be said about being able to express complex ideas in simple language, not the other way around. And personally, really, I think using big words to sound impressive is just lame. It always just sounds like you're really, really trying. xD Here's a blog entry that briefly explains Oppenheimer's study (which is titled "Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly". LOL.); and here's the actual study in PDF.
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it's ok to be messed up. tomorrow we'll boogie.
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The Terminator thinks we taste like bacon
http://www.inquisitr.com/9614/the-terminator-thinks-we-taste...was identified as prosciutto. A cameraman was mistaken for bacon. Lucky for us humans there are no real plans to market the little guy, so we’re safe from being served up for some robot banquet breakfast for a while to come. [hat tip to Billy and Collision Detection]
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Robot thinks people taste like “bacon” We are so...
http://hornybacon.com/post/60586870Robot thinks people taste like “bacon”
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Bram.us
http://www.bram.us- Great to see they got back to the atmosphere of the first ad. [ October 18th, 2008 - 0 comment(s) ] Post Holiday Geekinees, continued (linkzbag) Still catching up on some stuff, here some more things that caught my attention: Out of 438 incoming freshman students at Amherst College, 432 of them are on Facebook and only 5 have landlines - or when Generation M starts going to highschool ;) (via) Radiohead Blip Tribute - Idioteque! (via) Rabbit in your Headlight cover - Great cover, by the multi-talented Shaun Inman HTML 5 demos from September 2008
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Writing About My Shite
http://www.arras.net/fscIII/?p=337Daily Sonnets, Brian Kim Stefans’s Kluge: A Meditation and Other Works” Mark Wallace Verse (print edition) review of Fashionable Noise: On Digital Poetics Clive Thompson Collision Detection (blog) “Why Interactive Poetry Beats Interactive Fiction” C St Perez Tarpaulin Sky review of What is Said to the Poets Concerning Flowers Jason Morris Jacket Magazine “The Time Between Time: Messianism & the Promise of a ‘New Sincerity’” (essay)
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Treespotting
http://treespotter.blogspot.comI’m sick of Facebook and my FB is in near shut down mode (I don’t add new friends anymore and barely update anything at all). Twitter is fun though and I think it’s unlikely that I’ll go away anytime soon. There’s a really nice piece by Clive Thompson from the NY Times about social – ambience – media that’s really worth reading. I’ll be back in a few days and we’ll sort things out.* Maybe we can even go out for drinks sometime this week, any takers? * for fucked up shitheads who thinks going after my friends and family is fun,
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A Bigger Voice
http://www.abiggervoiceblog.comTwo people pointed me to this blog posting about Twitter and how it creates "ambient awareness" of each other. Actually, the posting is an excerpt from a New York Times Magazine article published on Sept 7. What I notice is how quickly the news spreads because it's excerpted on a blog (that
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Walking Satellite
http://walkingsatellite.blogspot.comNew technique renders objects at sea "invisible" to waves of water - This is incredibly cool: A group of engineers and mathematicians have built a device that renders an object invisible to waves *of water.* Last month, I ...
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tangents / 3 months of 4′33, mic’ing Marfa, three Martinez scores …
http://disquiet.com/2008/10/19/tangents-3-months-of-433-mici...red-sweater.com/shush (via downloadsquad.com). … Suzanne Vega, muse if not mother of the MP3, because her song “Tom’s Diner” was used in early testing of the compression algorithm (nytimes.com, collisiondetection.net). As mentioned in her essay, I’d emphasize that the same song is also important for having served as an early inspiration for grey-market remixes such as Danger Mouse’s Grey Album, since back in 19990
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Bricolagem High Tech
http://suzanacohen.wordpress.comparecida com a do Kindle, da Amazon, em que as páginas da revista poderiam mudar mês a mês. Aí sim, o saldo final acabaria sendo bem positivo. Veja aqui como a capa high tech foi feita. Fonte inspiradora: Collision Detection
