Labov says ‘New York poet Frederick Cozzens rhymed shore and pshaw in 1856′ Has anybody done historical linguistics using poetry? That’s so much data. One could study language change over thousands of years. I was just fascinated that rhyme could record phonetics. – indi

This is the reading for my Cognitive Science class. I’m going to post my notes here and print them in the morning. S. Smith, Kanwisher, Uttal 1. What does the acronym fMRI refer to? Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging 2. What does fMRI measure? Increased blood flow to activated areas of the brain. Holy Shit, it’s [...]

Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez said in Baghdad on Tuesday the number of foreign resistance troops was “probably a couple of hundred”… Sanchez also confirmed the detention of 20 men thought to have ties with Usama bin Ladin’s al-Qaida organisation. Al Jazeera The rest of the Article is the opinion of one prof at the University [...]

Milagros Perez, center, whose husband Joel was killed in a helicopter attack in Iraq on Nov. 2, at his funeral in Newark on Monday. (article)

Nanofibers are tiny wires. They conduct electricity really well. Neurons are tiny cells. They conduct electricity really well. “… nanotubes may already have been around for more than a century. A US patent granted in 1889 to two British men reveals how to make them using marsh gas better known these days as methane. The [...]

I think Cuba and Libya don’t really need to be here. The source of this map is the BBC, who cites George W. Bush and US Undersecretary John Bolton. Bolton is a little crazy, and he added Libya and Cuba, and Syria.. but Syria should be on the list. So should Saudi Arabia, but we [...]

Which makes you happier, making music or movies? Making music makes me happier, but the music business doesn’t make me happy. It’s shady. It’s a bunch of talented people surrounded by untalented people looking to take advantage of them. That’s what the music industry is. And the film industry isn’t just as bad? They’re both [...]

This company 1and1.com is offering 500 mb of web space for 3 years for free. Seems like a strange business model. I signed up and so did Ron. He bought the domain name manilaice.com for 6$ too. I don’t know if these people will bail or get sketchy, but 500 mbs of space is cool. [...]

Remarks by the President at the 20th Anniversary of the National Endowment for Democracy United States Chamber of Commerce Washington, D.C. Video and Text I agree that democracy is good and Middle East governments are corrupt, undemocratic, and hostile to human rights. I think that promoting Democracy in Iraq will help reform that entire FUBAR [...]

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