The grey zone is where I want to live. Islamic State hates it, that place between black and white, where nothing is ever either/or and everything is a bit of both. Those who have studied the organisation tell us “the grey zone” – Isis’s phrase – is high on the would-be warriors’ to-eradicate list, along with all those other aspects of our world that so terrify them: women, statues of the past, the pleasures of the present.
The conference kicks off again at 9am on Sunday. I start with Vulvanomics, a session on what exactly we should call our ... bits. We all groan as the speaker, Professor Emma Rees, reveals that the Oxford English Dictionary defines the clitoris as a kind of inferior penis.
Now what I find really strange, baffling, and I have to say depressing, is that that brave new world of the 50s and 60s, where women were an equal part of this exciting technology revolution, has changed and become something quite different. Even me, someone described the other day as a “dotcom dinosaur”, even I thought – aged 25 in 1997 – when we started Lastminute.com, that this was going to be an incredible revolution, that part of the power and the excitement of the internet was that it was going to be a whole load of new voices, a whole lot of different people, a democratising force, something that could perhaps put equality of all kinds at the heart of its new and rapid industrial rise.
Like so many foreign policy realists, I am still hoping to wake up and discover that the past decade and a half of Middle East shitstormery was all just Carrie Mathison’s bad dream – some kind of psychiatric episode brought on by a dispensing error with her meds.
ZWJ Sequences. Zero Width Joiner sequences are a strange beast. They basically come into the world when a vendor decides to introduce one, and with no formal approval required, what we have seen in 2015 has been: * Apple releases an iOS update with new ZWJ emojis
ZWJ Sequences. Zero Width Joiner sequences are a strange beast. They basically come into the world when a vendor decides to introduce one, and with no formal approval required, what we have seen in 2015 has been: * Apple releases an iOS update with new ZWJ emojis
ZWJ Sequences. Zero Width Joiner sequences are a strange beast. They basically come into the world when a vendor decides to introduce one, and with no formal approval required, what we have seen in 2015 has been: * Apple releases an iOS update with new ZWJ emojis
As the situation was developing, a supervisor from Bayview Station gave instructions via police radio that, if possible, officers should attempt to create time and distance from the suspect. As the suspect had already demonstrated that he was a danger to others by having stabbed an earlier victim, the officers could not allow him room to harm anyone else.
i guess it's that this was radiobait, by making shorter and more conventional songs they get more radio play so people have heard them more so they like them more just from recognition.
Finland's emoji, then, are not real emoji. They are something far more nefarious: Efauxji. They are mere images masquerading as glyphs, pretenders to the emoji throne. ... Let us foreclose the word "emoji" off to companies seeking to make emoji more commercialier than they already are. Let us call these efauxji by their real name: fake AIM icons.
Drone operators refer to children as “fun-size terrorists” and liken killing them to “cutting the grass before it grows too long,” said one of the operators, Michael Haas, a former senior airman in the Air Force.
On October 1st, Apple filed for a smart ring patent. The tech giant is the latest to move into ring-top digital devices, which have recently been launched by start-ups from Japan to the US and the Nordics.
As startups gather in Helsinki for the annual Slush event, one of the fastest growing areas on the scene is the health and wellness sector. Within that growing category, digital health and wellbeing wearables are shifting from wrist-top to ring-top, with two Finnish companies poised to make their mark.
As startups gather in Helsinki for the annual Slush event, one of the fastest growing areas on the scene is the health and wellness sector. Within that growing category, digital health and wellbeing wearables are shifting from wrist-top to ring-top, with two Finnish companies poised to make their mark.
On October 1st, Apple filed for a smart ring patent. The tech giant is the latest to move into <b>ring-top</b> digital devices, which have recently been launched by start-ups from Japan to the US and the Nordics.
The problem is that the artist/writers who can be said to be “electronic writers” are coming at it from different angles. Some have emerged from what is often called the “art world,” even though the most salient example of this, the artist group Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, turned to Flash (their preferred programming environment) and the internet merely as a way to get their writing out. YHCHI first started posting their works to the web in the early ’00s, when the 56k modem was the norm, and the speediness with which their lightly animated texts zinged over the web — in contrast to the often image-heavy work of other net artists — along with the humor of their work (“Cunnilingus in North Korea” is the title of one of their more notorious pieces), the caffeinated jazz soundtracks they used, and the general good writing of their work soon brought them gallery and museum commissions.
I’ve been working for the past several years to find a way to discuss what has come to be known as “electronic literature” — it’s a creaky phrase that doesn’t survive parsing, hence the wavering between this term, “new media writing,” “digital literature,” etc. — in a way that is neither naively celebratory, presuming that computers will change writing the way DNA testing has changed crime television, nor overly technical, branching off into deep theoretical territory that seems, long before hindsight, to have nothing to do with literature or digital technology, not to mention graphic design, information architecture, film/photography, and video games, all of which at times seem to be relevant discourses.
Volkswagen confirmed to the Associated Press on Tuesday that the “auxiliary emissions control device” at issue operates differently from the “defeat” software included in the company’s 2009 to 2015 models and revealed last month.
Volkswagen confirmed to the Associated Press on Tuesday that the “auxiliary emissions control device” at issue operates differently from the “defeat” software included in the company’s 2009 to 2015 models and revealed last month.
But more aggravating even than this are the forums, summits, breakout sessions and seminars on “digital literature” run by exceedingly well-meaning arts people who can talk for hours about what the future might be for storytelling in this new technological age – whether we might produce hyperlinked or interactive or multi-stranded novels and poems – without apparently noticing that video games exist. And they don’t just exist! They’re the most lucrative, fastest-growing medium of our age. Your experimental technological literature is already here; it’s the noise you’re trying to get your children to turn down while you pen your thoughts about the future of location-based storytelling.
The chief content officer of the magazine, Cory Jones, said the magazine would be more accessible and more intimate, admitting: “Twelve-year-old me is very disappointed in current me. But it’s the right thing to do.”
"The times speak for themselves and growing increasingly more dangerous," says another. "Where else can we go when the inevitable SHTF?" (SHTF means "shit hits the fan," prepper slang for a doomsday scenario.)
Behrens sees America's preppers as a new twist on apocalyptic fears of the 1950s brought on by the threat of nuclear war. He believes that American policies and economic trends, along with the proliferation of social media—where the like-minded can easily network—are stoking new end-times obsession. What he describes resonates with a term coined in the 90s by journalist Michael Kelly that is coming back into vogue: "fusion paranoia," where conspiratorial worldviews get cobbled together from a mishmash of sources from across the political spectrum. Prepping can also be linked to the rise of libertarian strains of thought in American life that hold that the government is unable to properly address social and ills, or that any attempt on its part to do so would qualify as tyranny. It's a philosophy that at its most stark replaces love thy neighbor with a mystical faith in self-interest. Hiding in a bunker as the rest of humanity falls apart because they failed to prepare as you did is, in some ways, the ultimate libertarian fantasy.
