So what is a Man Thing, our special reported [ally] sheds light on the issue:

"I reckon it's a thing men have and women don't otherwise it would just be a thing."

Bring 3D Back To Our Cinemas!

Sob T_T So... beautiful...
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Then for the interest of English friends (Engelska vanner)
http://www.thelondongroup.com/exhibitions/open_exhibition_2007.html

You know I have a fixation with all things nuclear, right? Nuclear power, nuclear war, nuclear winter, nuclear waste... it all interests me. Because it's invisible and so dangerous. It's an ugly malevolent beast, and I find it beautiful. I love to read about it all. Now I've been reading Arthur Koestler's "Ghost in the machine" for a very long time, and if you know the book, it prattles on all over all possible subjects. And now, near the end, it has reached the nuclear bomb. The author paints horror images of nuclear war, saying it is only a matter of time. And I tell you, if I had the control over this nuclear power, I'd detonate it, right now. Just to make it happen. Just so it wouldn't be a war-effort that brought about the destruction of the old world. I say old world, because I'm fairly certain a new world will emerge from it all.

I also find myself agreeing more and more with F. T. Marinetti (which makes me question my sanity).
http://www.unknown.nu/futurism/manifesto.html
The fact is that the futurists had a point (with the downside that they all happened to be fascists :/)

In my degree show I had a note that read "I'm in the unfortunate position of being a futurist stuck in the future" - and now I mean it.

Today's YouTube find (you betcha it's Barenaked Ladies!)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=U3hoZ9hDY_g

Now you know that I mostly hate all that yaoi-crap, but... Did you spot the hottest thing ever? (I actually paused the vid, screen dumped and saved on my network hard-drive :9)

*addment*
I love the fact that the guys in BNL aren't typically attractive men - it makes me feel happy that I love them so much even though they are very normal-looking. It's so easy to love Nirvana for example, when the lead singer is/was t3h sex.
*ish happy with this observation*

Today's ominous scene by [Viking] -quote:

"Hello little girl! Are your parents home?"

"They're in the attic. Sleeping."

"Oh, perhaps I should come by later?"

"No, they'll still be sleeping in the attic."

Today's philosophical quote by [Viking]:
"Is anyone ever prepared to have their boggle blasted?"

Today I walked down the corridor in uni and underneath the stairs that lead to the office of a teacher of mine I stopped and knew that he was in (he's supposed to be on holiday). Then later I walked past again and he came out of his office. And I knew because I recognised his smell in the corridor. >_> That is scary, because I try very hard to not obsess over him. <_<

Art project underway that kind of needs participation from all you people! :D It involves you receiving a free piece of typographical art. :3 I'll elaborate at the end of next week or something like that.

Addment:
Harporn!
http://www.harpomarx.net/fav20.html
http://www.harpomarx.net/fav21.html

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*has... no... time...*

Sorry, I keep spammering you all with this stuff :P But then again it's your own bloody choice to watch my house.

I'm in a different computer room today and wheeemz (sorry ally) YouTube works so I'm watching... stuff. o.O

Here's stuff:
http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=zkHM8xG6i8o

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52 forum replies.
Am I going to click them all now?
No. :)

For the attention of American friends (and also for the information of friends all over):
Please save Net Radio: http://www.savenetradio.org/
Contact your Congress representatives to ask them to co-sponsor the internet equality act (S. 1353 in the senate and H.R. 2060 in the house)

Today we had a lecture by David Crystal ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Crystal ) in uni, about Language and Internet. It was really interesting. And I'm feeling benevolent and organised, so I typed my notes and here you go too. :) Also, someone filmed it (I sawed them!) so if/when I find where they put that (they'll put it somewhere online), I'll link. But now.

Notes from the lecture given by David Crystal:     19th June 2007

(Intro)
-When ever new technology emerges, there is opposition.

-The CMC (computer mediated communication) has developed for about a decade, really. Yet we are already completely infused with it.

(Did internet have an impact on language?)
-Not really: The web added about 500 new words to English language (over a million words in the entire language in total). Text-type abbreviations aren’t that common. No changes in grammar. Web uses punctuation to express emotion instead of syntax or grammar. Old medieval manuscripts didn’t have punctuation or capital letters, so it’s not new to leave it out. Two new-ish plurals: old form ‘en’ (oxen, children) used for a lot of new web-type plurals and ‘z’ instead of ‘s’ for “warez” (not the same as “wares”) and “gamez” etc… Other than that, no massive effect on language and no effect on formal language (people agree that you wouldn’t use text-type where formal language is needed, and people have mutual tolerance for text-type in informal setting)

-Yes, in a way: Internet can save endangered languages. (Language can survive as long as teenagers are interested in it. Teenagers like internet.)

(Internet is constantly called "revolutionary)
-CMC is ‘revolutionary’ because it is a whole new type of communication, which is not talking and not writing.

Not like speech:
-Uses metaphors of speech (chat)
-Speech uses simultaneous feedback, this isn’t there in CMC, even with IM there is a lag.
-Conversation is two-ways. Email is one-way conversation – what an oxymoron!
-In a chatroom you can pay attention to several conversations at once, easily. No way to do that IRL.

Not like written language:
-Something written on a paper never changes. Online text does all the time (updates, scrolling text, pop-ups…)
-Hyperlink! WWW could not exist without it, without it there is no ‘web’! Books have cross-reference or footnotes, but they don’t need them. Internet needs hyperlink. And you can link anything, blogs, www, emails…
-Copy-paste. What an absurd idea IRL (someone sends you a letter, you cut out part of it, paste it on a new sheet of paper, write your letter on the same paper and send it back…?)

(General language/internet observation)
-English is no more the dominant language of the internet: 2003 less than 50% of website hosts were in English.

(Closing)
-Future of the web-language: introducing dialect and accent through audio maybe?

-How interesting for language blogs are: it is pure text from the author, no editors, nobody interferes with it! It’s the most naked form of language!

(Answers to questions)
-People don’t know how to use emoticons, there is no emoticon-grammar yet. :) is a smile, but a smile can mean a thousand things! But awesome idea to suggest facial expressions online.

Because of [Viking]'s diary, I've been reunited with PostSecret. And I've found a few familiar ones...

Fish's secret
http://bp3.blogger.com/_a7jkcMVp5Vg/Rl1hwYSft_I/AAAAAAAAA7U/wOelVJFymys/s1600-h/jealous.jpg

Mine
http://bp1.blogger.com/_a7jkcMVp5Vg/Rl1hQ4SftyI/AAAAAAAAA5s/ahQIvLMYeg0/s1600-h/socialist.jpg

http://postsecret.blogspot.com/