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Wondering what word takes the longest to write compared to saying it.
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A few examples come to mind: Featherstonehaugh is pronounced "fan-shaw" and Woolfardisworthy is "wool-sy". Queue is pronounced "kuh" in French.
- Simon
french: beaucoup is: bokù
- ubu
Using French is cheating.
- Daniel Dulitz
One way to answer this is to find the word that maximizes the ratio of the number of letters in the word to the number of phonemes in its pronunciation according to some phonetic dictionary. I wrote a quick awk script and ran it over the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin...) and it told me that "eighth" and "oeuvre" are winners, tied at a ratio of 3.0, followed by "thorough" (2.67), and numerous 5-letter words with 2 phonemes like "array" and "aisle" and "dough".
- Doug Beeferman
@Doug: Yay awk :) I guess it's unsurprising that the substring "ough" appears a couple of times in your list. So using the same CMU phoneme set, Featherstonehaugh (F-AE-N-SH-AO) would have a score of 3.4, Woolfardisworthy (W-UH-L-Z-IY) would score 3.2 and (in French) Queue (K) would score 5.
- Simon
www = 0.17?
- Jim Norris
http://twitpic.com/exyk6 - Guy making amazing balloon hats in downtown Palo Alto. The balloon monkey has balloon bananas!
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"Hey we're taking a photo here.." (in NY accent) http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/your-sh...
caj needs a haircut, Pablo Torres, Eric Bolduc and 319 other people liked this
Isn't that just typical!!!!
- Kevin J Hatton
One in a million. I love it.
- Adam Reyher
from Alert Thingy
That's insanely lucky.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
seriously this is not photoshopped? oh this is too funny, it's like that annoying kid that always jumps in front of the camera.
- R. Ferguson
LoL. This is a true once in a life time shot.
- Bluesun 2600
precious!
- Tammy Hoeck
LOL! Adorable!
- Kevin Winn
Quelle jolie photo!! Très originale, j'adore;-)
- Orangeade
Fantastic!
- Rick Cogley
Cool
- Bob Lyr
uhuh, just excellent
- TiTi
I think that must be the 'mini-wanker' the lake is named after.
- Ken Morley
I love how the camera focuses on the squirrel rather than the people
- Stephanie•CogSciLibrarian
That is too funny for words. Leave it to animals to make something so cute.
- Ray H
This shot is hilarious!! This is a totally gorgeous spot. been there once.
- Nathalie
Begging to be captioned ~ http://img.ly/2tG :3
- CannonGod
That's one photogenic little critter. <3
- Sung W. Lim
haha @ Jake Fudge. spot on!
- stefan
It's so cute! It almost doesn't look real. Loving it!!!
- Jennifer Medlin
So awesome
- Mitch
love how its head lines up exactly with the horizon line. *So* much better than it would have been.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Unbelievable.
- Ramene Anthony
See more about this story in CBC news http://www.cbc.ca/video...
- Carloe Stamp
I laugh ever time I see this. It is so great.
- Jim Williams
^^)b
- YungSang
from FriendFooV2
lol ( in NY accent :) )
- pinkpackrat
Isn't there a website where you can submit pictures of photo-stealers? This should totally be submitted. || Edit: Found it. http://thisisphotobomb.com/
- Miss Elle
excelent
- Rui
...it was only after Chipper received his prints from the local PhotoMat that he realized two humans had snuck into the background of his lakeview self-portrait.
- .LAG liked that
+.LAG
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
haha cute....family picture? lol just kidding =]
- Marissa
What family doesn't have a bit of squirreliness? (Squirrellyness?)
- Mark J
Bump.
- Kol Tregaskes
squido:
handa:
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Michael Fidler, Michelle Fullwood, HealingBrush and 3 other people liked this
Political Irony › Glenn Beck literally lies his ass off on health care - http://politicalirony.com/2009...
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"I'll tell you what really doesn't speak well of our health care system [is] that in those 16 months the hole that they stitched up in Glenn Beck's ass hasn't healed enough for him to stop talking out of it."
- April Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
It seems like John Stewart is one of the few people out there who is keeping track of the rest of the "news people", and pointing out their constant lies. It reminds me of the history re-writers in 1984. We're lucky to still have people like John Stewart and the daily show.
