PHILAFICATION

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Can’t Get It Out Of There

Just lost 2 minutes of my life that I will never ever get back.
And yes, someone actually made the effort to register raraahahahromaromamagagaoohlala.com, coded a web page in order to show of the infinite loop of those more than less empty syllables. What’s more is that I made the time to actually post this on here, [...]

Happy Chrismahanukwanzakah

Originally Chrismahanukwanzakah is a fictional holiday made up Virgin Mobile for their Holiday Season advertising campaign as a satirization of the political correctness evolving around seasonal greetings in the US. The word itself and the idea behind it combine Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa as one celebration.
Vienna – This should give you a sweet impression of the local Festiveness Feel. I [...]

“It Autocompletes Me”

Have a look at this little page that collects the curious cases of Google auto-complete-approaches. A nice addition to my RSS subscriptions.
Off you go,… “One day I will rule candyland with an iron fist”

Question Mark Written All Over You

No more. You know how they say there is no stupid question? Well strictly speaking, there are stupid questions that can make a generally stupid person look even more ridiculous. My elite audience will know what I mean. Anyway,so here’s a stupid question: What’s the exact opposite of a stupid question?
Right, a smart question. A [...]

Twitter Is Not Invincible

(+ Tutorial for Free Twitter Mac Client)
Shocking News: Twitter Is Not Invincible.
Twitter is one of these Web 2.0 services that has to struggle with a non-stop growing community and obviously has troubles keeping up the servers running the way they should. Tisk. Tisk.
It happened a lot lately. Twitter is down. That’s what she said. [...]

Kiwi Accent Explained For Once

In the last couple of days I did some research on Australian and – as a consequence – New Zealand Kiwi accents and I came across with this video that I felt obliged to share with you guys. It’s fun to see the New Zealand accent explained after dark years of Unwissen (not-knowing).
By the way. [...]

No Wonder At All

No wonder our perception of beauty is distorted – Watch a film by Dove on how a Girl’s look is modified to be perfect enough to be qualified as “pin-up”. Dove has been doing pioneer work by hiring every-day women for their advertising.
See more short films dealing with controversial topics like manipulation of kids and [...]

Linguist Avant-Garde Literally Patrols Online

Ever since the Internet got accessible easily, an Avant Garde descended from Linguistic Heaven to educate us, the stupid common people, literally point at our linguistically weak Achilles’ heel. Ouch, doesn’t the usage of “literally” sound wrong to you? Well, if you are a representative of today’s online patrol on misusage of the English language, [...]