Poynter Institute, Language Log, Grammar (random thoughts)
“Shoes”. For info and more vids, see: Shoes (Kelly song).
Top 10 most popular pages of my “Human Animals and Their Songs” project. The top one is viewed 746 times in last 30 days. The 10th is viewed 203 times
- 1. Iko Iko
- 2. Hey Sexy Lady
- 3. 木蘭辭 (Mulan Ballad)
- 4. 佳人歌 (The Beauty Song)
- 5. My Dick (Song)
- 6. Daisy Bell
- 7. Kiss (Prince's song)
- 8. Hip-Hop Rap and the Quagmire of (American) Blacks
- 9. Nights in White Satin
- 10. P.I.M.P. (rap song) by 50 Cent
3 old videos.
- Yaron Minsky, Janestreet Talk On Ocaml and Functional Language
- Neal Stephenson at Google Talk
- Sergey Brin Lecture
Apple iPad, Censorship (commentary)
World Literature Classics; Thoughts Extempore (comment)
The torture porn scifi, 《The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect》, is now available as a printed book. amazon.
Discovered that the Unabomber has recently published a collection of his writings. 《Technological Slavery: The Collected Writings of Theodore J. Kaczynski, a.k.a. “The Unabomber”》 (2010), by Theodore Kaczynski. amazon.
For his 1995 Manifesto, see: Unabomber Manifesto (Industrial Society and its Future).
Fasting, Religion, Mind Control (comment)
Shoot'em Up Video Games (some screenshot and video)
Update: Facebook's Ethics.
Majorish update: The Writing Style on XahLee.org.
Got a email today from a author asking permission to quote a commentary i made on a poem.
The poem is: 木蘭辭 (Mulan Ballad). (yes, Disney made a animation out of it) He is writing a book about the poem. (in Spanish for Spanish communities) The requested quote is:
Basically, the entire Mulan fable stems from this ballad. Note the ridiculousness of it. How can a girl, in military for 12 years, and fellow soldiers do not realize that she is a female? If so, she must be very unusual and manly. In modern times, she'd be a butcher dyke, or medically and psychologically certified transsexual.
Am delighted.
Note that this article is also cited in a book: 《Linguaggio e genere: grammatica e usi》 (2006), By Silvia Luraghi, Anna Olita. (ISBN 8843039261, 9788843039265) ❐. The title in English is: “Language and gender: grammar and usage”.
Added Unification Church (Moonies) and David Icke to the page Alfred Lawson; the University of Lawsonomy. (cults)