February 2011
25 posts
RT @mrfungfung: Overthinking about the pretty girl: http://drawingboardcomic.com/index.php?comic=142
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January 2011
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Jan 29th
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I, morpheme addict/ Affixing and deriving/ Is it a syntax? #haiku #linguisticspuns
Jan 26th
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Jan 25th
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Jan 24th
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Jan 23rd
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Jan 23rd
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“The interrobang, interabang[1] (play /ɪnˈtɛrəbæŋ/), ‽ / ?! / !?, is a...”
– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrobang
Jan 23rd
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Jan 23rd
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Jan 22nd
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Jan 22nd
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Hot Library Smut →
Jan 22nd
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Jan 22nd
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“These loaves, pigeons, and two little boys seemed unearthly. It all happened at...”
– Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Jan 21st
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Jan 21st
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Jan 21st
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Semantic satiation →
readmorewikipedia: Semantic satiation is a cognitive neuroscience phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener, who can only process the speech as repeated meaningless sounds. For example, say: “smile smile smile smile smile smile smile smile smile smile smile smile smile smile….”.
Jan 20th
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Jan 19th
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Jan 19th
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Jan 18th
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Jan 15th
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The Improvisational Brain →
Musical improvisation is a developed cognitive skill, similar to language production.
Jan 14th
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Cat food: twenty bucks Cat litter: kinda smelly Purred to sleep: priceless #haiku #bestcatever
Jan 12th
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"App" beats "nom" as word of the year →
I was totally rooting for ‘nom’.
Jan 11th
RT @smartinuk: Anybody know what kind of spider this is? I found it in my basement, and it looks vaguely widow-ish. :/ http://campl.us/sxG
Jan 11th
Jan 11th
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Jan 10th
RT @gmcmullen: The Sunday Times asks whether dolphins should be considered “non-human persons” http://t.co/kG8rNYc
Jan 10th
Anticipation The preamble and the thrust New piercing in me #haiku #virginityjoke
Jan 9th
“Here’s what I think, Mr. Wind-Up Bird,” said May Kasahara. “Everybody’s born...”
– Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (via liquidnight)
Jan 9th
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Jan 9th
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Patton Oswalt on Writing and Publising - The Daily... →
Oswalt breaks open the publishing Cabal.. You should hear what Tor does to their prison ghostwriters..
Jan 8th
Happiness is wool Melton and silk velvet @ Dressew http://instagr.am/p/6GJC/
Jan 8th
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Jan 8th
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Jan 7th
Testing the networks/ so many services now/ does it work so far? #haiku
Jan 7th
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Jan 7th