Those who make it their business to equip themselves for a civilization-ending mega-disaster—a.k.a. preppers—are sometimes stereotyped as wild-eyed tinfoil hat wearers who live outside of society, but Vicino caters to survivalists whose fears are backed up by money. The San Diego businessman is gunning to be the vanguard of a multibillion-dollar industry. If we're to follow the entrepreneur's logic, the rich don't live on the same scale as ordinary people in today's society—why should that change after the end of the world?
The system simultaneously performs “liveliness checks” that prevent the spoofing of a photo or video animation of a face. Within milliseconds, results are returned with a significant degree of accuracy and confidence.
The generation that brought the obsession of snapping facial photos, uploading to social media channels and terming it “selfies” has unknowingly launched a new platform of cyber security for the world, a kind of biometric termed, “pay with your face.” This is a fitting legacy for millennials, who impart knowledge one click at a time.
In the explosive business of controlled demolition, a building that doesn’t go down in the way it was supposed to is known as a “standup”. And on Sunday, Glasgow got a double act as mortifying as the Krankies when thousands gathered to watch as the six remaining tower blocks of the historic Red Road flats were razed to the ground. As the dust settled and the two-year clear-up was pondered, it became clear. Two were still partially standing.
PALO ALTO, Calif.—An increasing number of electric-vehicle driving employees at Silicon Valley companies are finding it hard to access car-charging stations at work, creating incidents of "charge rage" among drivers...
Some Valley companies have already taken steps toward alleviating charge rage in the workplace.
Silicon Valley sees shortage of EV charge stations...
The company is drafting guidelines for EV-driving employees.
ChargePoint, which operates a large EV-charging network, says companies should provide one charging port for every two of their employees' electric vehicles...
So, the company set up an EV user distribution list and a shared calendar for booking time at the charging stations.
The competition has led people to judge one another’s cars and which ones deserve charging priority. Owners of all-electric cars see themselves as most entitled to the chargers, since they have no Plan B. One rung down are “plug-in hybrids,” which use electricity but also can use gas, followed by hybrids, and then two groups for which the owners of pure electric cars reserve particular disdain: gas cars and, perhaps surprisingly, Teslas. (The 00,000 Teslas, as much as three times the cost of other plug-ins, have a range of several hundred miles and so, theoretically, do not need the charge spots.)
The rudeness is not just among drivers of electric cars. By many accounts, owners of gas-powered cars often take up desirable parking and charging spots that companies and cities reserve for electric cars. This habit has inspired the spread of a nickname: ICE Holes. (ICE stands for internal combustion engine.)
Most people charge at home (using an electrical outlet) but also want to use public chargers, in part because the cars have a limited range — typically 80 miles. On top of this “range anxiety,” as it is called, drivers like the idea of getting a free or low-cost charge at a public station.
Apple just hired some of Tesla’s most important engineers. Do you have to worry about a new competitor?
Important engineers? They have hired people we’ve fired. We always jokingly call Apple the “Tesla Graveyard.” If you don’t make it at Tesla, you go work at Apple. I’m not kidding.
Watching the Fifa cockocracy fall to pieces is a beautiful game in itself...
Luckily, no real ladies are involved in any of this – Fifa has long served as one of Earth’s leading cockocracies. Blatter hasn’t yet tried to argue that the US attorney general, Loretta Lynch, should wear tighter shorts while indicting him, but the ratio of male to female parts in this drama is 50:1. Or 1:3000, if you count the prostitutes.
Watching the Fifa cockocracy fall to pieces is a beautiful game in itself...
Luckily, no real ladies are involved in any of this – Fifa has long served as one of Earth’s leading cockocracies. Blatter hasn’t yet tried to argue that the US attorney general, Loretta Lynch, should wear tighter shorts while indicting him, but the ratio of male to female parts in this drama is 50:1. Or 1:3000, if you count the prostitutes.
A battle of wills is being played out on Bristol’s ledges and benches. Skatestoppers – or “skater-haters”, as they are sometimes called – are metallic knobs attached to a city’s street furniture to prevent skateboarders from using them for tricks. Originating in America, they began appearing in Bristol more than 10 years ago. A leading manufacturer markets them as devices that prevent urban spaces from becoming “a practice ground for disruptive and destructive activity”.
A battle of wills is being played out on Bristol’s ledges and benches. Skatestoppers – or “skater-haters”, as they are sometimes called – are metallic knobs attached to a city’s street furniture to prevent skateboarders from using them for tricks. Originating in America, they began appearing in Bristol more than 10 years ago. A leading manufacturer markets them as devices that prevent urban spaces from becoming “a practice ground for disruptive and destructive activity”.
Addressing a rally in Manchester alongside Corbyn to coincide with the Conservative party conference, Terry Pullinger, deputy general secretary of Communication Workers’ Union (CWU), said Corbynmania “almost makes you want to celebrate the fact Labour lost the election”.
So how did Volkswagen pull it off? Simple: it inserted what programmers would call a “neat hack” into the engine-control unit (ECU) of its cars. The ECU is a purpose-designed computer that controls the engine. (All cars have them nowadays: analogue motoring is so yesterday, don’t you know.) Since 2009, VW’s ECUs have been running software that monitors movements of the steering wheel and pedals.
So how did Volkswagen pull it off? Simple: it inserted what programmers would call a “neat hack” into the engine-control unit (ECU) of its cars. The ECU is a purpose-designed computer that controls the engine. (All cars have them nowadays: analogue motoring is so yesterday, don’t you know.) Since 2009, VW’s ECUs have been running software that monitors movements of the steering wheel and pedals.
A seventeenth-century recipe book. Twelve hours. 208 pages. And transcribers from around the world.
Our goal? Using the Folger Shakespeare Library’s online transcription platform, we’ll collaboratively produce a searchable transcription of Rebeckah Winche’s recipe book in twelve hours.
On 7 October, please join the Early Modern Recipe Online Collective (EMROC) for our first annual Transcribathon.
