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Nov 14, 20050

You say “88″ and I say “Hello”

Some call it bastardization; some call it social degradation. I call it evolution. Today I was reading an article about the internet savvy Chinese. They have adapted various puns when on the internet. Take ‘88′, to us english speaking crackers it’s just a number; even to the formal trained linguist of the orient, it’s a number. But not for the text messengers. It turns out ‘8′ is pronounced ba. So put two 8’s together and you get ba-ba. Sounds a lot like inky or winky ( or what-ever the tele-tubbies names are) say good-bye right before jumping down their trippy little rabbit hole.

I say good on them. It’s like vulgar language of the 60’s and like the ‘n’ word for Dave Chappelle and rap. It’s evolution, it’s word play. There has always been a verbal and written language. Take a look at Carmina Burana. A bunch of young teens writing in the formal written verse about sex and drugs and alcohol (Gasp!) ? And Shakespeare inventing words that are still used to this day, oh my!

People need to play with language, they need to experiment and try new things. Hell english alone is one of the choppiest, band-aide languages out their. And it’s evolving. And just because people are using it in internet slang doesn’t mean it will end up being formal. Do you think for a moment that the common folk of the late 1500’s - early 1600’s actually spoke like the play’s? No…but they understood, just like we do now. So I say good for them, and good for all of those out there that are pioneers and play with words.

Aug 16, 20050

Laser from your eyes

Check out this simple, yet highly addictive game called reflections. After an hour or so, you’ll be shooting lasers out of your eye because they will either be from your god like feeling of triumph or demonic rage of frustration.

Aug 14, 20050

Stumbling through the internet

Rather then surfing through the internet, lately I’ve been stumbling. It’s a nifty idea of sharing cool sites I’ve come across and sharing like minded topics. Depending on the variety of your topics, you could be stumbling for hours. Plus the list is always growing. All you need to do, is say you like a site, and “viola” it’s added.

Jul 4, 20051

PodCasts Popular?

It seems that with the launch of the new Podcast Subscriptions through
iTunes, they had more then One Million
subscribers in less 2 days. That’s just the number of subscribers. How
many are out there that submitted their podcasts?

I must admit, it’s something that I’ve been thinking about. Could I
have some form of regular weekly PodCast? I’ve got the software and the
hardware to do it…hmmm. Maybe something for the idea block, maybe I
could piggy back between blogging and podding.

Feb 28, 20050

What my brother finds

Just when I finish a post about todays needed distraction, my borther sends me this. Now I’m going to be sining “It’s peanut butter jelley time!” for the next couple of days. Nice.

Feb 16, 200516

End Of Ze World

Saw this on The Hour last night. Who plays this on the air? I guess George does.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8222623539979848150

update: Jeremy mentioned that this was on google video. Here is an alternative link to Google video

Feb 16, 20051

What’s a Passface

Now this is a nifty idea, instead of using passwords as secutiry, Real User suggests, why not faces? Give it a shot.

Feb 7, 20050

Dollars and AdSense

I’ve just received the approval for Google’s AdSense Program. I finished reading their legal agreements, which for some reason reminded me of the first 2 rules of Fight Club. And after a few clicks, and some javascript pasting…voala! So for those of you seeing the site, and not reading through some sort of aggrigator, down the left you’ll see the difference. I’m not exactly sure how beneficial for me or how it will turn out but we’ll see wont we. But why should I add advertising? There are a few of reasons:

Why not?
Why not ( ah, fight club )?
I had the space for it.
It’s a win-win when it comes to the money part. It’s free for me, and could translate into dollars in the pocket. After all, I pay good coin for my hosting, and this will help towards it.

So click away my friend, click away!

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Feb 6, 20050