linksgiving!

[jazzfish]

Thanksgivvukah: "And since many of the hybrid Hanukkah holidays ... are scheduled for tens of thousands of years from now, Cohen is skeptical they will ever come to pass. 'Maybe the Messiah will have come by then,' he pointed out."

Your Ability to Can Even: A Defense of Internet Linguistics: "Sometimes 'AODEHwhddhwdwebw' is far more eloquent than saying 'I'm so overtaken with emotion, I can barely type so I smashed the keyboard with my forehead.'"

(Speaking of which, if you are not reading The Toast you should be. Dreamwidth feed at the_toast_feed.)

The Logic of Stupid Poor People: "[O]ne person's illogical belief is another person's survival skill. And nothing is more logical than trying to survive."

Surviving the post-employment economy: "We live in the tunnel at the end of the light... the post-employment economy, where corporations have decided not to pay people."

So these two planes collided in midair, but they were full of skydivers so everyone is okay.

Captain Justice Responds to Government's Motion to Ban the Word "Government": "Along these same lines, even the term 'defense' does not sound very likeable.... [T]he opposition to the Plaintiff hereby names itself 'the Resistance.'"

Mavis Batey, last of the Enigma codebreakers, dies at 92: "'This is going to be an interesting job, Mata Hari, seducing Prussian officers. But I don't think either my legs or my German were good enough because they sent me to the Government Code & Cipher School.'"

The Night Watch: (warning: pdf) "'Yeah, that sounds bad. Have you checked the log files for errors?' I said, 'Indeed, I would do that if I hadn't broken every component that a logging system needs to log data. I have a network file system, and I have broken the network, and I have broken the file system, and my machines crash when I make eye contact with them. I HAVE NO TOOLS BECAUSE I'VE DESTROYED MY TOOLS WITH MY TOOLS.'"

Remembering William Weaver, translator for Umberto Eco and Italo Calvino, among others. Contains a link to Weaver's interview in The Paris Review ten years ago, which is also a fine read.

Start-Up Reinvents the Bicycle Wheel: "While the new wheel is still round..."

Comments

[rbandrews]

I was talking about that story the other day with my pilot friend: I wouldn't go so far as to say everyone was okay. See, the main reason that people fly skydivers is to build up flight hours for a future airline career. And flying in formation, when you can't see the other plane, is not something the FAA looks kindly on. So these two pilots, their careers are basically over. They'll almost certainly lose their licenses.

[jazzfish]

Arguably, in the larger sense everyone is still okay: nobody died, and two people who were breaking regs aren't flying anymore so not endangering other planes. Still. Suck.

[rbandrews]

That's a fair point. :)

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

Ooo many good looking links! And happy birthday!

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

Did you see the article about
Because thing?

I need to get back to posting link sausages on LJ,,,

[blaisepascal]

I can't tell if you are being deliberately (or accidentally) elliptical, or are referring to the article in The Atlantic calling "because" a new English preposition.

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

Atlantic!
It was a wonderful thread. Might copy it in later when not on ipad

[selki.livejournal.com]

My niece was explaining memes and Internet speak to my sister (her mom) yesterday. I gave the Because example. :-)

[jazzfish]

I did! It was rather cool.

And yeah, I'm much more likely to click links from LJ than from FB.

[queenoftheskies.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday!

[jazzfish]

Thanks! :)

[selki.livejournal.com]

Internet language O Snap! Critics of Internet language owe a letter of apology to George Orwell, who (along with Ayn Rand, Ronald Reagan, and Jesus Christ) belongs to an exclusive club of people who are conveniently reanimated whenever someone wants to win an argument without actually being clever.

Also, cool article about Mavis Batey!

[jazzfish]

Did I mention how much I love The Toast? Most of the articles are that well-written.