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eftychia at 05:08am on 2003-01-28
eftychia at 05:08am on 2003-01-28- A poem about one of the best known spelling mnemonics
- An electrical -- not electromechanical -- "Because I Can" Crusher (the author, Sam Barros, wrote, "Why? Because I can! (Sorry, couldn't think of a better reason.)", which makes about as much sense as most of the other Really Cool projects I've seen on the web and wish I'd come up with first). Crushes a full soda can without physical contact using 22.7 million Watts of electricity (yeah, that means there are big capacitors involved).
- Don't Link to Us!, a collection of links to sites with stupid linking policies (with "stupid" being defined by the maintainers of the DLTU site, of course). For the most part they're pointing at sites which try to prohibit or regulate exactly what makes the web so much more than a flat collection of isolated documents.
- "Fool Me Twice", a story in Slate (2003-01-09) using one current news story as an analogy for another...
- "Bob Dylan: Tangled Up In Jews", which I include here mainly in case someone wants to know where to find Bob Dylan song lyrics translated into Hebrew. (I have no idea how good the translations are, since that's not one of the languages I speak.)
- Ever need to look up a particular TLA? There's over a thousand of them defined here.
- I just liked the alliteration, honest ... okay, and I'm really easily amused and it seemed to fit with an unusual lingerie link from an earlier post: Punk Panties. No info about what makes them especialy punk other than being labelled as such and having someone with punk-cred involved in the venture.
- Continuing the clothing theme ... Look, pants are dangerous! Okay, I'm deliberately overstating that because I'm in a silly mood; it's specifically about tight hiphuggers.
- The Gender-Neutral Pronoun FAQ mentions that there's actually a native English (i.e. not a neologism) gender-neutral third-person singular personal pronoun: ou. (I use "sie"/"hir" myself because those are the most familiar to me; the author of the FAQ prefers "ey"/"em", which I find jarring but suppose I could get used to if they wind up catching on.) Section 6.1 lists some papers I'd love to read, about whether using "he" as the default, inclusive pronoun matters.
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Greek Hero Revisited, by Laurel Bowman, connects Buffy to Joseph Campbell's "Hero's Journey".
- Yahoo News story about a method for looking up tunes: "It's called 'Query by Humming,' a type of melody recognition software program on display at this week's Midem music conference in Cannes that identifies a song by title and composer based on a person humming a few bars into a microphone." I could use something like that. I imagine it'd be really useful for searching sites such as Ceolas.
- Blurb about a design for an inflatable space station at BoingBoing, with links to additional information.
- Christian Science Monitor story about a schools first integrated prom ... in 2002!?
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This "Photoshop unlikely Slashdot articles" contest at Fark.com takes
abso[expletive]lutely forever to load, so I'm going to deep-link to the
single image I wanted to share (which I think I found via BoingBoing) even
though I generally avoid snarfing
images that way:
![[DASHDOT screen shot]](https://p2.dreamwidth.org/0e987d101803/109641-366779/216.136.200.194/auction/Jan/20031208934432828315774.jpg)
- So I won't forget where I bookmarked it: DragonBear's Pennsic Links (which includes a link to my own Pennsic page