Remember when the movie 2010: Odyssey Two came out? There was a simple, easy way to say it: We all called it “Twenty-Ten”. And for a few decades, folks like Terence McKenna have been warning about what might happen in the year 2012, and we all thought of it as “twenty-twelve”. These things are short, [...]
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Google+ Doesn’t Want “Real” Names. They Want WASPonyms.
Friday, August 19th, 2011 – 7:52 pm
Google+ Doesn’t Want “Real” Names. They Want WASPonyms. Three pieces of news lately about Google+ make it clear that when Google claims they want you to use your “real” name, it’s a load of hooey. First off, a legally mononymous Australian journalist named Stilgherrian was told he couldn’t use that name — his actual, legal name — [...]
A “Blog” Is a Whole Bunch of Posts
Tuesday, December 29th, 2009 – 2:13 pm
This is rapidly becoming one of my pet peeves, right up there with misuse of the word “literally”: This thing I’m writing right now? This single entry in my blog? This isn’t “a blog”. It’s “an entry” or “a post”. Sort of like that piece of paper in a book is a page, not a [...]