<blockquote>Linear TV: A television service that requires the viewer to watch a scheduled TV program at the particular time it’s offered, and on the particular channel it's presented on. Synonyms include time-and-channel based TV, appointment-based TV, and traditional television. (Source: ITV Dictionary.) Non-linear TV comprises on-demand formats as well as programs that don’t emanate from a network channel, also known as web TV and digital media.</blockquote>
We might instead term these accounts bespoke bots; quite often such bots are coded, created and credited to an individual creator, and frequently may be distinguished (contra spam bots) by their novelty – in subject matter, behaviour or technique. After Tolstoy: 'Spammy bots are all alike; every unspammy bot is unspammy in its own way.' These bespoke Twitter bots may trace a lineage to earlier works of computational media such as Joseph Weizenbaum's 1960s software psychotherapist ELIZA and her descendants, designed for humans to engage with their software through (typed) conversation. These bots enact personality, often attempting or playing at 'passing' for human.
Most consider our Tenderloin neighborhood to be a vast black hole of no-go in downtown San Francisco.
Truth be told, there are certainly a couple of blocks full of downright nasty that neither you nor I should make a habit of frequenting. But beyond those unfortunate social potholes, the Tenderloin is a rich neighborhood with a great wealth of small areas each with their own character.
Since The Bold Italic popularized the term “microhood,” it's only fitting to break down the Tenderloin by the sum of its parts. So, presented here is the “Tenderloin Microhoods Map.” While some of it is just for fun, a whole lot of it is most definitely true. Read up and come on down and grab a drink in The Gimlet! There’s sure to be some tasty dining in Delicious Fields afterward.
We live in two worlds at once. There’s a human world where we call places by their addresses and names. Then there’s another world for computers in which every place is represented through geographic coordinate systems like latitudes & longitudes or geohashes. Dozens of times every day we cross that boundary between the world of names and the world of coordinates and it’s all facilitated by a process called geocoding. In the coordinate world, it’s easy to do things like find things nearby, measure distances and correlate data, but to get there takes a leap through a boundary—and every time that boundary is crossed there’s a little toll paid. Do it enough and it adds up. But it also comes with all manner of restrictions of how you can see the world.
Reflecting some of this history, the Oxford student dining club that bore Gaveston’s name had honorary positions that included Catamite and Master of Debauchery. Membership of the society was limited to 13. In 1981, none of my informants mentioned this week’s fantastical disclosures about dead pigs’ heads and an initiation ritual that required a new member, David Cameron, to stick his penis into one. Nevertheless, porkers were a part of the Oxford student conversation 35 years ago. A favourite phrase was “hog-whimpering”, as in “hog-whimpering drunk”.
Rupert Soames, for example. He was my most joyous interviewee and a splendidly unguarded one (see panel), so much so that a merchant bank ended its interest in hiring him soon after the piece appeared. It was Soames who introduced me to the phrase “hog-whimpering” and Soames who, in a few simple sentences, delivered a beautifully compressed history of the recent changes in Oxford values. (He was, after all, Churchill’s grandson.) “You see,” he said, “students went through the 60s thinking the world was organised in a bad way and that they could do something about it. Absolutely wrongly, as it turned out. Now people take themselves less seriously, which is very, very attractive. Oxford’s a charmed existence before you go out into the world and take a job of high responsibility. Also, it’s a wonderful place to meet a wife. There are so many lovely and clever girls about.”
In 2014, when the euphemistic nature of the phrase was being established, gender lines began to form. Guys tweeted pictures of smug faces alongside captions such as, “When she says Netflix and chill”, while girls tweeted pictures of shocked, dismayed faces with captions such as, “When you find out what Netflix and chill means”.
But wait, ladies! There is one female DJ: Hattie Pearson, who is let on air at 1am, presumably giving her time to do Moyles’s ironing beforehand. Actually, that’s unfair. To say that Radio X excludes women is to say that having a womb prevents you from listening to Foo Fighters, Courteeners or Muse. Radio X’s problem isn’t that it’s a sexist shed of a station, it’s that riding the humourless bantwagon is just such a mind-numbingly boring experience.
As a dated brand with declining figures, Xfm was long overdue a top-to-bottom rethink. Radio X is still a few weeks off launch and we’re yet to establish the full extent of its on-air ladbantz. But while it might make good commercial sense, the station’s blokes-only policy is already a guaranteed turnoff for many.
Yet the main thing people level at Corbynomics – that it relies wholly on tax, and is therefore nothing more than a throwback to the 70s language of squeezing the rich till their pips squeak – doesn’t stand up to even the most cursory act of reading. A much more important element is people’s quantitative easing, which is based on the idea, put simply: it’s time to give up on financial assets; it’s time to invest in stuff. The government would print money – for social housing, for rural broadband, for green infrastructure – and invest it.
Mitford’s infinitely more humourless heirs – rather oddly, given what I imagine they’d think of her – can be found in the angrier fringes of the various new politics firms: the Kippers, the cybernats, the Corbynistas. They may be divided in their beliefs, but they are united by a mania for pigeonholing. We now have New, and non-New. All public statements, all things in the world, and most especially all people, must be deemed either for them or against them, and worshipped or demonised accordingly. There is no appeals procedure.
Mitford’s infinitely more humourless heirs – rather oddly, given what I imagine they’d think of her – can be found in the angrier fringes of the various new politics firms: the Kippers, the cybernats, the Corbynistas. They may be divided in their beliefs, but they are united by a mania for pigeonholing. We now have New, and non-New. All public statements, all things in the world, and most especially all people, must be deemed either for them or against them, and worshipped or demonised accordingly. There is no appeals procedure.
“It was about one customer feeling like she belonged in that space – it’s kind of like that term they use: ‘white space’,” Johnson, an author, told the Guardian at her home in Antioch, about two hours’ drive from Napa. “And then wine train staff bought into that and used their power to take away our ability to enjoy ourselves and have a good time. I do think it was based on the colour of our skin because everything was great before we arrived at the station. There was a phone, we were invisible … but then we show up – 11 black ladies, one white lady – it was like, ‘Oh’.”
Now, Russia's so-called "selfie soldiers" are uploading photos of themselves in war-torn Syria, where they are supporting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's ailing regime.
Now, Russia's so-called "selfie soldiers" are uploading photos of themselves in war-torn Syria, where they are supporting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's ailing regime.
For years our politicians have piggy-backed upon Christian morality for electoral advantage. We should “feel proud that this is a Christian country”, said Cameron earlier this year (pre-election, of course), in what some might uncharitably see as a call to maintain a Muslim-free view from his Cotswold village. But there is no respectable Christian argument for fortress Europe, surrounded by a new iron curtain of razor wire to keep poor, dark-skinned people out. Indeed, the moral framework that our prime minister so frequently references – and to which he claims some sort of vague allegiance – is crystal clear about the absolute priority of our obligation to refugees. For the moral imagination of the Hebrew scriptures was determined by a battered refugee people, fleeing political oppression in north Africa, and seeking a new life for themselves safe from violence and poverty. Time and again, the books of the Hebrew scriptures remind its readers not to forget that they too were once in this situation and their ethics must be structured around practical help driven by fellow-feeling.
