February 2010
63 posts
aM laboratory's tonematrix →
It’s like an online tenori-on. Fun.
What Matters Now (PDF) →
Cliché →
bobulate:
Seth Godin on clichés:
In printing, a cliché was a printing plate cast from movable type. This is also called a stereotype. When letters were set one at a time, it made sense to cast a phrase used repeatedly as a single slug of metal. “Cliché” came to mean such a ready-made phrase. The French word “cliché” comes from the sound made when the matrix is dropped into molten metal to make...
Trivia: Back in his heyday, Chris Burke (the guy...
chatroulette weirdness
I just had this unusual exchange on chatroulette.com:
Connected, feel free to talk now
Stranger: 春哥纯爷们
You: yes
Stranger: 春哥纯爷们
You: those are pretty
You: but i have no idea what it means
Stranger: 春哥纯爷们 楼下保持队形
You: ok, you are repeating yourself
Stranger: 春哥纯爷们 楼下保持队形
You: this isn’t going to work, i’m afraid
Stranger: 春哥纯爷们 楼下保持队形
You: you are a bot?...
Tautology (rhetoric) - Wikipedia, the free... →
In rhetoric, a tautology is an unnecessary or unessential (and sometimes unintentional) repetition of meaning, using different and dissimilar words that effectively say the same thing twice (often originally from different languages). It is often regarded as a fault of style.
Killing In The Name Of (SebastiAn Remix)
Facebook Outrage! →
ReadWriteWeb, a popular blog focused on Web 2.0 developments, wrote an article called “Facebook Wants to Be Your One True Login”. The article is about Facebook Connect (i.e. using your Facebook account to log into other sites).
Fast forward a few days. Google indexes this post. It turns out that it becomes #1 search result on Google for “Facebook login”.
Then, out of...
Scale representation of the Mariana Trench →
“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent...”
– Bertrand Russell (Source: the Dunning–Kruger effect @ Wikipedia. Related and equally fascinating concepts: Illusory superiority, Self-serving bias, and Depressive Realism)
Abstraction (comic) - NSFW →
Surreal Japanese(?) comic strip that goes beyond tearing down the Fourth Wall, in entirely new ways.
(Not safe for work due to black and white illustrated sexual content.)
Listen
Those Aren't Pants →
