Month: April 2007
[Wave of the phin to Dean Barnett for the pointer on HotAir.]
A few moments ago, I was watching Seinfeld, folding some clothes, and I looked down at my attire for the day: hemp-dyed Kauai t-shirt, khaki cargo shorts, Invisible Children reed bracelet, and new Keen sandals, and the title for this post was what sprang to my mind.
Somebody help me.
“Quemadmoeum gladuis neminem occidit, occidentis telum est.” –Lucius Annaeus Seneca, circa 45 AD
Translation: “A sword is never a killer, it is a tool in the killer’s hands.”
Just thought this might be somewhat relevant to political and cultural debates we’re having two thousand years later.
“Arctic Monkeys see slower sales for new album”
I guess they gave up trying to come up with Shakespeare.
I’m not sure if there’s anything to the fact that as George Thorogood’s “Who Do You Love?” was playing, I came across Steve’s great poem, “my convenient social gospel”, but regardless, it’s a good poem. Thanks, Steve!
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Home of the ExpoDisc white balance solution.
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Good overview article from the SF Chronicle on Twitter, though I like to call the individual Twitter messages “tweets”, not “twitters”.
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Corner.js 1.0 allows you to add corners to webpage images. It uses unobtrusive javascript to keep your code clean. It works in all the major browsers – Mozilla Firefox 1.5+, Opera 9+ and Safari. On older browsers and Internet Explorer, it’ll degrade and your viewers won’t know the difference.
I found Annalee Newitz’s article on Twitter fascinating, including this breakdown of time:
+ Twitter time: every minute
+ Blog time: every few hours
+ Newspaper time: every day
There’s also a mention of “book time” in the one-line bio at the end of the piece, which I suppose one could translate in to meaning “every few days”, given how long the average person devotes to getting through a tome.
I also thought about how one might define the 24-hour news cycle. Would “CNN time” be defined as “every second”?