It raises questions about whether the Russians will use their air presence to attack the few anti-Assad forces whom the US is training to battle Isis – a program that has come under review after it has failed to produce the ground army the US administration promised last year would roll back Isis gains – much as the new “deconfliction” channel raises the prospect of Russian attempts to stop US flights on behalf of Assad’s enemies.
A day after the Pentagon announced that Carter was establishing a communications channel with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Shoygu, to “deconflict” any overlapping airstrikes, Russian officials told US diplomats in Baghdad that the Americans should avoid Syrian airspace during a Russian operation of uncertain duration. US officials rejected the demand.
The big “advance” from VW was the “clean diesel” technology that supposedly made the whole urea thing unnecessary on its smaller cars, like the Beetle, Jetta, and Audi A3—the very models being recalled because they don’t meet emissions standards under real-world driving conditions.
<blockquote>The Environment Protection Agency (EPA) on Friday accused VW of installing illegal “defeat device” software that dramatically reduces nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions – but only when the cars are undergoing strict emission tests.</blockquote>
Recruiters, though, also say that other businesses are sometimes cautious about bringing in Amazon workers, because they have been trained to be so combative. The derisive local nickname for Amazon employees is “Amholes” — pugnacious and work-obsessed.
Company veterans often say the genius of Amazon is the way it drives them to drive themselves. “If you’re a good Amazonian, you become an Amabot,” said one employee, using a term that means you have become at one with the system.
In 2012, Chris Brucia, who was working on a new fashion sale site, received a punishing performance review from his boss, a half-hour lecture on every goal he had not fulfilled and every skill he had not yet mastered. Mr. Brucia silently absorbed the criticism, fearing he was about to be managed out, wondering how he would tell his wife.
Moreover, it states that “being unable to understand why someone holds a viewpoint doesn’t mean that they’re wrong.” Except it sometimes does mean they are wrong when that viewpoint is “women shouldn’t code” or that a black woman contributor shouldn’t be offended by misogynoir in the project’s Slack channel.
It’s not just that the Google doodle, the corporate-branding equivalent of dress-down Friday, has that naff novelty air about it: all those cute animated Thanksgiving turkeys, faux silent films and puzzle-piece Nietzsches. Or even that, presumably driven in part by Google employees’ hobby horses (“How about Giambattista Tiepolo’s 318th birthday?”), they feel like textbook “wackaging”; the ingratiating, infantilising tone that has been smeared all over marketing for the past decade.
he problem with Apple’s attitude to games isn’t just that it treats them differently to books and music, though. After all, there are undeniable differences between them: no book can hack your device, no song can download pirated content, and no movie can abuse in-app payments. All of those factors necessitate some sort of review process above and beyond what legacy media needs.
Clicking on a chumlink—even one on the site of a relatively high-class chummer, like nymag.com—is a guaranteed way to find more, weirder, grosser chum. The boxes are daisy-chained together in an increasingly cynical, gross funnel; quickly, the open ocean becomes a sewer of chum.
The chumboxes were placed there by one of several chumvendors—Taboola, Outbrain, RevContent, Adblade, and my favorite, Content.ad—who design them to seamlessly slip into a particular design convention established early within the publishing web, a grid of links to appealing, perhaps-related content at the bottom of the content you intentionally came to consume.
This is a chumbox. It is a variation on the banner ad which takes the form of a grid of advertisements that sits at the bottom of a web page underneath the main content. It can be found on the sites of many leading publishers, including nymag.com, dailymail.co.uk, usatoday.com, and theawl.com (where it was “an experiment that has since ended.”)
Linear TV: A television service that requires the viewer to watch a scheduled TV program at the particular time it’s offered, and on the particular channel it's presented on. Synonyms include time-and-channel based TV, appointment-based TV, and traditional television. (Source: ITV Dictionary.) Non-linear TV comprises on-demand formats as well as programs that don’t emanate from a network channel, also known as web TV and digital media.
It is not just the number of individual pieces but possibly the nature of the content that may hold the key to the rise. The Guardian since its inception has always sought to break stories but the retreat of what is now termed, in another ugly phrase, “commoditised news”, ie those stories that can be got everywhere, has led to an even greater emphasis on investigations and breaking news.
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His team’s aim is to produce CSP technology that will be cheap and quick to install. “We are developing plonkable heliostats. Plonkable means that from factory to installation you can just drop them down on to the ground and they work.” So no costly cement, no highly-trained workforce, no wires, just two workers to lay out the steel frames on the ground and a streetlight-style central tower.
Here’s a wedge salad plan of attack. Stab the fork at the bull’s-eye and extract the dense, yellow-white, bigger-than-bite-size chunk of iceberg lettuce in the center. If that piece isn’t covered with a swath of dressing, a modicum of blue cheese and a crumble of bacon, maneuver your knife to make that happen. If you can manage to get diced tomato into the equation, so much the better. Move your head closer to the plate, bring the fork to your mouth and stuff it in. Revel in the satisfaction of the cool crunch mixed with tang, creaminess, fat and smoke. Repeat with the rest of the salad.
Call something “salad,” and it immediately acquires what Pierre Chandon calls a “health halo.” Chandon, professor of marketing at INSEAD, an international business school in Fontainebleau, France, says that once people have the idea it’s good for them, they stop paying attention “to its actual nutritional content or, even worse, to its portion size.”
If an issue does occur, we release a new point release and repeat the process. I'd like to avoid creating and uploading binaries for "brown bag" releases, if possible.
Rigby has a BBC lanyard that he picked up in a BBC gift store, which he wears slung around his neck with the empty ID holder tucked discreetly in his inside jacket pocket. He also collects lapel pins – from the Equity actor’s union, the National Union of Journalists and so on. The espionage community, he points out, calls all this “pocket litter”.
Difficulties in Identifying English Cutthroat Compounds
Cutthroats are agentive and instrumental exocentric verb-noun V+N compounds that name people and objects by describing their function (i.e., a cutthroat is a person who cuts throats). They are composed of a transitive verb and its direct object. Cutthroats are freely productive in Romance languages, which have a V.O. (verb-object) structure and are left-headed. English, which is V.O. and right-headed, has slight native productivity (Clark et al, 1986) that has been amplified and augmented by French borrowings (e.g., coupe-gorge and wardecorps). English has been slowly producing new cutthroats since the 1200s up through 2015, mainly in the form of nonce personal insults. Most cutthroats are obsolete slang, but about 40, including pickpocket, pinchpenny, rotgut and spitfire, are commonly known in Modern English.