- Robert Felty
Great clip, but I was waiting for Glenn's ass to be literally removed as promised...
- Stephen Mack
Well, that's the point of the Daily Show. It mocks the news people.
- Anika
I gotta find the news story I read about the guy who works at the Daily Show who apparently has an eidetic memory for things that people say. So this behind-the-scenes guy watches all the news shows and can remember different things said by news folks and politicians going back years, and then he is able to recall roughly where/when they said it. That's apparently how they're able to...
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- Stephen Mack
Great catch by John Stewart. Sometimes he seems like the last media person (still its not journalism), which tries to find out what the people on the other programms are saying. So it's sometimes sad that he is just mocking them. Maybe we need a guy like that doing some serious journalism. Did anyone notice, what it actually shows about the impact of media brand on your beliefs?
- Maciek Zielinski
Stephen, would love to see that story if you can find it!
- Michelle Fullwood
My Google skillz are leet today: From http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...: "The satiric Comedy Central program regularly unearths telling footage ignored or overlooked by the real news guys. Or, to be specific, Adam Chodikoff does. Chodikoff, 37, doesn't perform on the show or write the gags that pepper Stewart's take on the day's...
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- Stephen Mack
And the reason why I read that article, of course, is this sentence: "Mainly, he says, it just takes recall and hustle and a few good TiVos." Yay TiVo!
- Stephen Mack
Thanks Stephen. Enjoyed that.
- Michelle Fullwood
Stephen. Thank you. That is a great story
- Maciek Zielinski
That is funny.
- O.Shane
To literally lie one's ass off, one's ass must actually come off. If one lies significantly, but one's ass does not detach, one has merely figuratively lied one's ass off.
- Gabe
@Gabe - you probably mean "does not detach" instead of "does detach".
- Andrew C (✓)
Fixed. Thanks, Andrew.
- Gabe
Myrna to Myrna's feed, Photographing, Persian Cam, Fotograf, Animals, Photographers sharing links, photographs,and tips!
National Geographic BEST for the year
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Carloe Stamp, Bonnie Foster, Emma and 31 other people liked this
Fantastic shots!
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
Jannifer, you have to see these http://ff.im/5UqIV
- Myrna
Love those too!
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
amazing shots
- TiTi
TiTi 'love' shots. :)) Wonder about the fly on the bear's nose.
- Myrna
outnumbered?
devsbv, Mac Sharp, Felicia Yue and 24 other people liked this
Meerkats FTW!!!!!!
- Roberto Bonini
Great picture.
- Jeremy Campbell
from twhirl
Reminds me of one episode of Meerkat manor, when the whiskers try to drive the snake away.
- Ashish
What's the plural for mongoose? Mongeese?
- Maggie
Did you mean: recursion? - http://blogoscoped.com/archive...
Pandu ● IT Optimizer, Kol Tregaskes, Myroslav Opyr and 49 other people liked this
LOL.. !
- Peter Dawson
Don't be silly, obviously they meant cursive recursion. There IS a difference.
- ianf ⌘
Thanks to all of you, [recursion] is rated “Volcanic” and #6 on Google Hot Trends right now: http://www.google.com/trends...
- Amit Patel
Mount Rushmore as seen from Canada.
حُسین آفلاینـ, Rickandliz Tipton, cyb and 387 other people liked this
HAHAHAHA
- Anika
Fair trade for them getting the good view of Niagara Falls I'd say.
- invariant
frickin sweet!
- BEX
LOL
- Tibor Holoda
So where exactly did Nicholas Cage enter to find the treasure?
- Geoff Schultz {TF}
LOL! too funny.
- John Blanton
from twhirl
LOL
- Roberto Bonini
Heh. B. Kliban did a cartoon of this with their pants down. Good job on this, tho :-)
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
hahaha, that's funny!
- freedom fighter mom
from twhirl
What? There's another view? Please post.
- Ken Morley
I'm pretty sure it's in the collection "Never Eat Anything Bigger Than Your Head", published back in the early/mid 70s. I know I've got it around here somewhere...
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
Hahaha. Awesome sight for 'em Canadians!
