January 2009
32 posts
“American singer-songwriter who brought Bob Dylan’s embodiment of the hipster...”
– Definition of Beck in the Encyclopedia Britannica (via becktionary)
pretty accurate definition-
“I am never concerned about finding myself in the minority.”
– Roger Ebert, disclosing the preferences, tics, and attitude he carries into every screening. Great stuff. (via 43folders)
“…when Monty Python launched their channel in November, not only did their...”
– “YouTube Blog. It’s stunning to me how much opportunity there is in giving stuff away. But, it’s approximately twice as stunning how few people really understand how powerful (and indisputable) that simple fact of modern life is. Evolution is going to become unimaginably painful for any...
2009 Slang
via Trendcentral:
Povo (po-vo) adj. Spawned from the increasing popularity of new HBO series Summer Heights High, the Aussie slang for poor has infiltrated the vocabulary of recessionistas everywhere “Caroline, I can’t go out to dinner tonight: My pay cut has left me totally povo.”
Geequals n. Two people who are equal in depth of arcane knowledge “I knew I had met...
Whitehouse.gov's new robots.txt file
via Kottke:
Here’s a small and nerdy measure of the huge change in the executive branch of the US government yesterday. The robots.txt file on a website tells search engines what to include and not include in their indexes. Here’s the robots.txt file from whitehouse.gov from Monday:
User-agent: * Disallow: /cgi-bin Disallow: /search Disallow: /query.html Disallow: /omb/search...
