At Poetry there’s a poem up about Darwin. Not too shabby, really. (via Pharyngula)
Month: April 2006
Un effort….
Mon ami Jean-Louis m’envoyé un courriel avec une “meme”, mais je ne le fait pas dans un courriel. Donc, je veux le faire ici! Mais, n’oublie pas, je n’ai pas pratiqué mon français depuis quatre ans. D’habitude, j’embarque pas dans ces affaires là, mais j’ai décidé de faire une exception. Ouai, ouai. Objet : me connais tu ?? Me connais tu vraiment? Par exemple connais-tu … 4 emplois que j’ai eu dans ma vie : 1: rédacteur technique 2: instructeur de la musique 3: technicien d’audio dans un studio d’émission (??? audio technician for a broadcasting studio???) 4: livraison de …
Dan Simmons’ Disturbing Anti-Islam story
This story is disturbing, but not, I suspect, in the way Dan Simmons intended.
George Bush Giving Peace a Chant
Amusing Mashup of George Bush rapping (sort of) John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’. (via The Chutry Experiment)
Worthwhile EFL Geekery
Two rather interesting posts on EFL Geek: Krashen on “English Villages” I Speak No English — The Kids in the Hall have no idea just how realistic this comedy skit is! I keep telling students not to memorize their speeches for classes, and while my Public Speaking class gets it, I keep meeting others who think outright memorization is useful. They often agree it isn’t so useful for becoming more fluent or skilled in using a language in real life, but, you know, it gets them better grades than impromptu speech with errors, so… well, that tells you something about …
Joi Ito’s Web: dotSUB
Here’s a cool experimental bit of software for subtitling video footage, at dotSUB. (via Joi Ito’s Web)
In Defense of Anger
Interesting post over at Pandagon on anger. I’m not big on slamdancing, but whatever. (via Making Light)
SFFS International Remix Redirect
Kinda neat, but not running on my Ubuntu installation — been having issues with Flash lately. I’ll try it on my Winbox later. You won’t win a prize for your online mashup, but they will show it at the Festival. via Yahoo Searchblog.
Single? Unemployed? Need Someone to Take Care of Mom?
What disturbs me about this article Digital Chosunilbo (English Edition) is the mater-of-factness by which the whole “buy-a-bride-in-Vietnam” thing is handled. This guy picks a couple of possibles from a room full of women, all there basically to sell themselves off as brides in the hope of living in, as one girl describes, a “concrete house”. He all but admits to the women he interviews that he needs someone to take care of his mom, and then, after an AIDS test and a quick Vietnamese ceremony, they’re married. And it’s only then that he realizes body language isn’t going to …
Seeing by José Saramago
Ursula K. Le Guin reviews José Saramago’s Seeing. Must check this guy out.