- Santosh
face down and ass in the air! Love it!
- John Hillestad
Cool, except anybody who's been to Mount Rushmore knows it faces east! So really this is the view from Wyoming.
- Ben Hanten
Ben: Americans have never been known to have a sense of direction.
- Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ Ⓟⓘⓡⓘⓛⓛⓞ
Hilarious :-D
- Ace
I literally LOL'd.
- Mike Cefalo
Sarah Palin sees this from the other side of her house.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
awesome
- Nick Humphries
ahahahahahahah
- Adriano Mercurio
LMAO! :-)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
lol ... yup that's just what we see from Canada ... a bunch of asses
- jay macpherson
*access memory: Braveheart battle scene*
- Mo Kargas
Too funny!
- Mark Harai
Haha... I LOL'ed for real too.
- Barbara
wiping away tears. rofl
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
+1 Jay (not really true, but still very funny :o)
- Ken Morley
Hay I am Canadian !.....giggle
- hollyseven
How did I miss this?! HAHA
- Mona Nomura
I think somebody has a wedgie!
- caj needs a haircut
that is epic. ;)
- Philip "dmouse" Campbell
Awesome!
- Timothy Federwitz
hahahaha wtf
- tohuko
That's priceless.
- Todd Libby
Teddy has a nice butt =p
- LouCypher
where do you get this stuff from - Frank loves it
- Kathi Barrett
That is brilliant. B3TA or somewhere similar?
- dannystaple
Hahahah! Mount Rushmore as seen from Canada.
- KyNam Doan
haha ace babes xx
- abigailashleawhitaker
This is an old pic, but is still always funny to see. :)
- John Pyper
ha ha ha
- shaquille
Bump.
- Kol Tregaskes
woooowwwwww steady, sweet
- Dc L Ie
Bubble Pop: Reflection Perfection on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
Anton, Seth, Michal Cierniak and 15 other people liked this
Nice!
- misca mihaela
“Who can be funnier than machines? I decided on an early retirement when I saw these masterpieces by machine translation.” - http://friendfeed.com/e...
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ʕʘ˕̥ʘʔ Нейродинамика, Ryoko Omachi, Michelle Fullwood and Shannon Jiménez liked this
beautiful!
- Shawn Khorassani
If I tell my facebook/friendfeed/twitter friends about your brand then its not because I like your brand, but because I like my friends!
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LOL
- Mona Nomura
Dear god man... that is profound!
- Johnny
I've just figured out why I don't like reading ebooks much as reading real books. Doesn't have to do with holding the book in my hands, or nostalgia. It's that I get no sense of progress reading ebooks - incrementing page numbers is less satisfying than seeing the stack of pages on the left get thicker and the one on the right get thinner.
Business Blogger 【ツ】™, Grant Bierman, Ekin Acar Ulukok and 57 other people liked this
That does link back into the tactile sensation, though. But yeah, until they build double-screened e-book readers with accordions inside, this will be a lacking feature.
- Chris Charabaruk
seeing where you are in the book by the stained pages where you hold it ;)
- Michael W. May
Right, it does, but it's not quite the same. I enjoy holding my iPhone just as much as I enjoy holding a book. But I don't feel like I'm really reading, because there's no sense of progressing through a book - page 1 looks just the same as page 576.
- Jandy
I actually want to build my own e-book reader, now, that provides that sensation of progress. It shouldn't be hard, really...
- Chris Charabaruk
Do it, Chris! I'm waiting for electronic paper, so I can have one "book" with electronic pages that can call up any book I want. Keeps the sensation of progress and physicality, but keeps you from having to have boxes and boxes and boxes worth of books. And hyperlink functionality. That's a must.
- Jandy
What's your idea, Chris? I'm thinking of a smallish weight that's slowly cycled from the left side of the reader to the right depending on how far the user is in the book.
- Andrew C (✓)
This is one of my major reservations with buying a Kindle, even though I know getting one will increase my reading frequency.
- Andy Bakun
The tactile experience and the smell, I love the smell of print of a new book
- M F
Andy - me too! That, and the fear that I will run out of power and want to throw it across the room out of frustration.
- Katy S
Oh, or maybe electromagnets plus a metal bar. The further you've read, the more the pull moves from one side to the other.
