well – i for one am glad that all you twelve linguists out there have found a respectable career after your brief flirtation with the name game.
it appears the salon redesign hullaballoo has made it into the new york times.
relatedly, jakob serves up a retrospective complete with an analysis of ‘victories’ and ‘defeats’ [ pssst – don’t forget to play the drinking game with friends [or alone if your into that sort of thing] while reading the retrospective]].
you know what’s worse that talking on a cell phone while driving? answering an e.mail. not that >i’ve< ever tried to type on a keyboard the size of a pack of cards while driving 80 miles of hour. a friend told me about it. honest. i give it 6 months before i see some youngin' talking on a cell phone and answering an e.mail.
think you’re keeping little sally or joey unsullied from violent episodes by only letting them watch the latest animated disney film? think again:
“All 74 films reviewed contained at least 1 act of violence (mean duration, 9.5 minutes per film; range, 6 seconds–24 minutes). Analysis of time trends showed a statistically significant increase in
the duration of violence in the films with time (P=.001). The study found a total of 125 injuries (including 62 fatal injuries) in 46 (62%) of the films. Characters portrayed as “bad” were much more likely to die
of an injury than other characters (odds ratio, 23.2; 95% confidence interval, 8.5-63.4). A majority of the violence (55%) was associated with good or neutral characters dueling with bad characters (ie, using
violence as a means of reaching resolution of conflict), and characters used a wide range of weapons in violent acts.”“Our content analysis suggests that a significant amount of violence exists in animated G-rated feature films. Physicians and parents should not overlook videocassettes as a source of exposure to violence for children.”
this is not to say that i’m exactly sure there’s any sort of direct causal link between exposure to violence and standing in a crowd with automatic weapons. at the same time i’m not saying that there isn’t some-sort of complicated relationship between exposure and action.
i do know that it makes me pretty uneasy to see ten-year-olds in “gladiator” [ which sucks – trust salon on this one]
for some reason reading about this lawsuit forced me to hum a few bars from salad days [ oh c’mon you remember irrirating your parents by looking sullen and playing minor threat >loudly<]. anyway - i think it was because both parties in the lawsuit claimed to be fighting for the mom, apple pie and the punk rock diy attitude...[which incidently, officially died after henry started showing up regularly on mtv]
“The original ideals of the band — that’s what Klaus, D.H. and myself were fighting for,” said East Bay Ray (born Ray Pepperell) after the decision.
Biafra (born Eric Boucher) claimed the suit was brought in part because he refused to license “Holiday in Cambodia” to Levi’s for an advertisement.
“They’re punishing me for sticking to the principles of the band and underground, independent culture,” he said.”
sing along with me…”do you remember when/yeah, so do i/you called those the, ah, salad days/i call them a lie”
i’m trying to think of a witty komodo comment, but i can’t – no matter, this komodo demands respect:
“ActiveState, a leading supplier of products and services supporting open source software, announced today that the company will use Mozilla software code as a cross platform development framework for Komodo, its Perl and Python integrated development environment (IDE).”
“ActiveState is building a Perl, Python and JavaScript integrated development environment (IDE) called Komodo. Komodo will use the Mozilla application framework and thus will have the benefit of being cross-platform and fully supportive of Windows and Linux amongst others. The IDE will offer features familiar to users of any modern IDE such as a rich language-aware editor, an interactive debugger and an interactive shell. The Komodo IDE source code will be freely available and will leverage Internet standards such as XML, CSS, RDF, FTP, WebDAV, and HTTP. This will make it easy for users to extend the IDE as well as learn how a complex Mozilla application is built.”
[via captain cursor]