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- Linguistics
- Politics
- Technology
- Social Networking Sites in the Crosshairs?
- Startup hopes 'Tubes' metaphor has legs
- Virual land owner challenges press freedom in Second Life
- Television
- Diamond Age to be SciFi miniseries
- Stargate SG-1 Movies Announced (slightly spoilery at the bottom)
- Linguistics
- Science
- Society
- Med School Owes Its Existence To Many Bodies of Knowledge If you read no other link (or if you usually skip them), READ THIS ONE! Fascinating article that includes a woman attempting to sell a mummy on eBay, the early foundations of anatomy in the U.S., and graverobbing.
- Mother loses bid to ban Harry Potter books
- Musical copyright terms 'to stay' Copyright on musical recordings in the UK is 20 years, so some early rock n' roll will soon be public.
- Wiccan war widow dedicates plaque Follow up to an article I previously linked.
- Technology
- Education
- Cursive writing rapidly becomes passe
I found the this interesting, as both a representative for our county is quoted, and my son has taken it upon himself to learn cursive (he's in first grade, and I have no idea what sparked him to do this, but reading this article I am glad that he has). - Gaming
- Burger King orders up Xbox games
So while McD's is focusing on healthy food choices and excercise for kids, BK has gone with video games that teach kids how to stalk. wtf? - Just for Fun
- Top Ten Geek Wallets
Each of these are interesting, though I don't think I would want to actually carry any of them. - Linguistics
- FBI agents still lacking Arabic skills
Only 33 with limited proficiency, that is all they have. (Also they need Urdu and Farsi speakers.) - Science
- BECs confound at higher temperatures
This is mainly for me, I'm not sure anyone else would be interested (though it's very cool!). - Physicits observe subatomic quick-change artist
Ditto my comment above. - Scientists teleport two different objects
Now this you should look at. Teleporting a macroscopic atomic object over half a meter, while converting between light and matter! Awesome!
A Few Links
Aug. 1st, 2006 02:46 pm- Linguistics
- Instant msg-ing messes with grammar? As if! lol!
An article about how the shorthand of instant messaging is not corrupting teenagers' syntactical abilities.
- Instant msg-ing messes with grammar? As if! lol!
- Media
- For Toddlers, a World Laden with Advertising
An appropriate article, as I have been noticing that as my kiddos have started to move from watching commercial free programming like Noggin, to more traditional children's progamming like Nick, they have much stronger cases of the "I want"s.
- For Toddlers, a World Laden with Advertising
From the mouths of robot dogs
Jun. 23rd, 2006 03:42 pmI know that there is at least one person on my list who will be interested in this article: Teaching robot dogs lingiustic tricks.
World Language Maps
May. 26th, 2006 07:19 amFor those who enjoy all things linguistic, this is the World Language Phyla/Family Mapping site from Global Mapping International.