- Andrew C (✓)
A valid point, but then... trends in modern superseding ancient, mechanical trumping manual, digital replacing analog, tell their own story. Even people, who'll swear as to preferring traditional to equivalent new, have shown time and time again that when they've stepped over some usability threshold, old loyalties are no longer a match for newly-won promises of serendipity and, yes, change for change's sake. And so it will be with e-books... because, on balance, their advantages far outweigh their bad.
- ianf ⌘
See, Ian, that's the thing - I DON'T generally prefer traditional things, am usually an early adopter, and I'm conceptually 100% for ebooks. I can easily see and enumerate their advantages. But when I sit down at night to read a bit before bed, I always grab a print book rather than an ebook, even though both my computer and iPhone are eminently handy. This is the first time I figured out why.
- Jandy
I'm there with you Jandy, and share the sentiment. So hold onto your dead tree books, even the unworthy ones, because it's quite conceivable that, as print publishing continues to stagnate, books will become a valuable, if not exclusive, commodity in the near future. Also read this informed diatribe by John Siracusa, and my couple of comments: <http://friendfeed.com/search...>
- ianf ⌘
Incidentally (in my case) I found a purely physiological reason for why I now prefer (well, maybe not e-books as such, but) reading long texts on a palmtop's screen (size of iPhone) to physical books: as my sight got weaker, and I keep tiring more easily, I discovered that the only comfortable way in which I still could read books was "naked eye" - sans my spectacles, and while lying on...
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- ianf ⌘
tiffany, you bring up a lot of good points that are also part of why I haven't bought a dedicated ebook reader. But those points are DRM-related, really, and I expect the book industry to learn from the music industry eventually that DRM is not useful. The whole sharing/borrowing thing is a legal issue rather than a physical one - it'll take a while to sort out, but I'm sure it will be someday. (Same with storage - it's just bits, so it should be simple to back up on external HDs.)
- Jandy
Yeah, tiffany, valid points indeed. If and when I'll get an iPod Touch, I plan to test the following method of e-title acquisition: apparently Amazon allows one to upload text and/or Word files which it then converts to a DRM'd "Kindle-format" e-book for private download. They charge something for that conversion, but more symbolically (I believe). I don't think there'll be any shortage of readworthy free texts anytime soon, and then there's always OCR ;-))
- ianf ⌘
Andrew C: I'm simply thinking some kind of motorized accordion to lift one side higher than the other as you work through the book.
- Chris Charabaruk
The progress bar in Ereader Pro or Mobipocket Reader works for me -- one always has a clear spatial sense of just how much one has read and how much is left to read.
- Sean McBride
@tiffany, you can also put your ebooks into storage (either on Amazon.com or on your PC). I love my Kindle, and that's not an issue.
- Piaw Na
Jandy, you haven't tried a real ebook reader (like a Kindle) yet. When you try one (like I do), you'll find yourself reaching for the Kindle instead of a paper book, and you won't be trying to figure out why ebooks don't work for you. :-) No, the ipod touch (or the android G1) is not a substitute for a true e-ink type book reader.
- Piaw Na
True, with my Kindle I read through books like I'm flipping through a magazine they're so efficient
- The Real sofarsoShawn
I still like the experience of reading a magazine. It's a nice change from reading off the screen all the time.
- Michael Fidler
Love the photo in this feed item, btw
- j1m
The "having bookcases full of books" is something I'm working on getting past also. My family always had a lot of books, when we moved, the majority of boxes were heavy with books, and it was sad when some were destroyed. There's something valuable in that. When I last moved, I got rid of a large portion of my collection, and I feel like I should get rid of more. But I can't bring myself to do it yet.
- Andy Bakun
But I bet that once I get a Kindle, all those nostalgic issues will wash away. The question still stands: I have have three really nice (yet simple) bookcases, what will I put in them? Will it still be appropriate to call them "book" cases?
- Andy Bakun
Piaw Na, you're probably right. I've so far only read ebooks on my iPhone or my computer. A Kindle might change my mind, but the cost has gotta come down first. j1m - I just Googled "book open" for images. :)
- Jandy
I also want the experience to differ between books. When I use the iPhone to read an ebook, it just seems to be more "content" in the same vague stream of content like email, web, news or whatever. Whereas a book is of a unique size, weight, paper thickness & feel, font type and size etc. These all go into the experience and memory associated with reading the book, meaning that there is a unique experience of every book.