Difficulties in Identifying English Cutthroat Compounds
Cutthroats are agentive and instrumental exocentric verb-noun V+N compounds that name people and objects by describing their function (i.e., a cutthroat is a person who cuts throats). They are composed of a transitive verb and its direct object. Cutthroats are freely productive in Romance languages, which have a V.O. (verb-object) structure and are left-headed. English, which is V.O. and right-headed, has slight native productivity (Clark et al, 1986) that has been amplified and augmented by French borrowings (e.g., coupe-gorge and wardecorps). English has been slowly producing new cutthroats since the 1200s up through 2015, mainly in the form of nonce personal insults. Most cutthroats are obsolete slang, but about 40, including pickpocket, pinchpenny, rotgut and spitfire, are commonly known in Modern English.
Rigby’s hobby is attending events where there is free food and booze. Later tonight he’ll drop in at a nearby mixer for networkers, and then, if he fancies it, a talk at the University of the Arts London. He calls what he does “ligging” – which means gatecrashing with intent to snack. “The French would call me a pique-assiette,” Rigby says as we approach the bar. It translates roughly as “one who picks from others’ plates”. Others on the scene prefer “eventing”. Rigby estimates there are 50 regular liggers in London, mostly middle-aged single men. He’s on nodding terms with about six of them.
I believe that I have developed the opposite of FOMO, in fact: I have a case of FOGO, or Fear of Going Out. Okay, well not literally a fear of going out. I still love a party. Always have and always will. But I have an active non-desire to attend the mass-Instagrammed events that clog up all my social-media feeds on several-week-long intervals throughout the year. And I am not the only one. Last year, around this time of year, Lena Dunham tweeted: "Whatever the opposite of FOMO is, that's what I have about Coachella." Someone I know recently tweeted: "Not going to SXSW is the new getting off Facebook."
I believe that I have developed the opposite of FOMO, in fact: I have a case of FOGO, or Fear of Going Out. Okay, well not literally a fear of going out. I still love a party. Always have and always will. But I have an active non-desire to attend the mass-Instagrammed events that clog up all my social-media feeds on several-week-long intervals throughout the year. And I am not the only one. Last year, around this time of year, Lena Dunham tweeted: "Whatever the opposite of FOMO is, that's what I have about Coachella." Someone I know recently tweeted: "Not going to SXSW is the new getting off Facebook."
Due to popular hatred, the University of California has withdrawn its new logo. This is no cause for tears; the proposed image, a stylized C emblazoned upon a U, looked like a plus-size strapless dress smeared with unicorn poop. The outrage, however, is noteworthy for its place within a bigger phenomenon. If crowdsourcing builds things, here we see the emergence of crowdsmashing: the Gap Logo Debacle of 2010, the London 2012 Olympics Hot Pink Logo Fussquake, the Syfy Brand Identity Conundrum. Something about logos and rebranding can just piss a mob right off.
Smartstraps are basically hardware extensions to the smartwatch that can augment its capabilities or provide brand-new ones. The concept is pretty simple—think of a watchband equipped with, say, GPS sensors, Wi-Fi radios, extra batteries or other sensors. These smartstraps can plug into the magnetic charging port on the back of the Pebble Time, which doubles as a data connection.
Wearables, hearables, nearables and payables will be some of the buzzwords of 2015 as the mobile revolution takes the next great leap. Mobile and social trends will continue to drive technical, product and content innovation with subscription and rental models increasingly driving digital revenues.
Wearables, hearables, nearables and payables will be some of the buzzwords of 2015 as the mobile revolution takes the next great leap. Mobile and social trends will continue to drive technical, product and content innovation with subscription and rental models increasingly driving digital revenues.
Wearables, hearables, nearables and payables will be some of the buzzwords of 2015 as the mobile revolution takes the next great leap. Mobile and social trends will continue to drive technical, product and content innovation with subscription and rental models increasingly driving digital revenues.
Earable computers, or earables, will look like existing audio accessories—earbuds, headphones, and the like. The inexorable trend towards miniaturization and wireless connectivity will mean that these devices will soon untether themselves from smartphones and connect us to news, entertainment, and people on their own.
But smart watches won’t be the only companion devices. Yes, Google has moved firmly into the glass form factor — eyeables — which has drawn a great deal of backlash for personal use. But there are great use cases in business for that approach (see What can we expect from Google Glass in the enterprise), so it will catch on in medicine, construction, security, military, and many other sectors. In a few years, it will seem commonplace for your dentist to peer into your mouth wearing something like Glass.
And last week, Motorola offered another take on wearables: Motorola Hint is an earable. Hint is a bluetooth earbud that can cooperate with smart phones through voice commands, or perhaps more grandly, a means to remain connected to the world without manually fiddling with devices, but simply using your voice.
I first heard the term a few weeks ago during an email exchange with Ben Forman, one of the creators of the ZBoard — and it's perfect. A rideable is something you ride on. It has an electric motor that's powerful enough to use as a commuting device, and it’s small enough to take into the subway or office with you.
There-ables infer identity based on how you interact with them. There-ables know it’s us because, well, they are smarter: Nest knows our heat signature. Withings knows our body composition. There-ables have fewer power restrictions; they’re often just plugged right into the power grid and, therefore, don’t need to have batteries charged everyday.
Embeddables will have significant consequences for the delivery of digital services as monolithic screen-focused devices start to be enhanced with distributed computation. A more ambient kind of experience in which sensors capture information about us and feed that information into systems quietly working away in the background will emerge. Use in initial domains such as healthcare and fitness will extend further to information, communications, entertainment, socialising, learning, work, self-actuation. Virtually any human activity we can think of is going to be modified and amplified with an invisible mesh of data and processing that we will drift through obliviously.
Embeddables are miniature devices that are actually inserted under the skin or deeper into the body. A heart pacemaker is one kind of embeddable device. In the future, embeddables may use nanotechnology and be so tiny that doctors would simply “inject” them into our bodies. Some promising applications in this area could help diabetes patients monitor their blood sugar levels reliably and automatically, without the need to prick their fingers or otherwise draw blood.
Ingestibles are broadband-enabled digital tools that we actually eat. For example, there are smart pills that use wireless technology to help monitor internal reactions to medications. Or imagine a smart pill that tracks blood levels of medications in a patient's body throughout the day to help physicians find optimum dosage levels, avoid overmedicating, and truly individualize treatment. Also, miniature pill-shaped video cameras may one day soon replace colonoscopies or endoscopies. Patients would simply swallow a “pill,” which would collect and transmit images as it makes its way through the digestive system.
