Tag Archives: language

Encabulation ...

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 [...]

Daily Bookmarks ...

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.

QOTD ...

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

Daily Bookmarks ...

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
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