• Uncategorical Weirdness

    L337 Katz0rz: A Linguistic Approach

    I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER? » Blog Archive A Special In-Depth Analysis by David McRaney – L337 Katz0rz « David McRaney's insightful post about the history and ever-evolving structure of "l33tspeak" and its linguistic adopted cat-child, "kitteh" or kitty pidgin, is worth a read if you're interested in how language is constantly morphing on the Internet. It also touches on the use of images for meta-communication. Also, how awesome is it that a cat can has a sudden moment of insight into its own ability to say "Hello, world!?" Moar linguinistics plz! Love me sum yummee werdz. I also need to…

  • Hot Off The Presses - Mini-Posts

    Headline Editors Are Funny

    Former Hawkeye Pierce moves to Illinois | Chicago Tribune At first I thought "What? Alan Alda is moving here?" Then I realized a basketball player named Pierce, from the University of Iowa was on his way, and a Chicago Trib headline writer was having a little fun with the item.    

  • Uncategorical Weirdness

    Lilacs

    It seems like lilacs are in the news – tomorrow being Mother's Day, it's also apparently Lilac Sunday. There was a long piece on public radio show Living on Earth yesterday morning about how climate researchers use lilacs, because they're budding and blooming earlier and earlier. At lunch yesterday, the little florist's shop at work had lilacs or was using lilac scent as a part of a naturalistic display. As I walked past, there were a bunch of deliveries set out ready to go in the hall, probably for Mother's Day gifts. It was a little overwhelming – it's funny…

  • Mini-Posts

    links for 2007-05-11

    A List Apart: Articles: CSS Design: Taming Lists (tags: lists CSS webdesign) Print all attachments from documents « All about Lotus Domino Development Project for work (tags: batch print LotusNotes fileattachments) OpenNTF.org – Print attachments with OLE Aut Work project (tags: batch print lotusnotes fileattachments) Email to Fax for Lotus Notes (tags: Lotus Fax)

  • The Never-Ending Bloga

    Using Custom Fields « WordPress Codex

    Using Custom Fields « WordPress Codex I haven't been able to figure this feature out, but I'd like to get it working if possible. This tutorial makes it sound so easy, like the jitterbug, but it plum eluded me the last time I tinkered with it. Supposedly, you can get it to do all kinds of things, but the simplest are adding moods and "Currently Reading" and such. Here is an example of what this information might look like on your post: Currently Reading: Calvin and Hobbes Today's Mood: Jolly and Happy Usage Based upon our example above, let's put…

  • Geek Out!

    The Antikythera Device: Using Science to Discover Ancient Technology

    Dept. of Archeology: Fragmentary Knowledge: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker Other artifacts included bronze fittings for wooden furniture, pottery, an oil lamp, and item 15087—a shoebox-size lump of bronze, which appeared to have a wooden exterior. Inside were what seemed to be fused metal pieces, but the bronze was so encrusted with barnacles and calcium that it was difficult to tell what it was. With so much early excitement focussed on the sculptures, the artifact didn’t receive much attention at first. But one day in May, 1902, a Greek archeologist named Spyridon Staïs noticed that the wooden exterior had…

  • Clan: McTiVo

    SCIFI.COM | The Dresden Files

    SCIFI.COM | The Dresden Files Man, I've been getting a fair number of hits for any mention of this excellent show. The SciFi Channel's page for the show has a lot of features, quizzes, interviews with Paul Blackthorne, who plays wizard Harry Dresden. There are four video Q&A's – I'm about to sit here and watch them all – but the main thing that strikes the viewer is Blackthorne's cultured British accent. Also, thus far he is reading "forum" questions on a silver laptop in the SciFi offices in New York, but NEVER TOUCHES the KEYBOARD. Knowing his character's electromagnetic…