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.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
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