Want to know how the electronic Newspeak of the railway’s robotic masters sounds? I was at the station today waiting for my usual train. The previous train, which usually leaves 20 minutes earlier, was delayed. This is the announcement that was broadcast over the tannoy system: “This is the London Charing Cross service calling at Frant, Tunbridge Wells, High Brooms, Tonbridge, Sevenoaks, London Bridge, London Waterloo East and London Charing Cross. Note: the service will not be calling at Sevenoaks, London Bridge, London Waterloo East and London Charing Cross.” That’s railway newspeak for “We apologise - the train previously scheduled to London will terminate at Tonbridge. If you wish to travel to London, please wait for the next train on platform one or take this train and change at Tonbridge.” Funny how they morphed that message.
I’ve got LyX and a whole bunch of other TeX stuff installed on my Mac. I don’t think I’ve got teTeX which is necessary for LyX to work. Without it, I can edit documents, but can’t actually render them. Looks like FinkCommander didn’t work yesterday. Guess I’ll have to do it manually. TeX is so confusing. Someone ought to just make a LyX.app package that you can install and launch, with all the relevant dependencies built in.
14-year-old drunk driving convict emerges in fit of violence. I’m going to get feminist hate mail for this but “who’s a feisty girl!”
More fundy silliness. As PZ points out, it’s most definitely Picasso rather than Jesus. Or if you turn it on it’s side, it’s a three eyed fish. This is the answer: resurrealisation!
WorldBlogCenter is a shitty idea. But can you blame them - people willingly threw thousands after thousands at that shitty MillionDollarHomepage, so why wouldn’t others do the same thing. Pixels aren’t “real estate” that can be bought and sold like that. Space on a webpage has no value. Reccomendations and ideas are what matter.
It’s not “How to Win Friends and Influence People”, it’s How to Win Blog Friends Blog to Blog Blog Blog Influence Blog People Blog. Got it?
Peter has a post on John Taylor Gatto. I pretty much agree, having read “Dumbing Us Down” a year or so back. Gatto talks utter nonsense when he’s using the words God, religion, Christianity and secularism. Then again, the homeschooling market is filled with fundies who don’t want their kids to learn about “evilution”, so Gatto is just playing to the target market here. Secularise Gatto’s message, and you’ve got some decent thoughts on school and education (and how the two rarely meet).
Dave points to an onine shoe shop. That’s such a good idea. I hate shoe shopping more than almost any other type of shopping.
Les is pointing to a news article which starts off: “The federal government has spent $2.2 million in the past five years on studies of distant healing”. That’s a good use of taxpayers money, espeially when they could have spent it on Katrina relief or paying for veterans hospitals for all the suckers being brought back from Iraq without limbs. No, you wouldn’t want that, when you could spend it on pseudoscience like “distance healing”.
Good to see that the French government have employed kinky anal fisters to deal with protestors. “;->”
GDC looks like a scary event, and that’s coming from me - I can barely get my shirt on the right way around every day.
Tagbay is eBay plus tagging. (Via Steven Cohen)
directionlessgov.com is a pretty decent parody of DirectGov, our government’s super-shitty portal. Via Richard Johnson’s comment at TheyWorkForYou.
