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Posted in Alan K on Jan 31st, 2011
Another quick note on Alan’s colorful writing. He got an article on linguistic color references published in Language magazine. “Language” has a fancy Flash-powered web-as-magazine interface, complete with flippy paper sounds. I can’t link you deep into it (which I suppose is how they want it), so you’ll just have to open it up and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 27th, 2011
The standard joke about clean power from nuclear fusion is that it’s about 30 years away and it always will be. Given this state of affairs, I had pretty much given up on the fusion story happening this century. This made the gloomy prognostication about our ravenous energy future and its attendant carbon burden all [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 20th, 2011
As we emerge from our post-holiday hangovers, here’s a nice green gift idea to keep in mind: the Anti-Gift Certificate. For that special someone who could use a little more less. I first saw this on BlogLESS. The artist who designed it is Christopher Gideon, and he’s happy to let you download a copy for [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 16th, 2011
In honor of Wikipedia’s tenth birthday, Clay Shirky has written a nice note for the Guardian about that now venerable internet institution: Wikipedia – an unplanned miracle. Wikipedia is so very good and its appearance and continued existence is so surprising that I sometimes think that, like a self-creating god, it plucked itself out of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 11th, 2011
Here’s another TED talk, this time from Australia, on the topic of consumption. The speaker, Rachel Botsman, talks about a new form of consumption that might help us deal with the Ponzi scheme of an “economy built on hyper-consumption.” It’s an odd thing that growth is always considered good in the business pages, and yet [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 4th, 2011
Language scholar Alan Kennedy has written here many times, and I’m honored to host his Color/Language Project on this site. Alan is fascinated with the ways color crops up in languages, and during his investigations of the subject, he learned that there really isn’t any complete collection of color idioms in all languages. So he [...]
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