June 2010
Young people 'drinking' neat vodka through their... →
It sounds insane, but countless young people are risking their sight in this new craze
May 2010
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i have to return some video tapes.: please stop. →
luminosa:
dirtylittlecity:
posting photos from the oil spill. it’s breaking my heart. ):
AND PS - IF YOU AREN’T VEGAN, YOU HAVE NO RIGHT to bitch about the oil spill and how sad it is, dog fights, wearing fur or leather, issues involving animals or environment, etc., etc. sorry, you just don’t. it’s just like “ohhh…
HURP DURP DURP VEGAN HURPA DURP.
I want to add derp to this.
#derp
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University of Arizona Linguistics Department on... →
They are of course against the horrible initiative that says that teachers with “heavily accented” English are to be removed. These are their main facts; (7) and (8) are my favorite points:
‘Heavily accented’ speech is not the same as ‘unintelligible’ or ‘ungrammatical’ speech.
Speakers with strong foreign accents may nevertheless have mastered grammar and idioms of English as well...
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planettampon:
Janelle Monáe - Cold War
I feel...
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“If weightloss were in fact quick easy and simple enough for everyone to do it,...”
– I am calling bullshit on the weightloss/diet industry in my regular blog today. (via nudiemuse) (via atoxique)
I once opened a fortune cookie that read “a diet is a list of ingredients used to make someone rich”.
“As an enthusiastic student of the Irish language, I know that minority languages...”
– Language Log: Linguist macros?
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Words wholly related: sit and set
loscheiner:
Tristan and I were nerding out- (as we often do- and the topic turned - as it often does- to language. Specifically, we were talking about the semantics of verbs. I asked him what he knew about verbs that seem to come in transitive/intransitive pairs and are phonologically similar, like sit/set and lay/lie.
My theory was that the these pairs originally had one root and that the...
Adopted children face anguish as birth parents... →
infoneer-pulse:
The natural parents of adopted children are increasingly using Facebook and other social networking sites to track down their offspring, flouting the usual controls and safeguards.
Adoption agencies are reporting huge numbers of calls from “deeply distressed” adoptive parents whose children have been contacted out of the blue.
Jonathan Pearce, chief executive of Adoption UK,...
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f.lux →
draxiom:
Adjust color tones of the computer to the time of day, so that if you were to wake and work on something at midnight, you aren’t blinded by the sudden burst of light from your monitor. Nifty.
f.unky
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“I think Infinite Jest is really good. I would hope that if I keep working really...”
– David Foster Wallace, 1996 (via thedependentclause)
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jsomers:
I read about a study a few years back that required participants to spend some time with a member of whatever gender they’re most attracted to. Each pair was required to (I think) do something slightly exciting and challenging together, talk about something significant, and look into each other’s eyes a lot.
If I remember it correctly, several of the pairs from the study...
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2010 Tonight Show conflict - Wikipedia, the free... →
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“What I like about [rap’s] kind of talking - in posh music it’s called...”
– Robert Wyatt (via tumblinerb)
Reblogged on strength of quote relevant to my interests to read later. (via raptoravatar)
Ditto.
““For social networking systems in general, I think the important “regulatory”...”
– Excellent comment by “Doctor Science” on danah boyd’s “Facebook Is A Utility” post. (via tomewing)