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POPSPortmanteau Language -- Speech Idiosyncracies Entertaining article about speech foibles. I recall my own wife's talent for coming up with appropriate but made-up words, on the spot. As a graphic artist, I remember her remarking at work that a graphic clip needed to be "smallerized". When we were assembling furniture from an Ikea-like store, she wondered why the "stickoutums" at the corners weren't covered to prevent bumping injuries. --- Entertaining site, relating to word creation, from a recent Clipmark (sorry, don't have the Clipper's name at hand): Verbotomy .
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POPSGoogle 'Easter Egg'? Careful! I haven't tried this (yet). It comes from what appears to be a reputable site, though. (Java script to be pasted into address bar: removed from above display -- available at the link.)
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POPSZodiac linked to driving ability -- Toronto study This Aquarian has a near-perfect record over 34 years of legal driving (and a couple more years before those ones). Maybe it has to do with not relaxing my safety standards over the years, or good initial instruction. Interesting correlation, in any case!
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POPSCollective insanity in action - The lunatic fringe "We shall hold the cup of the vengeance of God to your lips!" shouted one sick unit in a newsclip on CNN. Let's see... dead soldier... war... country... government... legislation... human rights laws... homosexuality... personal viewpoint... okay. I think I've worked out the very logical thread of thought that led them to protest a dead soldier's funeral on the basis of homosexuals being permitted to exist!
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POPSA Day In The Life: The Space Station, 7 Feb 2006 This is an interesting look into the daily business of the Space Station. While setting up a satellite tracking application recently, I was struck by the casual reference to "satellites and spacecraft". Satellites I'm accustomed to. Non-fictional "spacecraft" I'm still getting used to.
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POPSAre you info literate? If we call it "reticulatory adeptness" can we make it a fourth 'R'? Reading, 'Riting, 'Rithmetic, and Reticulation.
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POPSChecking up on our poetic Clipmate While migrating my bookmarks from IE to Firefox and getting them sorted, just now, I came across this existential primal scream that was discharged into the cybersphere a few hours into the new year. The blog entry was "beautiful, sad, poetic", in the words of =egoldstein=, and the remark accompanying the writer's Clipmark of it was all the more poignant for its blunt 'phukitall' humour. How are things shaping up for the new year, Skwirlinator? Here's hoping things are looking sunnier. Incidentally, and not off-topic, I was introduced to Leonard Cohen's song, "Halleluia", today... Can't get it out of my head.
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POPSMarines deserter caught after 36 years on the run If he's charged and jailed by the military, and discharged, the assumption is that he's therefore still an enlisted soldier. Does that mean he gets 36 years' back-pay if the military tries him? Maybe that's what the relative who turned him in had in mind. ; { ]
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POPSBBS? Sysop? Pyroto What? TSOTL? 300-baud?
My gosh -- I got sidetracked and ended up spelunking through on-line archives of Usenet posts, finding a few of my own from back in the day. From there I followed my curiosity and looked up some BBS names from my virgin telecommunications days back in '86. That was 'way back in the last century, you know. I found sites listing "historical" BBS names and dial-up numbers, for the sake of reminiscence. It's been that long! Even considering computer years are shorter (longer?) than dog years, it's frightening to think of 20 years ago as a quaint historical period. Anyone graying like me, who participated early-on in the BBS form of interconnection? This site is similar to that high-school reunion job that has banner ads everywhere, but not nearly as commercial. It reunites old BBS chums with BBS-specific forums. I have to say that communicating with many of the same people from 1986 until the effective demise of BBSs around 1996 I made some good on-line and IRL friends.
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POPSOne of Google's finest thematic logos I don't see the logo in the Clip Preview as I make this entry. If it's not there, simply go to google.ca or google.com, home page. But be quick. It'll be gone Tuesday. ; { ]
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POPSWikipedia, on Martin Luther King Day My teenage son has been living with his mother in a province far from mine for a few years, and it's only recently that we've been able to keep in touch almost daily by Instant Messenger, e-mail, and other wonders of the 21st Century. I was proud and surprised, when I upgraded to the latest Microsoft Messenger to match what he had, that he was using an image of Dr. King as the iconic "avatar" representing him while on-line. MLK is among the top five people I admire most. I don't remember consciously imparting this to young Mookie, so his choice was a pleasant surprise. : { ) I hope the employers of many of you folks down there in Vespuccia give you the day off for observance of an important man who charted a non-violent and exemplary course toward long-overdue and neglected social reform. : { ) (Alas, here in Canuckia we observe the day from our desks, workshops, stores, and other places of employment. But we're working on it.)
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POPS"Oh, man -- @#$% Christmas" Funny diatribe, which I didn't clip in full because of the level of vernacular. Still more on some supposed "Attack On Christmas" by the persecuted Right.
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POPS"Evolution is dead!!!" read the link to this article. The exclamation marks convinced me it was true "Wow!" I said, out-loud, reading the second of the excerpted reviews in this clip. It sure felt like a cheer for my team. But... As always, I see glimmers of sense on both sides of this issue, despite my tendency to "pick a team". And as always, it astounds me that people continue to "pick teams", and choose one or another extreme (as if that's required of effective, assertive logic), and only then examine things, selectively, to support their foredrawn conclusions. Way to be wrong. (Smug's fun, but lonely.) About "Intellligent Design": I find it difficult to believe that undirected coincidence can result in a complexly organized system such as that of a living organism, with its built-in capacity to withstand (some) unforeseen changes in conditions (much as a well-crafted computer program anticipates the end-user's experience, providing alternatives, error traps, and advisories). But to say that that complexity is therefore proof of any particular alternative, namely
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POPSHmmm... Recursive Clipmarks! I just had to do it -- a Clipmark clip of a Clipmark clip! This fellow, "nvizzini" has a blog that's worth reading, and keeping up on. I'm starting to enjoy this Clipmark thing! As a journalist and an enthusiast of both thinking and writing, I welcome this as another fascinating vehicle for widely broadcast, informal self-publication. Several years of specific "news" training (and possible indoctrination) should not be a prerequisite of publication. There's room for everybody. :) ______________ P.S.: Thanks for the kind nod, N.
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