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The Yellow Test — On nonfiction narrative structures. (Via David Goldman.)
Learn English online: How the internet is changing language — A language belongs to the people who speak it. All of them. (Via Daily Idioms, Annotated.)
Utopian for Beginners — An amateur linguist loses control of the language he invented.
Fighting may have shaped evolution of human hand
Holey metal, Batman! Extraordinary optics make it appear transparent — Two wave types contribute to extraordinary optical transmission through metal.
Sound Signature — A forensic database of electrical sounds is thus being developed by UK police, according to the BBC. This is some weird stuff.
Man shot at St. Pete pizza joint had been complaining about slow service — Yep, I definitely feel safer with people walking the streets with guns. Don't you?
Sixth-grader in Utah brings gun to school to avoid Connecticut-style attack, district spokesman says — Yep. More guns will definitely solve this problem. An armed society is a polite society, right? Ask any Somalian or Afghani.
?otD: I got nothing
12/20/2012
Writing time yesterday: 0.0 hours (chemo brain)
Hours slept: 10.0 hours (9.0 hours solid, 1.0 hour napping)
Body movement: 0.5 hours (30 minutes on the stationary bike)
Weight: 213.2
Number of FEMA troops on my block confiscating firearms and shutting down the Internet: 0
Currently reading: The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks
Learn English online: How the internet is changing language — A language belongs to the people who speak it. All of them. (Via Daily Idioms, Annotated.)
Utopian for Beginners — An amateur linguist loses control of the language he invented.
Fighting may have shaped evolution of human hand
Holey metal, Batman! Extraordinary optics make it appear transparent — Two wave types contribute to extraordinary optical transmission through metal.
Sound Signature — A forensic database of electrical sounds is thus being developed by UK police, according to the BBC. This is some weird stuff.
Man shot at St. Pete pizza joint had been complaining about slow service — Yep, I definitely feel safer with people walking the streets with guns. Don't you?
Sixth-grader in Utah brings gun to school to avoid Connecticut-style attack, district spokesman says — Yep. More guns will definitely solve this problem. An armed society is a polite society, right? Ask any Somalian or Afghani.
?otD: I got nothing
12/20/2012
Writing time yesterday: 0.0 hours (chemo brain)
Hours slept: 10.0 hours (9.0 hours solid, 1.0 hour napping)
Body movement: 0.5 hours (30 minutes on the stationary bike)
Weight: 213.2
Number of FEMA troops on my block confiscating firearms and shutting down the Internet: 0
Currently reading: The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks