Oh, great. Now I’ve got the damned song stuck in my head.
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A guy in Utah just got a crash course in Wifespeak:
Ad courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
Rodrigo Piwonka has come up with a clever idea: using those CD/DVD spindles to carry bagel sandwiches. I’m going to have to try this trick sometime:
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An excerpt from the article If We Taught English the Way We Teach Mathematics…:
Imagine that your only contact with “English” as a subject was through classes in school. Suppose that those classes, from elementary school right through to high school, amounted to nothing more than reading dictionaries, getting drilled in spelling and formal grammatical construction, and memorizing vast vocabulary lists — you never read a novel, nor a poem; never had contact with anything beyond the pedantic complexity of English spelling and formal grammar, and precise definitions for an endless array of words. You would probably hate the subject.
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The “Best Of” Articles
For those of you who are new to this weblog, I’ve got a “Best Of” page which lists my favourite articles all the way back to 2001.
I know you’re probably working right now, but go ahead and read it! AFter all, isn’t it some someone else contributed to the gross domestic product for a change?
As mentioned in this earlier article, Kathy Sierra (see here, here and here if the name doesn’t ring a bell) and Chris Locke appeared on CNN American Morning earlier today. Click here to see the video [9.1 MB QuickTime].
The painful bit is at the end, when anchor TJ Holmes poses asks “How can you threaten the cute kitty?”, a reference to a nickname that some of Kathy’s readers have given her.
Here another good development: Kathy and Chris have also published a joint statement — actually two independently-written statements appearing side by side — on Chris’ site.
I’m a little too busy to editorialize right now, but if you’ve got any opinions to share, please do so in the comments.
My friend Darryl took the photos I posted in the recent article, Bachelor Pads (which references the New York Times article It’s Not You, It‘s Your Apartment) and gave ’em the old Leonidas Photoshop treatment using the Leonidas heads I provided in this article. Here’s his handiwork:
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Click the photo to see the original.
Click the photo to see the original.
Click the photo to see the original.