December 2009
149 posts
The Construction of Instruction
A man walks into a bar. The bartender nods a greeting and watches as the man scans the bottles behind the bar.
“Er, you have a lot of gin here. Is there one you would recommend?”
“Yes sir.”
Long pause.
“… Never mind, I’ll have the one in the green bottle.”
“Certainly, sir. But you can’t buy it from this part of the bar. You need to go through the double doors there.”
“But they look like they...
Every day the same dream - molleindustria →
I’m guessing that everybody’s seen this. But just in case you haven’t. I really really recommend this.
(PS You can get out of the car too.)
WatchFestive Farts
At least four times a year, you’ll find me saying (in a fake English accent even though I am English), “Ooh Terence that [insert seasonal object] was positively ghoulish” to indicate that I think something’s being shoehorn-marketed.
If even one of you does the same, I’d consider it an honour.
Fruit Cocktail Eggnog Pie - positively ghoulish pie.
Can you find any more ghoulish...
That fart was positively festive. . .
At least four times a year, you’ll find me saying (in a fake English accent even though I am English), “Ooh Terence that [insert seasonal object] was positively ghoulish” to indicate that I think something’s being shoehorn-marketed.
If even one of you does the same, I’d consider it an honour.
Fruit Cocktail Eggnog Pie - positively ghoulish pie.
Can you find...
uberVU - no need for harsh words?
Apps that send Tweets on your behalf without your express permission suck and we should all boycott them until they die.
I had a play with uberVU earlier. It’s another one of the tracking services like Trackle, Google Alerts, Yotify and Notify.me.
What it’s designed to do is unimportant. What it actually does is hook into your Twitter account through the OAuth mechanism and then...
Text Laundering
cdixon:
Text laundering: The act of transforming text in order to confuse duplicate text detectors, for example those used by search engines like Google.
Here’s a recent Boing Boing post I picked at random:
If you’ve already made your Christmas gifts to Creative Commons and have a couple of bucks left over? How about buying a gift for the public domain!! Public.Resource.Org just ordered...
“That creative communities are alluring to the aspiring creativity maven is not...”
– How Not to Get Absorbed in Someone Else’s Abdomen « Changizi Blog
My advice: check out Changizi
“For the Grand Canyon, I can see how more and more erosion, with self-organizing...”
– Darwin in the Hot Tub, or The Jacuzzification Of Evolution « Changizi Blog
Intelligent designers and creationists - not as dumb as you thought.
