Links of Possible Relevance, Part 7

I made a silly video of a polar bear “dancing” to a Meshuggah song.

Ed links to an interesting article about the HTML5 canvas tag and a possible use/misuse to track client-side activity. We something of an ongoing discussion on how to resolve it (somewhat) with user-defined javascripting.

Germany government might revert to typewriters for security purposes, just like Russia did last year.

The 35 Writers Who Run the Literary Internet – AKA: A bunch of people who live in NYC that you’ve never heard of (except maybe Gaiman).

Why Don’t People Smile in Old Photographs? – An old post, but still informative, including the comments.

Another dilemma for Facebook slacktivists, especially the ones who slacktivate constantly about global poverty.

A Japanese (I think) band plays Converge’s “Concubine” at a wedding.

This is why the government should never control the internet: “In short, the Internet is the greatest deregulatory success story of all time — a simple fact that vexes those seeking new and unnecessary rules.”

Does Jesus use hyperbole to make a point? – Short answer is, “yes.”

2 Comments

  • Ed Hurst says:

    Hyperbole was a standard feature of Hebrew communications; readers and listeners would expect a certain amount of it. It was considered poor communication skills not to use some.

    • Jay says:

      Do you think hyperbole we common in conversation or was it a characteristic of the preacher “office”? Seems strange to me that it would pop up in everyday conversation, but if you think about it, conversational American English has a bit of hyperbole, too.

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