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02 Dec 09

The Ninja Text Generator - Let the ninja write your text - fodey.com

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27 Nov 09

Cardus - You Had Me at 'Hello'

"Once connection became commonplace, one assumes "Are you there?" must have lost its edge as the implications of its question drifted from the technical to the existential."

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29 Oct 09

speech accent archive: browse

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American English Dialect Recordings: The Center for Applied Linguistics Collection - (American Memory from the Library of Congress)

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04 Sep 09

YouTube - Lunchroom Manners The Original Mr Bungle

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03 Aug 09

The Hostel in the Forest Home

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The 5 Most Horrifying Bugs in the World | Cracked.com

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12 Jul 09

Sublime Serenade on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

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04 Jul 09

Literary Lesson: Authors, Poets Write the News – Forward.com

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30 Jun 09

Edge: HOW DOES OUR LANGUAGE SHAPE THE WAY WE THINK? By Lera Boroditsky

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Whether it's distinguishing modes of being in Spanish, evidentiality in Turkish, or aspect in Russian, learning to speak these languages requires something more than just learning vocabulary: it requires paying attention to the right things in the world so that you have the correct information to include in what you say.
I came here because of the way the locals, the Kuuk Thaayorre, talk about space. Instead of words like "right," "left," "forward," and "back," which, as commonly used in English, define space relative to an observer, the Kuuk Thaayorre, like many other Aboriginal groups, use cardinal-direction terms — north, south, east, and west — to define space.1 This is done at all scales, which means you have to say things like "There's an ant on your southeast leg" or "Move the cup to the north northwest a little bit." One obvious consequence of speaking such a language is that you have to stay oriented at all times, or else you cannot speak properly.
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- This is done at all scales, which means you have to say things like "There's an ant on your southeast leg" or "Move the cup to the north northwest a little bit." One obvious consequence of speaking such a language is that you have to stay oriented at all times, or else you cannot speak properly.
- Simply put, speakers of languages like Kuuk Thaayorre are much better than English speakers at staying oriented and keeping track of where they are, even in unfamiliar landscapes or inside unfamiliar buildings. What enables them — in fact, forces them — to do this is their language.
- Simply put, speakers of languages like Kuuk Thaayorre are much better than English speakers at staying oriented and keeping track of where they are, even in unfamiliar landscapes or inside unfamiliar buildings. What enables them — in fact, forces them — to do this is their language.
- People rely on their spatial knowledge to build other, more complex, more abstract representations. Representations of such things as time, number, musical pitch, kinship relations, morality, and emotions have been shown to depend on how we think about space.
- Representations of such things as time, number, musical pitch, kinship relations, morality, and emotions have been shown to depend on how we think about space.
- Instead of arranging time from left to right, they arranged it from east to west.
- Instead of arranging time from left to right, they arranged it from east to west.
- For example, English speakers tend to talk about time using horizontal spatial metaphors (e.g., "The best is ahead of us," "The worst is behind us"), whereas Mandarin speakers have a vertical metaphor for time (e.g., the next month is the "down month" and the last month is the "up month").
- For example, English speakers tend to talk about time using horizontal spatial metaphors (e.g., "The best is ahead of us," "The worst is behind us"), whereas Mandarin speakers have a vertical metaphor for time (e.g., the next month is the "down month" and the last month is the "up month").
- Even basic aspects of time perception can be affected by language. For example, English speakers prefer to talk about duration in terms of length (e.g., "That was a short talk," "The meeting didn't take long"), while Spanish and Greek speakers prefer to talk about time in terms of amount, relying more on words like "much" "big", and "little" rather than "short" and "long"
- English speakers prefer to talk about duration in terms of length (e.g., "That was a short talk," "The meeting didn't take long"), while Spanish and Greek speakers prefer to talk about time in terms of amount, relying more on words like "much" "big", and "little" rather than "short" and "long"
- In Russian there is no single word that covers all the colors that English speakers call "blue." Russian makes an obligatory distinction between light blue (goluboy) and dark blue (siniy).
- When Russian speakers are blocked from their normal access to language by a verbal interference task, the differences between Russian and English speakers disappear.
- In Spanish and other Romance languages, nouns are either masculine or feminine. In many other languages, nouns are divided into many more genders ("gender" in this context meaning class or kind). For example, some Australian Aboriginal languages have up to sixteen genders
- For example, to say something like "my chair was old" in Russian (moy stul bil' stariy), you'd need to make every word in the sentence agree in gender with "chair" (stul), which is masculine in Russian. So you'd use the masculine form of "my," "was," and "old."
- For example, when asked to describe a "key" — a word that is masculine in German and feminine in Spanish — the German speakers were more likely to use words like "hard," "heavy," "jagged," "metal," "serrated," and "useful," whereas Spanish speakers were more likely to say "golden," "intricate," "little," "lovely," "shiny," and "tiny."
- Apparently even small flukes of grammar, like the seemingly arbitrary assignment of gender to a noun, can have an effect on people's ideas of concrete objects in the world.
- So, for example, German painters are more likely to paint death as a man, whereas Russian painters are more likely to paint death as a woman.

26 Jun 09

YouTube - She and her cat

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YouTube - Font Conference

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BibliOdyssey: Eye Spy

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Graph of how #topics get played out on Twitter - Boing Boing

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24 Jun 09

10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job

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Have you never considered that it might be better to be paid even when you’re not working? Who taught you that you could only earn income while working? Some other brainwashed employee perhaps?
The key is to de-couple your value from your time.

Smart people build systems that generate income 24/7, especially passive income.
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- You gain experience from living, regardless of whether you have a job or not. A job only gives you experience at that job, but you gain ”experience” doing just about anything, so that’s no real benefit at all.
- The problem with getting experience from a job is that you usually just repeat the same limited experience over and over.
- The tax system is designed to disguise how much you’re really giving up because some of those taxes are paid by your employer, and some are deducted from your paycheck. But you can bet that from your employer’s perspective, all of those taxes are considered part of your pay, as well as any other compensation you receive such as benefits.
- You only get paid a fraction of the real value you generate.
- Does having only one income stream honestly sound more secure than having 10?
- You can’t have security if you don’t have control, and employees have the least control of anyone.
- And in many video games, the boss is the evil dude that you have to kill at the end of a level.
- Free human beings think such rules and regulations are silly of course. The only policy they need is: “Be smart. Be nice. Do what you love. Have fun.”
- If you can’t call your boss a jerk now and then without fear of getting fired, you’re no longer free.
- But consider that if the above didn’t have a grain of truth to it, you wouldn’t have an emotional reaction at all.
- Anger is a higher level of consciousness than apathy, so it’s a lot better than being numb all the time. Any emotion — even confusion — is better than apathy.
- Realize that you earn income by providing value — not time – so find a way to provide your best value to others, and charge a fair price for it.
- And of course everything you learn along the way, you can share with others to generate even more value. So even your mistakes can be monetized.
- As you begin to dump such brainwashing, you’ll soon recognize that you have the ability to provide enormous value to others and that people will gladly pay you for it. There’s only one thing that prevents you from seeing this truth — fear.

Random Oblique Strategies Online

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17 Unusual and Creative Pillows | Toxel.com

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19 Jun 09

The Herbivore Dilemma | Slate Magazine

Japan panics about the rise of "grass-eating men," who shun sex, don't spend money, and like taking walks.

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18 Jun 09

About | Atlas Obscura

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16 Jun 09

Analysis Creature | BEAUTIFUL/DECAY MAGAZINE

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