Encabulation
Posted on February 10th, 2007
Ryan shared this technical video spoof:
Rockwell’s retro-encabulator is a refinement of the turbo-encabulator, which Chrysler demonstrated to the world in a 1980s instructional video, although the design dates to at least 1946. Apparently work continues.
Ryan asserted we should produce nonsense jargon-laden material like this to describe our work. Indeed, it’s odd that software engineering has little such fictional self-deprecation, but maybe that’s because our discipline is still immature enough that our real work is worse than fiction.
Tags: culture, funny, geek, history, language, technology
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Daily Bookmarks
Posted on February 5th, 2007
Links bookmarked on 2007-02-05
- MailFollowup Home Page
Adds a Mail.app menu item to “reply” to messages in your Sent Items - My Favorite Word
A collection of favorite words, some with cheeky definitions, others with personal stories. Someone should establish an entire dictionary in this manner.
Tags: art, email, english, fun, language, links, osx, shopping, software, words
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QOTD
Posted on February 4th, 2007
While I’m on the subject of Constitutional rights, here’s another from Mark Jaquith:
Racial slurs may be covered by the First Amendment, but you’re still an asshole for using them
Tags: culture, etiquette, language, quotes
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Daily Bookmarks
Posted on February 3rd, 2007
Links bookmarked on 2007-02-03
- DVI and HDMI Video Cables — Switchboxes Adapters Converters
- New Scientist: In the beginning was thebit
Introducing quantum information science, and my favorite word of the week: Urprinzip
Tags: advertising, buy, calendar, css, flash, girls, graphics, ht, humor, introduction, language, links, math, microformats, movie, music, php, physics, research, science, shopping, simple, stuff, time, toy, visualization, wordpress
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Daily Bookmarks
Posted on February 2nd, 2007
Links bookmarked on 2007-02-02
- Reliably Ignores
Google translates my site to German, then Babelfish translates back to English. This is the least disruptive “translation poetry” path I’ve found, yet still surreal. - GCALDaemon — Project Home
Publish from iCal to Google Calendar! Unfortunately, it seems to duplicate events on every sync.
Tags: anoto, calendar, environment, funny, geo, language, links, metadata, osx, photography, research, science, stuff, tool, unix, web, webservice
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