Hearables – smart ear devices featuring 3D audio notification – may prove a more accurate, less obtrusive sub sector of health and fitness wearables. Proximity to blood vessels within the ear mean that products such as Valencell’s heart rate earphones allow users to precisely and continuously measure weak blood flow signals during extreme physical activity. This provides a highly accurate picture of heart rate, respiration rate, and other blood flow parameters, while allowing them to still listen to music while they train.
The USA's National Transportation Safety Board's (NTSB's) investigation into a 2014 light plane crash has come to the conclusion that the pilot may well have been distracted by selfie-taking passengers.
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The flight took place at night, one factor in the disorientation. But NTSB investigators also found a GoProcamera among the wreckage and were able to retrieve files from its memory card. Those files did not depict the fatal flight, but did show flights from the day of the accident and the previous day in which “... the pilot and various passengers were taking self-photographs with their cell phones and, during the night flight, using the camera’s flash function during the takeoff roll, initial climb, and flight in the traffic pattern.”
At their best, supertweets like Banks’s work like trump cards or mic drops. They prevent the indicted individual from being able to reply without compromising themselves, and in so doing they carve out new room for the supertweeter in a landscape purportedly overgrown with the supertweetee’s largess. Just like the political opponent can’t reply to the accusation, “I do not know if my opponent in this race is a crook” without repeating (and thereby affirming or at least directing attention to the fact that he or she might be a crook), so the supertweetee cannot address the accusation or indictment without proving that the power differential proposed really does exist, and that he or she is unwilling or unable to allow other voices to weigh in on the matter without attempting to re-take control of the conversation.
At their best, supertweets like Banks’s work like trump cards or mic drops. They prevent the indicted individual from being able to reply without compromising themselves, and in so doing they carve out new room for the supertweeter in a landscape purportedly overgrown with the supertweetee’s largess. Just like the political opponent can’t reply to the accusation, “I do not know if my opponent in this race is a crook” without repeating (and thereby affirming or at least directing attention to the fact that he or she might be a crook), so the supertweetee cannot address the accusation or indictment without proving that the power differential proposed really does exist, and that he or she is unwilling or unable to allow other voices to weigh in on the matter without attempting to re-take control of the conversation.
Given that both the equivocal, indirect tweet (“I see it’s jerk day at The Atlantic”) and the direct kind (“Ian Bogost is a jerk”) are both apophatic in their own way, we need a way to distinguish them. If the first is a subtweet, a speech act that subordinates itself to the original, then perhaps the latter is best named a “supertweet.”
The subtweet is apophatic in the beat-around-the-bush manner. It’s a private whisper shrouded in “I didn’t say anything” innocence. But the supertweet is direct in its apophasis, like the politician’s insult. The subtweet doesn’t want you to know what it’s talking about unless you do already; the supertweet wants its meaning to be clear to everyone, but to feign concealment from its target.
When most objects and services have a name and a means to communicate with them, we will not need smart phones or wearables anymore. The information and communication technology becomes an integral part of our surroundings. It becomes Nearable Technology.
It probably goes without saying that this is not a commonly used term just yet. While typing this, my autocorrect changes, quite fittingly, the word “nearable” to the word “bearable”. This is pretty much the point: calm technology is embedded in our lives so that it improves our wellbeing and capabilities without stressing us or constantly demanding our attention (Although using the Internet does not stress us – using Facebook does).
After the widespread introduction of Nearables our world will become a different place.
When most objects and services have a name and a means to communicate with them, we will not need smart phones or wearables anymore. The information and communication technology becomes an integral part of our surroundings. It becomes Nearable Technology.
It probably goes without saying that this is not a commonly used term just yet. While typing this, my autocorrect changes, quite fittingly, the word “nearable” to the word “bearable”. This is pretty much the point: calm technology is embedded in our lives so that it improves our wellbeing and capabilities without stressing us or constantly demanding our attention (Although using the Internet does not stress us – using Facebook does).
After the widespread introduction of Nearables our world will become a different place.
““Brexit” is shorthand for British exit from the European Union – a possibility that is looking more realistic by the day. Ukip, after all, are in the midst of a seemingly endless political summer, while senior Conservative politicians such as Boris Johnson talk optimistically about life outside the clutches of Brussels. Should they win next year’s election, the Tories are pledged to follow a renegotiation of Britain’s membership with an in/out referendum that will supposedly materialise by the end of 2017. Meanwhile, a debate rages between two sides that do not just seem to be from opposed political traditions, but different planets.
“Grexit is unthinkable,” said a second senior Brussels policymaker involved in the negotiations. “It would be extremely bad. Europe is about irreversibility. If you start doubting that, you start pricing in the risk of fragmentation and soon you have no monetary union. The only chance of Grexit is if Greece defaults on its payments. Morally, that would be saying they want to leave.” A default would trigger a run on the banks, capital flight and capital controls.
I was a 10x engineer for 7 months and then I was a 0x engineer for a year and a half. You burn the candle at both ends. You end up with alcoholism and depression. You’re talking about a very small subset of people. And they might end up in divorce and financial ruin. When people think you’re a 10x engineer, they think you have skills that you don’t. You invariably let people down. — Anonymous
Since before Elizabeth Bumiller came up with the term for the Times, I was a fan of Sforzian Backgrounds, the news-manipulating slogans created by Scott Sforza, a key member of the White House's advance scenery and production team, for just about every public appearance of George W. Bush.
Since before Elizabeth Bumiller came up with the term for the Times, I was a fan of Sforzian Backgrounds, the news-manipulating slogans created by Scott Sforza, a key member of the White House's advance scenery and production team, for just about every public appearance of George W. Bush.
Sforzian is now generally applied to a stage-managed, news-manipulating, political display, such as the image of world leaders marching shoulder-to-shoulder with millions in the Charlie Hebdo unity rally, except really the leaders were on their own down a sealed-off side street.
A montage to make us believe they are. Instead of simply crafting a single, standalone image, make a photo-op that blends seamlessly into the broader visual narrative of the event. I believe this colonization of a montage represents an advance in Sforzian technique which warrants more investigation. Stay tuned.
dot-thing, or dot-thing gTLD. One of the new generic top-level domains, such as .coffee, .club, and also ones including non-Latin script such as Arabic or Chinese.
If you want to get higher up Google's search rankings, it turns out that using a new dot-thingdomain – such as .guru or .ninja – may give you the edge.
Two recent studies into the impact of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) have claimed that, far from Google's official position, using the right domain ending can bump you up an extra place or two in the rankings.
