August 2010
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“The term cryptophthora (secret degradation) is sometimes used to express the...”
– Side channel attack - Wikipedia
July 2010
ATTN: Tristan →
zombiecuddle:
putthison:
I can’t make you dress like a grown-up. If you don’t want to, don’t. Just remember that if you don’t command respect, you won’t be respected.
The inimitable Jesse Thorn on how humans use dress as a form of communication.
This made me think of a disagreement I had with Jackie about linguistic prescriptivism — I was arguing that calling out people (specifically,...
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Record your own accent! →
loscheiner:
Parallelbotany (my neighbor from back in northern Manhattan) wanted to know how to make voice recordings so that she could share her Oregonian with the tumblrverse.
I’m sure there are tons of voice recording softwares available. I always use PRAAT because you can record and edit sound files easily. Also, it’s free, so click through to download it (for either pc or mac).
To...
And some Long Island phonology, for Tristan
loscheiner:
Like the rest of English speakers, on Long Island we have the phonemes /t/ and /d/. I’m sure there are allophones of these phonemes, depending on phonetic context (for example, whether the sound occurs word-initially, intervocalically, or in a blend with another consonant).
However, I believe there is also a specific semantic context in which Long Islanders produce retroflexed...
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-25) →
They Might Be Giants (29)
Cursive (15)
Life Without Buildings (13)
Crystal Castles (12)
Jens Lekman (11)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
What I Did When I Couldn't Find a Job →
via azspot:
It was a bit of a shock, losing all expectations. For years—all my life, really—parents, teachers, and guidance counselors had told me that if I went to a good college and did well, I would be able to find a job after graduation that would, with a little ladder-climbing, keep me comfortable and financially secure. After I graduated in May 2009, in political science, I moved back...
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-18) →
Lizzy Mercier Descloux (32)
Talking Heads (15)
Cursive (10)
Doug Benson (6)
The Chameleons UK (6)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“Thought without symbols — life without language — it’s a cognitive reality that...”
– Life without language (via azspot)
Reblogged for Simen and for later reading.
You know how there people who are really really into shitty industrial/noise music and you don’t know why/how they get pleasure from something so intolerable and painful? Simen’s kinda like that but for...
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minor victory
Although I may be unemployed and living with my parents and geographically trapped in rural Wisconsin, I have lost 20 lbs from my workout plan, aptly named “Walk/run 20 miles a week, lift some weights and eat baby carrots as your main snack food”. First time I weighed myself the scale read 233 lbs in late May, and today it said 213 lbs. I feel a bit like a cheater since there’s...
“As far as I can make out, ‘edgy’ occurs when middlebrow, middle-aged profiteers...”
– Daria Morgendorffer in Daria 3.05 (via bingoparaphernalia)
Pot meet Kettle. Kettle, Pot.
“The essence of the typical slippery slope is this: it establishes a firm...”
– Douglas Hofstadter, “Changes in Default Words and Images, Engendered by Rising Consciousness” (via jsomers)
Life Without Buildings - The Leanover (live)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-11) →
Brian Eno (20)
Cocteau Twins (10)
Panda Bear (8)
The Cranberries (8)
Washed Out (6)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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anyone know a nice word that means “(a word) not found in a dictionary”?
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“In “Herbert West–Reanimator”, H. P. Lovecraft gives an account of a...”
– H. P. Lovecraft - Wikipedia // just seein’ what it’s like to be lovecraftian (sweet name btw — you think he ever pointed at his crotch and talked about his surname?)
jonathanbogart:
A couple minutes with Project Gutenberg and I Write Like shows that Mark Twain writes like Mark Twain, Jane Austen writes like Edgar Allen Poe, P. G. Wodehouse writes like Arthur Conan Doyle, Charles Dickens writes like Jack London, Frederick Douglass and Emily Brontë write like James Joyce, and Henry James writes like Vladimir Nabokov.
That’s right — no female or non-white...
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“If robosexual marriage becomes legal, imagine the horrible things that will...”
– Futurama - Proposition Infinity (via draxiom)