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[jazzfish]

Tired and headachey this morning (I have got to swap out that light bulb), so most all you get from me today is other people's stuff.

I did get the new Ted Chiang book in the mail yesterday, and devoured it in what I think is record time (for me): roughly an hour from "acquired new book" to "finished new book," and that's including time spent driving to the metro. It's good; I want to let it gel for a week and then reread it so I can get a better idea of what I want to say about it.

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Translating the Verizon-Google Legislative Framework Proposal: "Users would have a wide variety of choices. For example, a user could choose to use the monopoly services we offer, or instead could choose to do things that don't require the Internet." --jeez, picking a pull quote for this was hard. Just read the whole thing. (See also Daring Fireball's Translation From Apple’s Unique Dialect of PR-Speak to English of the 'Letter From Apple Regarding iPhone 4')

20 Neil Gaiman facts: "5. Neil Gaiman once did the New York Times crossword puzzle in pen. In fifteen minutes. He won two Hugo awards for it."

Early Gangbanger Fiction: "Eager to achieve membership in one of the two gangs of armed thugs who between them terrorize the peaceful citizens of a great city, he challenges three of its respected members to fights to the death."

Some random YouTubery:

• Thea Gilmore's cover of "Bad Moon Rising"
  
• Winterbloom's cover of "Rexroth's Daughter"
  
• Bruce Campbell's cover of "Hungry Like the Wolf"

Comments

[jadelennox]

Congress should also take up origami.


That is fscking *brilliant*.

[(Anonymous)]

Eh -- it wasn't bad at points, but the Apple translation was a pretty accurate translation of what Apple was saying. Wheras the google/verizon translation was just a case study of taking whatever they said in the worst light -- which in some cases, was warranted; in others not so much.