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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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