- John Collis
from Nambu
Jandy, the cost will come down eventually. The screen's the most expensive part, and unfortunately does not conform to Moore's law.
- Piaw Na
John Collins: the Kindle does make every book potentially different. Each book can load its own font, for instance. (And I love adjustable font sizes on the Kindle)
- Piaw Na
Stanza on the iPhone shows how many pages you've read / still have to read while you're reading (it's the little gray bar at the bottom of the screen and against each book).
- Euan
Listen up, folks. When discussing e-books, could we please abstain from equating such PRIMARILY with Kindle, 'Touch or some specific e-reader's fav. UI capability? The issues @stake are more intricate than that, warrant more abstract treatment; and, as for Kindle-the-item (not Kindle the App), it's a half-hearted experiment by a master book pusher to make a stand in an emerging new market. Because of legacy and other constraints –it only works in the US– Kindle's not even a serious endeavor by the Amazon.
- ianf ⌘
Tree killer
- orionstarr
I have to say, I don't mind reading e-books using MobiPocket. Granted, real books are a preference but I've got around a thousand at my fingertips on my laptop and my smartphone. The bar indicating how far through the book I've gotten is a tangible enough analog for me to take the place of the pages turned and, unlike pulp versions, I almost always have my phone with me to read.
- Josef Finsel
from twhirl
How funny you posted this. I was just noticing how far I had gotten in the book I'm reading without realizing it. You're right, you can't get that sense of progress or accomplishment. Plus until Kindle versions are equal to or lower than mass market paperback (my fave format), I have no interest in it.
- caj needs a haircut
ianf - there's nothing half hearted about amazon's support for the kindle. A new version in just !3 months, a full blown store, and continual increase in new books for the device makes it the market reader. I also used it all year last year in Germany and this year in Australia with no issues so stop spreading FUD.
- Piaw Na
You could download e-books directly to Kindle over-the-air outside of the USA? All the e-books? If so, that's news to me and I'll retract my statement, but I bet the range of e-books elsewhere is far, far more limited that's what on offer in the US.
- ianf ⌘
Still no Kindle in UK. I'm interested to know whether scholarly book content (e.g. scientific research) is available for the Kindle? Or is it still targetted at the general consumer?
- Frank Norman
Ianf - I download books through a PC and then onto the Kindle when in foreign countries. You get the full Amazon.com selection in the US. Frank Norman: the Kindle is still targetted at the general reader. But you can peruse the Kindle store on Amazon and see if the kind of books you want are there --- I know the medical references are already starting to show up!
- Piaw Na
Wrong logick™, Piaw Na. I call Amazon half-hearted on the Kindle not out of any animosity towards them (far from it), but because I know the realities of making it a viable GLOBAL product. Amazon's mission is to sell books, content, not primarily develop gizmos on which that content can be consumed. They wanted to promote sales of e-books, and so they sponsored a product that in some...
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- ianf ⌘
little rocker - http://bitsandpieces.us/2009...
Martin Liechti, ocde.cn, dafire and 121 other people liked this
;-)
- Live4Emma (L4S)
from Bookmarklet
"Purple rain, puuuurple raaaaaiiiin"
- Rodfather
"I belieeeeve I can flyyyyyyy"
- ::Kristen::
Awwww yeah!
- Jonathan Hardesty
F*ck the police comin' straight out the underground...
- iTad
"Don't stop believin....Hold on to the feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelin...."
- Live4Emma (L4S)
"how am i supposed to live withowwwwwt youuuuu?"
- Morgan
"weeeee arree theee chaammpioonnnsss ... weeeeee aree thee chaaampiiooonnssssss..."
- deerstep
"Ken Leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. . . ."
- Dave Roth
TAKE! THESE BROKEN WINGS! (Oops. Not the venue.)
- Jared Smith
Cryy ... ha ha ha ha ... baby, cry baby, cry baby (Janis Joplin of course :))
- directeur
WIN
- Josh Haley
Michael Bolton, the early years.
