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We Are A Long Way From High Internet Literacy Rates
Lord of the Flies. “Thousands of people have no idea that responding to a listserve will broadcast your response to all recipients. Repeated ‘But I don’t even smoke!’ messages reveal an apparently deep-seated belief that spam is somehow targeted at individuals rather than carpet-bombed. Each recipient seemed to think that each unsub demand was directed…
Guthrie Allen Hilliard Barrett
Our boy was born a little after 9 p.m. yesterday, March 19, eleven days before the calculated due date. Guthrie Allen Hilliard Barrett (that’s two middle names) is eight pounds, three ounces and 21 inches. He has a lusty cry. His mama pushed the boy into the world without drugs. She’s tired. 🙂 More later.
Hiring horror stories
“We get hundreds of applications for every job we advertise. Too many to go through. But we have developed a strategy for dealing with them. Before scanning the CVs, we split the pile in two and chuck half away. After all, you don’t want unlucky people working for you.”—Adrian Monick, Hiring horror stories….
Southern Appalachian English
Michael Montgomery, editor of the Dictionary of Smoky Mountain English, sent along this announcement about his web site. There’s some good stuff there. … Dear All, This is to announce the launching of a revised version of my website on the English language spoken in Appalachia, which has been created through the gracious assistance of…
One Way? No Way!
This video on Streets Blog shows perfectly why I am against turning Sixth and Seventh Avenues in Park Slope, Brooklyn, into one-way streets. It’s my neighborhood: I live between Sixth and Seventh Avenues on Park Place, more or less a block below Flatbush Avenue (the streets intersect at an angle, so we’re closer to Flatbush…
Jeff Prucher’s Brave New Web Site
Jeff Prucher does a rare thing for a lexicographer: he lists words he didn’t include in his dictionary of science fiction terms, Brave New Words, and writes about why they didn’t make the cut. There are also sample entries of terms that were included.