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Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Sunday, December 27, 2009
End of 2009 misc, aka, I need to purge my bookmarks
Comics commissioned by the US government on various topics
Merlot, a collection of learning resources: I'm not sure what all is here, but on initial review it's a dabbler's wet dream. Led me to a course on medical ethics, called "Everyday Ethics for Nurses," which features (so far) a historical review of medical ethics practices that can only be described as deeply, intensely fucked up. Experimentation on the orphans and the mentally handicapped etc on the part of Americans during WWII, a subsequent code of ethics that apparently only applies to Nazis, and a real-life death panel who would let people die based on number of children, marital status, religious affiliation, etc, and I'm not even past 1962. A truly remarkable crash course in so many things that no one talks about that it seems like a peek into an alternative universe.
Carla and a friend A snake makes friends with a rat. Other artistic endeavors on the same site included mending spiders' webs with thread and making genealogical trees out of airplane pictures.
Garrison Keeler was an advice columnist for quite awhile
Make your own free online flash cards with Studystack
Merlot, a collection of learning resources: I'm not sure what all is here, but on initial review it's a dabbler's wet dream. Led me to a course on medical ethics, called "Everyday Ethics for Nurses," which features (so far) a historical review of medical ethics practices that can only be described as deeply, intensely fucked up. Experimentation on the orphans and the mentally handicapped etc on the part of Americans during WWII, a subsequent code of ethics that apparently only applies to Nazis, and a real-life death panel who would let people die based on number of children, marital status, religious affiliation, etc, and I'm not even past 1962. A truly remarkable crash course in so many things that no one talks about that it seems like a peek into an alternative universe.
Carla and a friend A snake makes friends with a rat. Other artistic endeavors on the same site included mending spiders' webs with thread and making genealogical trees out of airplane pictures.
Garrison Keeler was an advice columnist for quite awhile
Make your own free online flash cards with Studystack
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Charts and lists
Maybe I will stop tagging everything. Maybe I will make one tag and it is called awesome. In any case, at least for this entry, the only tag is awesome because I don't think these fit anywhere.
They are all charts or list-type things so at least they are related to each other in some fashion!
First we have an article that I have completely ignored and you should too. Just look at the little charts diagramming Sarah Palin's sentences.
Ferris Bueller is a point of contention with myself and somebody else I can't remember. Some people apparently think that Ferris was a smug little no-good shit. When I remember who that person is, I will show them the list of crimes committed by Ferris Bueller on his day off.
The list of presidential election candidates does not look so special until you start looking at the party names. Ideally, start at the bottom where there are regular party names such as "Democrat" and "Republican." Then start working your way up.
Highlights:
1792
1824 ("Parties? Eh. Can't be bothered.")
The "Antimasonic" party
On the more risque side of things, here is a beautiful chart of good and bad things to say during sex.
Want yet even more lists? Try Listopia: The Home of the List
They are all charts or list-type things so at least they are related to each other in some fashion!
First we have an article that I have completely ignored and you should too. Just look at the little charts diagramming Sarah Palin's sentences.
Ferris Bueller is a point of contention with myself and somebody else I can't remember. Some people apparently think that Ferris was a smug little no-good shit. When I remember who that person is, I will show them the list of crimes committed by Ferris Bueller on his day off.
The list of presidential election candidates does not look so special until you start looking at the party names. Ideally, start at the bottom where there are regular party names such as "Democrat" and "Republican." Then start working your way up.
Highlights:
1792
1824 ("Parties? Eh. Can't be bothered.")
The "Antimasonic" party
On the more risque side of things, here is a beautiful chart of good and bad things to say during sex.
Want yet even more lists? Try Listopia: The Home of the List
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Wikipedia hopping
Reverse Polish Notation: never thought about it, but apparently 1+2=3 isn't the only kind of math grammar out there.
Vocabulary words: charette, progesterex the fake date rape drug, parkour some city hoppity jumpy sport city folk have probably heard of. But I can tell you I haven't seen much of that around here.
Ghoulardi and his sucessor, Ron Sweed, also known as "The Ghoul." Note the part where young Ron gets an internship with Ghoulardi using the time honored method of wearing a gorilla suit.
The entire article on Damien Hirst is hilarious.
And behind the scenes, on the talk page for corset, a saga unfolds: a years-long, slow, painful battle between the people who want to write an article about corsets, and an earnest Danish user bearing an unspeakably huge grudge against all things corset.
Armed with 15 billion pictures and misguided intermediate English supplemented by something Babelfishy, user Haabet wreaks havoc on all aspects of the article.
Sometimes painful, sometimes funny, maybe heartwarming somewhere (?) it would be a real page-turner if it were, you know, on paper.
Vocabulary words: charette, progesterex the fake date rape drug, parkour some city hoppity jumpy sport city folk have probably heard of. But I can tell you I haven't seen much of that around here.
Ghoulardi and his sucessor, Ron Sweed, also known as "The Ghoul." Note the part where young Ron gets an internship with Ghoulardi using the time honored method of wearing a gorilla suit.
The entire article on Damien Hirst is hilarious.
And behind the scenes, on the talk page for corset, a saga unfolds: a years-long, slow, painful battle between the people who want to write an article about corsets, and an earnest Danish user bearing an unspeakably huge grudge against all things corset.
Armed with 15 billion pictures and misguided intermediate English supplemented by something Babelfishy, user Haabet wreaks havoc on all aspects of the article.