- Josh Haley
this pic is great!
- Chieze Okoye
That is a soulful little baby
- Hutch Carpenter
I love the little clenched fists!
- Michelle M
Love this.
- Alan Le
HOW FLIPPIN ADORABLE
- Sean
Boorn to beee wiiiilld!
- Ozer Wrzl (EN)
"shwo me the meeeeninng off biiiiiiiiiiiiinngg loowwnnliiii"
- deerstep
how cute
- YoYo_P
hahaha +Onur Gunduz
- Anna Haro
I can't get enough of this pic...everytime I see it, I smile!
- Chieze Okoye
"I can't GET no . . . SATisFACTion!"
- Liz Tufte
d^_^b ♫♫♫
- Jay
stand back. I got this chorus!
- Alvin Woon
With feeling!
- Sean Oliver
Cute baby!
- @Renchin@
"Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something. " Robert Heinlein
Kenton, Kol Tregaskes, Michelle Fullwood and 4 other people liked this
Man Builds Chair That Tweets His Farts, Single-Handedly Justifies Twitter's Existence. http://i.gizmodo.com/5211135...
siva s, Thomas Power, Michelle Fullwood and 12 other people liked this
Twitter has jumped the fart
- C.K. Johnson
Google Accounts CAPTCHA - http://alax.info/blog/903
Lu Tao, The Amber, Rishabh Mishra (p248) and 2 other people liked this
xkcd - A Webcomic - Security Question - http://xkcd.com/#
Brent - Yes I am, JR Ignacio, Anthony Farrior and 89 other people liked this
I'll answer this one: Angeles Forest. PR be damned. There, I said it.
- Mark Davidson
Me too. So ultra clever. Sunday night highlight ;) And don't forget to read the alt text ;)
- Mona Nomura
from IM
If I had a nickel for everytime this happened...
- Mike Nayyar
How many nickels would you have, Mike?
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
Who says they're "buried"?
- ha3rvey (Hugs 50% off!)
Like that old saying goes: Imposition is the mother of arrests. Or something like that.
- Mitch
ROFL!
- Jorge Escobar
The bodies were buried by SkyNET ina little place caqlled Area 51
- Fred Grott
am i the droid you're looking for? - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
Eric Berlin, Hisham Sadek هشام, Chieze Okoye and 82 other people liked this
<333
- Live4Emma (L4S)
from Bookmarklet
Awwwwww
- Anika
So sweet <3
- Penny
They look like a match made in heaven.... <333
- Emma
<3 +1
- Melanie Jagolino
they're perfect for each other, i'm sure.... <333
- Live4Emma (L4S)
Yay!+ Love it 2
- sunipeyk
would it be too geek if i say they are clones :D makes that relation a bit too complicated
- Yunus Tunak
Yunus :)
- sunipeyk
:))
- Anna Haro
Cute even through stormtroopers aren't droids. They're clones. :P
- ·[▪_▪]·
Clones during the Clone Wars, but later they started hiring non-clones, too...
- Jemm
+100000000 to Anna Haro
- Live4Emma (L4S)
@Anna: ! I'd like to say that Star Destroyer, but the shield generators are too vulnerable.. oh, wait!
- Jemm
Anna, Funny you should post that. While some guys contemplate sports during sex, geeks use questions like that.
- ·[▪_▪]·
Kara Swisher says same leaked email has different punctuation at http://kara.allthingsd.com/2009040... -putting different typo per mail recipient as tracking?
Louis Gray, Jérôme, Joel Webber and 3 other people liked this
That was my first thought too. :) Would only take 10 differences in punctuation to watermark and identify each person at Facebook individually.
- Matt Cutts
I've often wondered whether releases are ever watermarked in this way. As you point out, not too hard to do.
- mikepk
Hard to know if it's cut-and-paste verbatim... or has it been spell checked?
- Ken Sheppardson
Come to think of it, it *is* surprising that companies don't employ text steganography to catch leaks. It probably wouldn't be hard to scramble, but you'd have to know it was there to even bother. Hmm... maybe they *do* already do this...
- Joel Webber
Some companies do.
