewashed the turnout) and surpassing the 32 of two years ago. We’re takin’ over folks.