Archive for category: Web & infrastructure

Teaching foreign languages via YouTubé    (2019.05.13)

Dōgen and Ruben Adery are two distinctive but effective practitioners

Musclegays sure love their tempeh and broccoli    (2019.02.04)

Musclegays (as on Instagram) poison the well with their narcissism and just are not a joy to look at

“same pic of” (sic)    (2018.11.26)

These kids are brilliant, posting the same picture every single day

Old-timers    (2018.09.05)

Web “pioneers,” all of whom are now above age 45, have a duty to be nice to each other, and not Anil Dash–level snide

Microsoft fixes something you can’t even explain to Windoids in the first place    (2018.05.09)

You can’t even explain to a Windows user what a text file is, let alone what line endings are. 33 years later, Microsoft fixed Notepad to display line endings correctly

Internet of Shit et al.    (2018.05.07)

Internet of Shit has a Web site, but see also Screenshots of Despair, Glitchr, et al.

“Making Friends”    (2018.03.10)

Old posting from Happy Magic Fun Time that needs not to be lost to the mists

Mike Monteiro, leftist bully    (2017.07.27)

Mike Monteiro is still a bully even if you crusade against guns and the racism of your own people and deny the harm Muslims have caused to a group whose help nobody ever asked you for in the first place

Paralanguage of Instagram    (2016.06.28)

Instagram hovers on top of human language. It’s a global medium without a hint of of cultural appropriation or imperialism