Category Archives: humanities

in a cool dark place

Saturday was Hayward’s hottest day this year, or so it seemed; so we went to a place where, for a fee, we could sit in coolth for a while. As a bonus, they showed us Hero (英雄), the most gorgeous … Continue reading

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another sort of language blog

In his blog Literal-Minded, Neal Whitman reports on his toddler’s acquisition of syntax.

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what do you get when you cross a zebra?

Sir George Martin’s new coat of arms

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lethally cuute

Kevin of The Smallest Minority shows off a pair of t-shirts: pink Kalashnikitty, blue Kalashnikitty

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Great English Vowel Shift II

I am moderator of two lists which received a spam entitled: Nid the chiipaast mads on wab? We gut it! — evidently from a dialect which has lost most of its mid vowels!

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no guru, no method, no logo

The Fly Bottle: Crest, Colgate, Autonomy, Alienation, Not Voting, Etc. The traditional Marxish theory of consumer culture is that the dark arts of marketing and advertising germinate within us ‘false’ desires. A false desire is one whose satisfaction serves not … Continue reading

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Great Hackers

quoth Paul Graham: But VCs are mistaken to look for the next Microsoft, because no startup can be the next Microsoft unless some other company is prepared to bend over at just the right moment and be the next IBM. … Continue reading

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