A dumping ground for miscellany; the amusing, the thought-provoking, the otherwise memorable.
The Indexed Phobia List confirms that “ambulo” and “thanato” are good roots to use in my zombie-phobia neologism. (And Dictionary.com confirms that “ambulo” is the preferred prefix in the phobia realm for “walking”.) Little piece off bit-tech.net on “Why Web 2.0 will end your privacy” (at least, your privacy as you know it … spime-watch […]
A friend 1 remarked: does anyone else find it strange (or even cares for that matter) that there is no bonafide phobia name for an irrational fear of zombies. there is one for vampires, werewolves, and i think even mummies. but no zombies?! i demand action! So I proposed: ambulothanatophobia The irrational fear of the […]
And so early in the week, too: who needs the NSA when you have Wal-Mart? (via Warren Ellis)
Ridiculous Fish on “Treacherous grep“… Funny stuff. “How do you do it, Ultimate Unix Geek?” (via duncandavidson.com) Live action Transformers movie with Bumblebee as a Camaro? Blasphemy! Surely a cybernetic mullet will be prominently featured. (via jalopnik.com) Hobbyist chemistry in danger? *shudder* (via /.) Rock-Paper-Scissors just got more interesting. (via B^2) Pixies songs “as performed […]
Back from Philly Monday night… NCAA Lacrosse action did not disappoint. Cortland vs. Salisbury for the D3 final turned out to be the highlight game of the weekend, I think – – but it was also fuckin’ sweet to watch UVA chastise UMass for their Saturday-borne arrogance. See also: That said, it was good to […]
Reveal – – for digital photos and EXIF data. Some portable perl (blasphemy!) in context of Pandora. Which I’ve been meaning to mention anyway. System requirements released for Civilization IV. (via Macworld) – – oh no: I told myself I wouldn’t do this again…
How NOT to Lead Geeks – – consider it a field guide for managers on what to and not to do when put in the position of managing tech Volk. David Sedaris, and the stuff we do and don’t buy ourselves – – a 43 Folders take on a D.S. piece. I can relate. “Crap I […]
Flickr goes gamma. The new interface is cool. It’ll take some getting used to (I was just starting to get used to their old pathological interface) but my initial impression has been double-plus good. Especially since they haven’t changed the overall site look-and-feel or layout (a chronic plague of site feature updates/upgrades everywhere). Best change? […]
For S-C (satori caught by Akismet in comment spam): Iron necessity.- Iron necessity is a thing which has been found, in the course of history, to be neither iron nor necessary. Once the decision has been made, close your ear even to the best counter argument: sign of a strong character. Thus an occasional will […]
Via /.: Wal-Mart Trying to Trademark the Smiley Face: Until now the smiley face had been considered in the public domain in the US, and therefore free for anyone to use. Wal-Mart spokesman John Smiley told the Los Angeles Times that it had not moved to register the trademark until Mr Loufrani had threatened to […]