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 […]
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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.
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
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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
I was recently reminded of Brad Borevitz’s excellent State of the Union text analysis project. This year, he’s added a tool that lets us graph the frequency of words against each other. Here’s an interesting example, over time the use of the word “freedom” has risen dramatically, while “liberty” has remained fairly steady.
Maybe […]
As part of the day job I’ve had an index built that is fed from limited web crawling and blog pings. The point is to feed a data warehouse that is used for social media research and analysis, the sort of thing you might use Technorati to do manually until you realize just how […]
In an ever-cluttered advertising world, On-egg Messaging has the ability to reach the right target at the right time.  EggFusion, who aims to place advertising on your eggs, bemoans the pervasiveness of advertising.
Bill Poser has asked “Why the attention to Bush’s language?”
For the comedy, of course.
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Like Jeff Boulter, I believe “performant” is a legitimate word. How better to succinctly describe a system as performing to expectations? This is one of the few linguistic quirks from business software development that I’ve willingly incorporated into my own vocabulary. There it joins several others that I’ve involuntarily added, such as […]
