Hey, I enjoyed both Dark Angel and Sin City, so I’m not anti-Jessica Alba, but whoever decided she would be an appropriate replacement for America Ferrera to star as a math genius is obviously a moron.
This is exactly what I’ve always wanted from a cell phone.
* It’s cheap
* There’s no contract
* It does email
* It’s not a phone.
Hot. I f***ing hate phones.
You would think the New York Times would be, if not smart enough, at least Eurocentrist enough not to perpetuate this kind of BS…
See nonsensical Yoga-induced language-gasm here.
Of course “Yogi” doesn’t apply equally to males and females. Sanskrit has three genders, you don’t think they’d let “yogi” get by without creating a proper feminine version? It’s even a form (yogini, the last “i” being long) that the New Age set knows about, although they almost always mispronounce it.
Yabha that shit…
The Dexter, a mountain breed from Ireland, is perfect for cattle-keeping on a small scale, but other breeds are being artificially created to compete with it, including the Mini-Hereford and the Lowline Angus
Miniature cattle - family pets that provide milk - Boing Boing
If Georgia can plug that hole, get creative with their air defense assets, kill a whole mess of Russians, and force this thing into a winter overtime — I wouldn’t be surprised if the international community forces a peace favorable to the Georgians.
In the immortal words of the film Six-String Samurai, only one man could kill that many Russians.
Will Shetterly has an interesting post about boing boing’s handling of comments and something called (god help us all) “disemvoweling.”
“Xeni owes BB’s readers a new post so the readers who fell for this hoax will know the truth.â€
“If you have any respect for AI, please make a new post to let all BB readers know the truth.â€
Avram Grumer explained at #257, “Will, I’ve partially disemvoweled your cts #246 and 248. Do not presume to tell Xeni (or the other Boingers) what to post about.â€
disemvoweling and the law: copyright, fair use, and defamation « it’s all one thing
Shetterly’s a bit of a crank, and his comment style is even a bit trollish, but he has interesting things to say, and in this case, he’s brought to my attention this thing called disemvoweling. Which has to be among the stupidest things ever to emerge from the reeking bowels of the internet.
Per Wikipedia:
In the fields of Internet discussion and forum moderation, disemvoweling (also spelled disemvowelling), which appears to model the word disemboweling, is the removal of vowels from text either as a method of self-censorship, or as a technique by forum moderators and newsgroup operators to censor unwanted posting….
Regarding the use of disemvoweling to police internet blog comment sections, Xeni Jardin, co-editor of Boing Boing, says of the practice, “the dialogue stays, but the misanthrope looks ridiculous, and the emotional sting is neutralized.”
That is spectacularly stupid. If someone is being a misanthrope in your comments, they already look ridiculous. Removing the vowels from their comment makes you look ridiculous.
Shetterly takes the whole thing a bit far down the legal road, to well past the absurdity mark, but he does have a valid point. If a comment bothers you, delete it, dmbss.