But according to authors, the guidelines are well-known and widely used by educational publishers, encompassing a range of “taboo” subjects in addition to pork, with publishers keen to avoid offending potential markets for their books abroad. There is even an acronym, PARSNIP, to remind authors of topics to be avoided: politics, alcohol, religion, sex, narcotics, isms (communism for example) and pork.
We wouldn’t accept actors blacking up, so why applaud ‘cripping up’?
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But is this as harmless as mainstream audiences seem to see it? While “blacking up” is rightly now greeted with outrage, “cripping up” is still greeted with awards. Is there actually much difference between the two?
Do-ocracy: If you want something done, do it, but remember to be excellent to each other when doing so. An important part of being excellent is documenting your change. Write a note on Noisebridge's ChangeLog, or leave a note on what you do-ocratically did.
I re-read Matthew Debord’s piece in the L.A. Times about the Aspergerian male compulsion to efficiently load the autoclave, or, as non-male non-Aspergerians call it, the dishwasher.
The popularity of fitness-tracking wristbands will wane in the next 12 months, according to market analysts, as consumers opt instead for more versatile smartwatches and new smartclothing.
The top end of laptops is a world of brushed aluminium and fancy features. The bottom end is a world of crappy plastic and shovelware, with computers shipped full of borderline spyware in order to pad out the minuscule margins earned by their manufacturers.
- the new gnome-terminal seems to default into a new "Emo mode" (aka "Dark Theme"). I don't know who thought it was a good idea to make a terminal application have its own depressed theme different from all other applications, but I'm guessing they spend their days cutting themselves and listening to death metal, and thinking they are "cool".
Linus Torvalds on the new dark theme for a Linux command terminal.
bilby: I checked the logs and you're right, up wasn't a favorite word, it should have been catch up. I'll fix the list. I expect there will be a few more false hits like this, but not many. The script doesn't attempt to find double-word words. Perhaps it should only get (single) words at the start of a tweet, or a start of a sentence.
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Drone operators refer to children as “fun-size terrorists” and liken killing them to “cutting the grass before it grows too long,” said one of the operators, Michael Haas, a former senior airman in the Air Force.
https://theintercept.com/2015/11/19/former-drone-operators-say-they-were-horrified-by-cruelty-of-assassination-program/
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<blockquote>Linear TV: A television service that requires the viewer to watch a scheduled TV program at the particular time it’s offered, and on the particular channel it's presented on. Synonyms include time-and-channel based TV, appointment-based TV, and traditional television. (Source: ITV Dictionary.) Non-linear TV comprises on-demand formats as well as programs that don’t emanate from a network channel, also known as web TV and digital media.</blockquote>
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<blockquote>The Environment Protection Agency (EPA) on Friday accused VW of installing illegal “defeat device” software that dramatically reduces nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions – but only when the cars are undergoing strict emission tests.</blockquote>
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September 3, 2015
hugovk commented on the word linear TV
linear TV, n.
Away With Words - Word of the Week: Linear TV, 1 June 2015:
September 3, 2015
hugovk commented on the word commoditised news
commoditised news, n.
The Guardian, 31 May 2015:
September 3, 2015
hugovk commented on the word DYK
DYK, n. did you know
Wordnik, 3 September 2015:
September 3, 2015
hugovk commented on the word microhood
microhood, n.
Who's On First - Mapzen, 18 August 2015:
September 3, 2015
hugovk commented on the word plonkable
plonkable, adj.
The Guardian, 24 August 2015:
September 3, 2015
hugovk commented on the word wedge salad
wedge salad, n.
The Washington Post, 4 August 2015:
September 3, 2015
hugovk commented on the word health halo
health halo, n.
The Washington Post, 23 August 2015:
September 3, 2015
hugovk commented on the word SDN
SDN, n.
Wired, 17 June 2015:
September 3, 2015
hugovk commented on the word software-defined networking
software-defined networking, n.
Wired, 17 June 2015:
September 3, 2015
hugovk commented on the word fanservice
fanservice, n.
Wikipedia, 4 July 2015:
September 3, 2015
hugovk commented on the word brown bag release
brown bag release, noun
Alex Clark, GitHub, 7 June 2015:
September 3, 2015
hugovk commented on the word save-water
http://www.sallysavewater.com/sally-save-water-says/did-you-know-this-about-sally-save-water
June 12, 2015
hugovk commented on the word wiggletail
wiggletail, n. the larva of a mosquito. chiefly South, South Midland, Texas, Oklahoma (from DARE).
June 2, 2015
hugovk commented on the word pocket litter
pocket litter, n.
The Guardian, 24th May 2015:
May 27, 2015
hugovk commented on the word cutthroat
cutthroat, n., a cutthroat compound
Brianne Hughes, 6th May 2015:
May 27, 2015
hugovk commented on the word cutthroat compound
cutthroat compound, n.
Brianne Hughes, 6th May 2015:
May 27, 2015
hugovk commented on the word eventing
eventing, v.
The Guardian, 24th May 2015:
May 27, 2015
hugovk commented on the word thisclose
thisclose, n. Very close.
The Atlantic, March 2015:
May 27, 2015
hugovk commented on the word eventer
eventer, n. A gatecrasher, a smellfeast, a lickdish
The Guardian, 24th May 2015:
May 27, 2015
hugovk commented on the word futurecast
futurecast, noun
Paul Lamere, 27 January 2015:
May 27, 2015
hugovk commented on the list a-silent-letter-radio-alphabet-to-annoy-call-centre-staff
A work in progress.
April 26, 2015
hugovk commented on the word supervoid
supervoid, n.
The Guardian, 20 April 2015:
April 21, 2015
hugovk commented on the word kidtech
kidtech, n.
The Guardian, 5 March 2015:
April 20, 2015
hugovk commented on the word empty-chair
empty-chair, v.
The Guardian, 6 March 2015:
April 20, 2015
hugovk commented on the word empty-chair
empty-chair, v.
BBC - The Editors, 30 March 2007:
April 20, 2015
hugovk commented on the word Fear of Going Out
Fear of Going Out, n.
Vanity Fair's Fashion Department, @VFstyle, 18 April 2011:
April 19, 2015
hugovk commented on the word FOGO
FOGO, n.
Vanity Fair's Fashion Department, @VFstyle, 18 April 2011:
April 19, 2015
hugovk commented on the word Fear of Going Out
Fear of Going Out, n.
Alexis Swerdloff, New York Magazine:
April 19, 2015
hugovk commented on the word FOGO
FOGO, n.
Alexis Swerdloff, New York Magazine:
April 19, 2015
hugovk commented on the word crowdsmashing
crowdsmashing, v.
Paul Ford, New York Magazine, 21 December 2012:
April 19, 2015
hugovk commented on the word crowdsmash
crowdsmash, v.
