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Monthly Archives: November 2011
A Sarcasm Detector
From the Smithsonian, via @HankFortener, comes this useful information: Actually, scientists are finding that the ability to detect sarcasm really is useful. For the past 20 years, researchers from linguists to psychologists to neurologists have been studying our ability to … Continue reading
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Tagged christmas, family, hank fortener, sarcasm, science, smithsonian, thanksgiving
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Headline Says It All
The UK C|Net brings us this: Man arrested at Large Hadron Collider claims he’s from the future A would-be saboteur arrested today at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland made the bizarre claim that he was from the future. Eloi … Continue reading
Sarah Palin on Crony Capitalism
I was delighted to read Sarah Palin’s op-ed in the Wall Street Journal. This piece deals with the topic of Crony Capitalism, which she also addressed in her September 3 Iowa speech: … They talk endlessly about cutting government spending, … Continue reading
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Tagged capitalism, cronyism, palin, politics, sarah palin, washington
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Shatner’s “The Captains”
I watched William Shatner‘s documentary The Captains the other night. The concept is simple: Shatner, the actor who played the captain in the original Star Trek series, goes around interviewing the actors who played captains in the later series. Here’s … Continue reading
Ubuntu Mono Font
It’s been a fair while since I mentioned my search for the perfect monospaced font to use in Terminal.app, MacVim, and similar apps. But there’s a new contender: Ubuntu Mono. (Click the picture for a bigger version.) (Gruber kind of … Continue reading
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Tagged fonts, mono, monospaced, terminal, typeface, ubuntu
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Still Waiting for the Kindle
Well, I won’t get my Kindle Touch until Monday, but at least now that the Fire reviews have all posted, people are beginning to talk about the Touch: Awkward delays arise, and repainting of the e-Ink screen sometimes lags. But, … Continue reading
Where’s My Kindle?!?
So I got a new Kindle Touch for my birthday last month. Except I didn’t actually get it. I just got a promise it would eventually arrive someday Real Soon Now. That’s okay. I can cope with delayed gratification. Except … Continue reading
Typographic Sweet Spot
This is cute: an average font, created by averaging all the letters in hundreds of different fonts. It’s called AverÃa, and it’s free. Try it out!