Archive for the ‘Language’ Category

I’m Amused

It seems that Google is using (and owns) 1e100.net

They’ve owned it since 2009, so this isn’t news really.

(It’s really spelled “googol”).

advertising slogans

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I would have hoped the sheets were blank.

Is Your Question Loaded?

The four rules of question safety:

  1. ALL questions are ALWAYS loaded
  2. Never let your question cover anything you are not willing to learn about
  3. Keep your finger off the “Enter” key until your question is on topic
  4. Always be sure of your subject and surrounding disciplines

With a tip o’ the hat to Jeff Cooper and, er, “jdog” (yes, I tracked that through and know who that is).

Lost Positive

lighted!

This one was brought to my attention via a strange sequence involving a misspelling of a proprietary feature name in Nikon DSLRs.

Lost Positives

“ane”