Posted on February 29th, 2012 by Adrian
Alfred Korzybski was a Polish-American philosopher and scientist from whose ideas and theories about language, inspired the creation of E-Prime, by D. David Bourland, Jr.. E-Prime simplifies English by removing all forms of the verb ‘to be’ (is, was, were, etc). This has the effect of clarifying a message such to convey experience and not judgement. Then it becomes harder for the writer or reader to confuse opinion with fact.
Posted on February 13th, 2012 by Adrian
When you think of languages, they tend to fall into various categories. One class that I often wonder about is Gibberish. The language of the Sim’s, or Simlish, is a Gibberish (nonsense language) created by The Sims development team at EA Games for the Sims series of games.
It’s meant to sound like a real language while not actually being one. Here’s an example of some Simlish:
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Posted on February 10th, 2012 by Adrian
Recently I’ve moved to a new host It took a while and I’m still working through some bumps but I hope it will prove beneficial. Read more on “Moving from GoDaddy to GreenHostIt” »
Posted on January 18th, 2012 by Adrian
Not really but, but Postings on blogs such as this could be censored by the government in the near future. Under PIPA (Protect Intellectual Property Act) and SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act), two bills being seriously considered in the United States, Blogs and websites like mine which contain links to or postings about copyrighted material (even if posted by a user of the copyrighted material site) can be indefinitely blocked without trial or notice.
On top of that the laws wouldn’t even be able to do what they were written to do; Stop online piracy. When will congress realize that it’s not good policy to go to war with their own citizens. These laws put way too much power into the hands of a few well-funded organizations who are lobbying like crazy to get this done.
It’s time to let your elected representatives know that censorship is not the path to freedom. What is this China?
See the real video, which is pretty cool, after this link.
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Posted on December 28th, 2011 by Adrian
If you want to add video to your site, the easy way is to upload it to YouTube or a similar service. CMS systems like WordPress have JavaScript solutions to make it all compatible. But what if you don’t want to use YouTube? If you’re making your own CMS or web application, you can try HTML5 Video.
The above video was thrown-together for this post, so please forgive the shabby graphics.
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Posted on December 20th, 2011 by Adrian
The text on this site has a specific font. It’s called Andika, and I found it on Google Web Fonts. You don’t know what that is? Most web browsers only understand a handful of fonts like Times or Arial. In the past, if you wanted cool fonts, you had to use an image.
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Posted on December 13th, 2011 by Adrian
Health is important to everyone. I take vitamins and I watch what I eat, but really I’m just guessing. There is so much “information” out there about what’s good for you and what you should do to live longer, stay healthy and maintain youthfulness. This visual thinking video has the most simple solution.
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Posted on October 19th, 2011 by Adrian
Yes. Apparently there is no pink. I knew it!!!
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