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The kind of ‘formal’ language interogations that makes a lot of sense to me or at least it draws my attention a lot lately – like how do you spell/capitalise/prefix the word internet:
the internet
internet
Internet
the Internet
now i will wonder about two more parameters: in or on.
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“i work in ubiquitous computing”
Often bemused by the “on the internet” versus “in the internet” debate, it’s intriguing that the only person we can find who refers to “i work in ubiquitous computing” was late Mark Weiser (see on his website).
** Christophe Guignard from Fabric.ch during a talk by Eric Sadin (Times of the Signs) once noted the different spelling of connection (physically attached) and connexion (close but not touching eachother) in french and english.
October 05, 2008
Categories: language, thinking loud
Tags: curiosity, language, meaning, translation, words
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* i really like those utf 8 symbols – it feels like language shortcuts.
September 21, 2008
Categories: typography
Tags: icon, language, text, utf8
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I just twitted “an #API for humans” ( http://twitter.com/jrgd/statuses/839669544 ); one could extend this to a TOS.
API stands for Application Program Interface, a set of instruction to interact with a distant application. TOS stands for Terms Of Services, which defines what one can expect from an online service, more generally, the TOS list the rules within an online community. Applying those terms to human interaction may seems weird but it’s interesting to see that somehow it is what could be called Politeness, Respect and civilised exchange. Maybe sometimes, this should a bit more formalised, written black on white, carefully respected to ensure all parts of an interaction can expect a decent way of communicating.
June 20, 2008
Categories: thinking loud
Tags: behaviour, interaction, language, method, process
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from the comment: The full admin app also scales blog post text by calculating “em” sizes based on the slider value.
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Beyond the “uniqueness” of individual works, he tried to discover their common structural properties after noticing that characters in great fiction evolved in a system of relationships otherwise common to the wider generality of novels.
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An unlikely row has erupted in France over suggestions that the semicolon’s days are numbered
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UNIX pipes (treated semantically as writing to temporary files) are quite similar to monads. Furthermore, at the level of UNIX programming, all i/o can be regarded monadic.
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That’s what you can find here: a wonderful repository of documents related to computer and culture at large
April 10, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: *****, *****, *****, *****, algorithms, animation, archive, art, ascii, book, books, character, code, culture, data, design, encoding, france, gallery, images, inerface, javascript, language, literature, mathematics, newyork, philosophy, pipe, punctuation, research, resource, shell, size, store, structure, text, theory, thumbnails, typography, uk, unicode, unix, utf8, writing, zoom
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Labanotation is a standartizied system for analysing and recording any human motion.
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The Intel Mac mini’s case is just like that on the PPC model and can be opened by prying upward with a sharp putty knife while working your way around the bottom of the case
April 07, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: alphabet, apple, body, diagram, gesture, hardware, howto, language, macmini, memory, motion, movement, music, notation, performance, tutorial, upgrade
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saving multiple clipboards for later access via contextual menu.
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A recursive acronym (or occasionally recursive initialism, and sometimes recursive backronym) is an abbreviation that refers to itself in the expression for which it stands. Due to the nature of the English language, which would infinitely recurse left-re
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i like the simple and effective interface and 3 column layout for blog excerpts, links and lists agregation
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Matching Whole Lines of Text
March 17, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, aggregator, application, banger, business, card, censor, censorship, clipboard, coding, communication, complexity, context, cover, crypto, culture, design, directory, disclosures, ed, education, game, geometry, graphic, illustartion, information, installation, language, links, mac, mathematics, media, news, osx, paper, record, reference, regexp, resource, resources, software, structure, tools, txt, wiki
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