There’s poetry in everything, including the user comments of NYTimes.com’s most popular blogs. Darryl Campbell investigates the web’s unlikely poetry community.
To borrow a line from a certain crazy old hermit, comments sections on web pages are wretched hives of scum and villainy, and the last place you’d expect to encounter the internet equivalent of a literary coteri...
Nem kérdés már, hogy lesz-e helye a jövőben az ezer könyvet tárolni képes e-könyv-olvasóknak. A könyves szakma már előre menekül: digitális olvasót adott ki Amerika legnagyobb terjeszője, a Barnes&Noble, három változatban is a piacon van az Amazon Kindle, az Apple pedig legújabb kütyüjét, az iPadet próbálja a könyvek és magazinok megmentőjeként beállítani. Nincs azonban válasz arra a kérdésre,...
Nagy rejtélyek ezek, Laci. Igazságod vagyon, kodifikálhatták volna a szótárszerkesztők a rossz nyelvet, mint a baloldalt, idiomatizálódott összetételnek is, de hát idiomatizálódott szószerkezetnek kodifikálták. Hogy miért? A válasz egyértelmű: csak.
Azt hiszed hülyéskedtem, amikor azt mondtam, hogy Gizi ki tudná nyitni a teraszajtót, ha könnyebben járna a kilincse?
Mondjuk, azt a kifejezést érdemes tanulmányozni a fején. Az van benne, hogy ‘Én itt majd megszakadok, te meg fényképezel ajtónyitás helyett?’.
TJ Avery built a gigantic model of the Pennybacker Bridge for TexLUG ’s display at South by Southwest last weekend. This impressive 14,000 piece model supports its own ~40 pound weight without external supports or glue. Check out the Flickr set for more pictures.
Want to market your awesome new theory of the future, but can't come up with a buzzword? This spiffy chart can help. [via Russell Davies (no not the Doctor Who one)]
Random Footage Of Lost Cast Members Saying “Mmm… Cake” of the Day: Today’s installment of Random Footage Of Lost Cast Members Saying “Mmm… Cake” features Jorge Garcia, Elizabeth Mitchell, Yunjin Kim and Michael Emerson.
Lost? Yeah, that’s kind of the point.
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At last night's 2010 Syfy Upfront Party in New York, the ridiculously charming Warehouse 13 stars Eddie McClintock and Joanne Kelly hinted at who'll be guest-starring next season, and which villains await agents Pete Lattimer and Myka Bering.
First off, it's gotta be said that McClintock and Kelly have a great rapport. Rarely is an answer just an answer - rather, it's a ping-pong game of quips...
A change in the unit reading policy of file sizes in Ubuntu 10.04 is causing some confusion amongst early adpoters. Previously Ubuntu showed 1MB as 1024 (1 MiB). Now it displays 1MB to be 1000KB. Example An Ubuntu .iso will now read 708MB in Lucid but 675MB in Karmic. Result Jenny Silver notices her freshly download Ubuntu .iso is 708MB. Alarm bells ring – her CD-R ha...
Wikileaks, a Web site aims to boost government transparency and accountability by publishing sensitive documents, has released a classified military counterintelligence analysis report that discusses the "threat posed to the US Army" by Wikileaks itself.
The report outlines this perceived threat and contends that the military security could be put at risk if classified information is made avail...
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CollegeHumor Original of the Day: Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before St. Patrick’s Day .
BRB, moving to St. Patrick’s Day Town.
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Episode 8: Zach sits down with Ben Stiller
We've pointed to numerous studies , at this point, that have all found that, when done right, free ebooks can greatly increase the sales of physical books (and, in some cases, even of ebooks). Here's another empirical example of that in action. Chris Anderson points us to a blog post by someone at a mid-list niche publisher, talking about how successful its experiments with "free" ebooks hav...