Managed Print Services Association @Your_MPSA, 1 September 2011:
April 19, 2015
hugovk commented on the word smartstrap
smartstrap, n.
readwrite, April 2015:
April 18, 2015
hugovk commented on the word payable
payable, n. usually plural
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, January 2015:
April 18, 2015
hugovk commented on the word nearable
nearable, n. usually plural
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, January 2015:
April 18, 2015
hugovk commented on the word hearable
hearable, n. usually plural
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, January 2015:
April 18, 2015
hugovk commented on the word earable
earable, n.
readwrite, May 2014:
April 18, 2015
hugovk commented on the word eyeable
eyeable, n.
Stowe Boyd, Gigaom, September 2014:
April 18, 2015
hugovk commented on the word earable
earable, n.
Stowe Boyd, Gigaom, September 2014:
April 18, 2015
hugovk commented on the word rideable
rideable, n. Smart-tech on bicycles, usually plural
9TO5Google, July 2014:
April 18, 2015
hugovk commented on the word rideable
rideable, n. Usually plural
The Verge, November 2014:
April 18, 2015
hugovk commented on the word there-able
there-able, n.
naveen, April 2014:
April 18, 2015
hugovk commented on the word embeddable
embeddable, n.
Andy Goodman, Fjord, 2013:
April 18, 2015
hugovk commented on the word awareable
awareable, n.
Wired, March 2015:
April 18, 2015
hugovk commented on the word embeddable
embeddable, n.
Federal Communications Commission:
April 18, 2015
hugovk commented on the word ingestible
ingestible, n.
Federal Communications Commission:
April 18, 2015
hugovk commented on the word awareable
awareable, n.
Wearables TechCon, January 2015:
April 18, 2015
hugovk commented on the word spinning rust
spinning rust, n. A computer hard disk, specifically one using magnetic storage, as opposed to a solid-state drive (SSD).
erics, 16 March 2015:
March 18, 2015
hugovk commented on the word non-binary
The Guardian, February 2015:
March 4, 2015
hugovk commented on the word hearable
The Guardian, February 2015:
March 4, 2015
hugovk commented on the word self-photograph
An attempt to avoid the word selfie, especially as used by an official body who can't quite bring themselves to use such a "common" word.
The Register, February 2015:
March 4, 2015
hugovk commented on the word supertweetee
The Atlantic, January 2015:
March 4, 2015
hugovk commented on the word supertweeter
The Atlantic, January 2015:
March 4, 2015
hugovk commented on the word supertweet
The Atlantic, January 2015:
March 4, 2015
hugovk commented on the word Nearable Technology
A proposed development of the internet of things, when smartdevices are no longer needed in smartphones or wearables, but become an integral part of our surroundings.
Demos Helsinki, January 2015:
March 4, 2015
hugovk commented on the word nearable
A proposed development of the internet of things, when smartdevices are no longer needed in smartphones or wearables, but become an integral part of our surroundings.
Demos Helsinki, January 2015:
March 4, 2015
hugovk commented on the word Brexit
British exit from the EU.
The Guardian, October 2014:
March 4, 2015
hugovk commented on the word Grexit
Greek exit from the EU or euro.
The Guardian, January 2015:
March 4, 2015
hugovk commented on the word 10x engineer
Shanley Kane, September 2013:
March 4, 2015
hugovk commented on the word Sforzian Background
For example, the 'Mission Accomplished' sign behind George Bush on the USS Abraham Lincoln.
greg.org, October 2003:
March 4, 2015
hugovk commented on the word Sforzian
Adjective, originally from the Sforzian Background, such as the 'Mission Accomplished' sign behind George Bush on the USS Abraham Lincoln.
greg.org, October 2003:
Sforzian is now generally applied to a stage-managed, news-manipulating, political display, such as the image of world leaders marching shoulder-to-shoulder with millions in the Charlie Hebdo unity rally, except really the leaders were on their own down a sealed-off side street.
greg.org, January 2015:
March 4, 2015
hugovk commented on the word af
Abbreviation of "as fuck".
@OgChrisCat__, January 2015:
March 4, 2015
hugovk commented on the word roverware
Software used on an extraterrestrial automated motor vehicle.
The Register, January 2015:
March 4, 2015
hugovk commented on the word livebrag
To show off about being at an event by livelogging/livetweeting.
@iamdanw:
March 4, 2015
hugovk commented on the word dot-thing
dot-thing, or dot-thing gTLD. One of the new generic top-level domains, such as .coffee, .club, and also ones including non-Latin script such as Arabic or Chinese.
Used by The Register, October 2014:
The Register, January 2015:
January 16, 2015
hugovk commented on the word PARSNIP
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jan/14/pigs-textbooks-oup-authors-pork-guidelines">The Guardian, January 2015</a>:
January 14, 2015
hugovk commented on the word cit
Slate, January 2015:
January 14, 2015
hugovk commented on the word cripping up
Frances Ryan in the Guardian, January 2015:
January 14, 2015
hugovk commented on the word doodleware
The Register, January 2015:
January 14, 2015
hugovk commented on the word do-ocratically
Noisebridge, December 2014:
January 14, 2015
hugovk commented on the word Do-ocracy
Noisebridge, December 2014:
January 14, 2015
hugovk commented on the word autoclave
Personal Weblog of Joe Clark, Toronto, January 2015:
January 14, 2015
hugovk commented on the word smartclothing
The Guardian, January 2015:
January 14, 2015
hugovk commented on the word smartclothes
The Guardian, January 2015:
January 14, 2015
hugovk commented on the word shovelware
The Guardian, January 2015:
January 14, 2015
hugovk commented on the word straightwashing
David Shariatmadari in the Guardian:
January 14, 2015
hugovk commented on the word emo mode
Linus Torvalds on the new dark theme for a Linux command terminal.
January 14, 2015
hugovk commented on the list outcasts
Inspired by this, I've written a similar script to search Twitter for "X is my favourite word" and add it to a Wordnik list.
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/twitter-favourites/
See also:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/twitter-favorites/
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/twitter-faves/
October 10, 2013
hugovk commented on the list twitter-favourites
bilby: spatulaless, the state of having no spatula after your friend steals your spatula.
https://twitter.com/tequilasombrer0/status/383910704258220032
September 30, 2013
hugovk commented on the list twitter-favorites
bilby: I checked the logs and you're right, up wasn't a favorite word, it should have been catch up. I'll fix the list. I expect there will be a few more false hits like this, but not many. The script doesn't attempt to find double-word words. Perhaps it should only get (single) words at the start of a tweet, or a start of a sentence.
March 20, 2013