- Count Caturday
We played around with a technique in the early 90s on the cypherpunks list of encoding data in trailing white space on lines, it works well enough, as long as the MUA or MTA don't munge the spaces. At the time, I thought something like this would become practically ubiquitous in corporate america.
- Ray Cromwell
Every company should consider sense of humor as a critical skill when hiring IT staff. - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
Shakeel Mahate, Andrew F, Ionut and 38 other people liked this
So geeky! So Fabulous!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Print Screen - um you're doin' it wrong!! LOL - http://www.zee.me/blog...
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Micah, Himanshu Prasad, JECO Photo and 109 other people liked this
hat tip to @Zee - funny!
- Susan Beebe
could be easier with lcd screens :D
- Tamer Aktaş
finally noticed the copier under the monitor. duhhh
- Tony C (Unrated)
nothing to say...
- Alihan ÇETİN
LOL - That's one way to do it!!
- Jim Connolly
HA.
- Jandy
This is one my new favorite IT related photos...too funny!
- Susan Beebe
That's how we used to do it in "the old days"
- Jesse Stay
Jesse LOL - soo that's how the copier glass was getting cracked?! Some goofball puttin' his CRT on there! AUGH! :P
- Susan Beebe
LOL
- Moses Kpetigo
LOL
- Mona Nomura
I had to like it too.
- Richard A.
Imagine tech support having to deal with this if a user requests for help with this type of "print screen."
- imabonehead
LOL !!!! what's that :D
- Alp
LMAO!!
- petar vucetin
omg, lol!
- Nicholas Kreidberg
"How do I save?" "You press the ctrl, alt, and del buttons." Who can tell me what show thats from? :)
- Shawn Whitmire
Willow. ♥
- Lix
Yes.... thats the character.... but what SHOW?
- Shawn Whitmire
I was being hinty. :D
- Lix
That is fantastic! Better than a butt copy!
- Martha
Weird event of the day: Just moments ago I got into an elevator. As the door was closing... the elevator rang, and the Call button lit up. It only rang once, and then a voice came on, and said something along the lines of "This is not an attempt to collect debt. If you however...
Amanda Nance, Daniel Dulitz, Richard Chen and 10 other people liked this
"... are having problems with debt, we can help. Our service allows people to...." And so on. It freaked the hell out of me. I got right back out of the elevator and took the stairs :) Anyhow, now I want to find the phone number that connects to the elevator, so I can spook other people.
- Shannon Bauman
That is spooky. My weird event of the day is having two different friends randomly flying on my flight to Boston... *in the same row.* Are you listening M. Night Shamalamadingdong?
- Keith Pelczarski
Mushishi - http://likaholix.com/ronin...
Michelle Fullwood, Victor Ryden 美久太阿, John Wang and 3 other people liked this
LOL is that the name of the show? For the record: "mushi" = BUG.
- Mona Nomura
SAEBA! You are my number 1 source for great anime! Thank you! :D
- vijay
Yup, that's the name of the show. And yeah, the mushi are rather bug-like. =)
- ronin
Have You Ever Failed? - http://www.feld.com/wp...
Pete D, Zee., Ho John Lee and 22 other people liked this
I've been reflecting a lot recently on failure. One of the biggest problems with Boston's startup scene is that they don't take failure in the same way as out in Si Valley.
- mikepk
Everyone fails. Multiple times. It's about failing in new and interesting ways, learning from failure and how you accept the failure which is the key to success!
- Mona Nomura
If I had never failed how would I recognize success?
- Jack&Cleo
Lessons Learned is a term of art in project management. We value gleening all we can from mistakes so we learn and don't repeat them.
- Susan Beebe
Of course I've failed. And ... remember, fail 6 times out of 10 and you're in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
- AJ Kohn
Yes, and it scares me silly.
- Vicky
Yep loads of times
- Thomas Power
Don't most people redefine success instead of declare failure?
- Mr. Gunn
I credit my failures with any success since then. Yep, twice ... both big time
- Charlie Anzman
i fail at trying to get on digg every day
- Allen Stern
Don't Speak the Language? You Can Still Participate. - http://www.louisgray.com/live...