Sometimes painful, sometimes funny, maybe heartwarming somewhere (?) it would be a real page-turner if it were, you know, on paper.
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Mysteries
Here are some mysterious mysteries.
Bugs is just 1 year shy of a quarter century!
Who are these people? Apparently Bugs has just turned 25, but why is everyone ending their post with not-so-well-known words such as "agagagagag," "bibibibibi," and "cecececece?"
Theories:
Because this site is called Raoul's China Saloon, perhaps the board is for ex-pats in China, and the agagag-ing is a way of expressing applause or cheering? Either online Chinese slang or something from offline. Do Chinese people say "agagag" at each other on their birthdays?
OK: yes, looks like it is for ex-pats judging by the other discussions.
A search for "agagagagag" turned up some other stuff, but also another page from Raoul's China Saloon. Again, some people are agagag-ing here for somebody else's birthday.
So, we've established they are ex-pats, that "agagag" is appropriate at least for birthdays, and that Raoul's China Saloon is one of the main places agagag-ing occurs.
My guess is either: Chinese slang that doesn't show up in English web results because it's in Chinese characters, OR
Slang specific to Raoul's China Saloon, and the rest of the results I saw were people screwing with keyboards, OR
something else. But it is 1:45 in the morning and I shouldn't try to investigate it further now.
Bugs is just 1 year shy of a quarter century!
Who are these people? Apparently Bugs has just turned 25, but why is everyone ending their post with not-so-well-known words such as "agagagagag," "bibibibibi," and "cecececece?"
Theories:
Because this site is called Raoul's China Saloon, perhaps the board is for ex-pats in China, and the agagag-ing is a way of expressing applause or cheering? Either online Chinese slang or something from offline. Do Chinese people say "agagag" at each other on their birthdays?
OK: yes, looks like it is for ex-pats judging by the other discussions.
A search for "agagagagag" turned up some other stuff, but also another page from Raoul's China Saloon. Again, some people are agagag-ing here for somebody else's birthday.
So, we've established they are ex-pats, that "agagag" is appropriate at least for birthdays, and that Raoul's China Saloon is one of the main places agagag-ing occurs.
My guess is either: Chinese slang that doesn't show up in English web results because it's in Chinese characters, OR
Slang specific to Raoul's China Saloon, and the rest of the results I saw were people screwing with keyboards, OR
something else. But it is 1:45 in the morning and I shouldn't try to investigate it further now.
The Wikipedia article for simple columnar epithelia still has, as of this writing, some of the mysterious Korean that was there the first time I looked at it. 그딴거 없어 꺼져 at the bottom of the page is still there. The first time around, it was 장준보 in one spot, and then 그딴거 없어 꺼져 at the bottom.
I went to quite a few Korean-->English translators. The first one said the two phrases meant "The Jang...I'm dying," which was enormously creepy. Others also said something about a Jang and then something about shit.
Either Wikipedia is being haunted by a ghost trying to speak to Jang, or some young Korean hooligan is telling his friend Jang to eat shit.
Or maybe some American hooligan is trying to tell John to eat shit and sent it through an English-->Korean translator, then put it on Wikipedia. The English version will never be recovered because it was mangled in translation.
The world shall never know!
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I went to quite a few Korean-->English translators. The first one said the two phrases meant "The Jang...I'm dying," which was enormously creepy. Others also said something about a Jang and then something about shit.
Either Wikipedia is being haunted by a ghost trying to speak to Jang, or some young Korean hooligan is telling his friend Jang to eat shit.
Or maybe some American hooligan is trying to tell John to eat shit and sent it through an English-->Korean translator, then put it on Wikipedia. The English version will never be recovered because it was mangled in translation.
The world shall never know!
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Saturday, June 27, 2009
American Memory from the Library of Congress
American Memory from LOC gets its own entry because it's amazing.
A small sample of what you can find from here:
Read and watch the history of Coca Cola ads
See WPA Posters
Listen to audio of interviews with former slaves
Search for old railroad maps by state
Look at women's suffrage photos
It goes on and on. Just click on a subject and go.
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A small sample of what you can find from here:
Read and watch the history of Coca Cola ads
See WPA Posters
Listen to audio of interviews with former slaves
Search for old railroad maps by state
Look at women's suffrage photos
It goes on and on. Just click on a subject and go.
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Eye Candy Miscellaneous
Sgt Pepper Cast of CharactersUnconscious Blue and other art type things. Site design is great.
Rarg Animated Short scared and fascinated me when I was a very young kid. I've spent at least 15 years trying to find a place to watch it again, and here it is.
Weirdest Looking Blog Ever (seemingly populated by cousins to Domo-kun)
Nurture by Steelcase, beautiful site and some interesting ideas about space
Vidcat Archive of fashion videos from 1950 to present
Ad*Access, an image database of print ads 1911-1955. Highlights include the "feminine hygiene" ads, which are all horrific. "There's a womanly offense--Greater than body odor or bad breath!"
Rarg Animated Short scared and fascinated me when I was a very young kid. I've spent at least 15 years trying to find a place to watch it again, and here it is.
Weirdest Looking Blog Ever (seemingly populated by cousins to Domo-kun)
Nurture by Steelcase, beautiful site and some interesting ideas about space
Vidcat Archive of fashion videos from 1950 to present
Ad*Access, an image database of print ads 1911-1955. Highlights include the "feminine hygiene" ads, which are all horrific. "There's a womanly offense--Greater than body odor or bad breath!"
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