Michelle Fullwood, Bruce Lewis, Mike Fruchter and 12 other people liked this
Louis Gray's innlegg er mye tanke å tale om oversette. :)
- Andrew Smith
Andrew, teraz możesz tylko przyczyną problemów.
- Louis Gray
Jag försöker bara vara rolig i slumpvis språk.
- Andrew Smith
Thanks, Louis. It´s not usual that english speakers concerns on this matter. Very good conversation
- dreig
Kelebihan kami sebagai pembicara non-bahasa Inggris adalah kami bisa berbahasa Inggris ; )
- LouCypher
Using Tweetdeck's translation interface gives insight to how the real-time web can build bridges for multi-language conversations.
- Brad Kligerman
The 'translate' feature of Ubiquity is ideal for webpages with mixed languages.
- Jer White
Frozen Wave - http://www.snopes.com/photos...
vijay, Mark Andrew Catton, Yolanda and 19 other people liked this
O_O
- Anna Haro
very cool pics - cool, get it? lol
- BEX
Interesting :)
- deerstep
Bex LOL YOU DORK haha!
- Mona Nomura
haha, bex... they are cool. i cant beleive it can be so cold that a massive amount of water can freeze in an instant. cannot compute
- Melissa Maskevich
Happy Face Math
Parth Awasthi, Tapio Kulmala, vijay and 31 other people liked this
Nice
- Neal "thePuck" Jansons
sin(:)) made me laugh-out-loud :o)
- Ken Morley
Very clever. :D
- Andrew Trinh
Cute <3
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That's great. By coincidence, my 8-year-old decided that the unknown value in the proto-equations she's studying must always be wriitten down as a smiley face. 'x' just doesn't do it for her.
- Henry Gee
Awww...that's cute, Henry. :-)
- Anna Haro
Aw, that is cute, Henry. If I'd thought along those lines at that age (and grasped algebra), I bet I would have gone for more of a frowny face.
- Andrew C (✓)
Very gradual change we can can believe in - http://www.mikero.com/blog...
urdumania1, Satoshi Hayakawa, Niraj and 142 other people liked this
L O L
- Josh Haley
hahahah!
- Susan Beebe
big thumbs up
- MikeAmundsen
Genius.
- Ken Norton
Hilarious!
- Chieze Okoye
Haha that's great...I don't believe in either change though :/
- Jonathan Brown
Love!
- Rob Schonberger
Hilarious ... especially under any change management aspects
- joergkurtwegner
Excellent! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I don't believe in evolution either. Also gravity. Also, the world is flat and the sun is really a chariot being pulled across the sky.
- dpurrington
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Don't be ridiculous - it's an ox cart, not a chariot.
- Hayes Haugen
This is HYSTERICAL!!!!
- Patricia F. Anderson
err neither. The world is a slightly convex disc resting on the back of four elephants, which stand on the back of the Great A'Tuin
- Deepak Singh
wow, so rational.
- anna sauce
Yeah - I purchased that specific shirt when someone tweeted it yesterday. It's fabulous!
- Daniel Brown
@deepak Elephants? I thought it was a turtle? Oops, sry, wrong continent...
- Jim Hardy
They need to sell these as embroidery files that can be stitched onto the academicals or stole.
- Jim Hardy
Language Log » The directed graph of stereotypical incomprehensibility - http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll...
Maitani, Michelle Fullwood, Anke and Ryoko Omachi liked this
"When an English speaker doesn't understand a word one says, it's "Greek to me". When a Hebrew speaker encounters this difficulty, it "sounds like Chinese". I've been told the Korean equivalent is "sounds like Hebrew"....And here's (some of) the information in the Wikipedia and Omniglot tables, presented as a directed graph courtesy of graphviz:"
- Shannon Jiménez
Larger version of the graph at the link-- turns out Chinese is the most popular "incomprehensible" language.
- Shannon Jiménez
Very interesting. Indeed, we, the Japanese, probably do not quote other language(s) to say that we do not understand a word.
- Ryoko Omachi
We Germans either say "To me, it appears Spanish", "For me, that's Bohemian villages", or "All I understand is railway station". We ARE weird :-)
- Anke
A Turkish speaker says "I'm feeling French." Wonder where that comes from..
- Elif Durmaz
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