-
He notes that while one version is awkward and the other smooth, both are linguistically equidistant from the original Japanese. The awkward version just has an “illusion of literalness” simply because it isn’t as good.
links for August 23rd
August 23rd, 2010 · No Comments
→ No CommentsCategories: links
Tags:
links for August 20th
August 20th, 2010 · No Comments
-
"It’s pretty much the way street teams operate but they’re aimed at 14 year old boys. The lack of reciprocity here also isn’t a problem if you’re a Social Media Rock Star and all your real life friends are Social Media Rock Stars too because they’ll also be getting the free stuff."
→ No CommentsCategories: links
Tags:
links for August 12th
August 12th, 2010 · No Comments
-
It is certainly true that kindness is rarely invoked in contemporary public rhetoric. The voguish word for our straitened times is not kindness but “fairness”. When everyone must bear their “fair share” of economic pain, kindness is likely to be regarded as a luxury we can ill afford, perhaps even as a form of sanctimony or concealed self-interest.
-
"Richard Lovelace [...] reversed the [Aesop's] tale to castigate the sanctimonious ant who would not even allow himself an hour “to lose with pleasure, what thou got’st with pain”."
→ No CommentsCategories: links
Tags:
links for August 4th
August 4th, 2010 · No Comments
-
The problem with hill-climbing is it can only see local maxima, it doesn't have any visibility into where the global maxima lie in the space. If you blindly hill-climb, you will end up at the top of the nearest hill, terrified to move because all derivatives point down, while the giant mountain of game design awesomeness is sitting right over there.
→ No CommentsCategories: links
Tags:
links for July 29th
July 29th, 2010 · No Comments
-
Some of these are not nice at all. Really interesting to see the still from the Kubrick used in various ways, though.
→ No CommentsCategories: links
Tags:
links for July 27th
July 27th, 2010 · No Comments
-
"Every single player in finance suddenly had to face the fundamental problem—this whole economy is built on fraud and lies and garbage. So when Lehman collapsed, every single player panicked, going, ‘If Lehman was nothing but a Ponzi scheme—and I know what I’m running is a Ponzi scheme—that means everyone else is running a Ponzi scheme too! Run for the exits!’"
→ No CommentsCategories: links
Tags:
links for July 23rd
July 23rd, 2010 · No Comments
-
when my day-camp counselor asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I did not tell her that I hoped one day to correct who-whom mix-ups or determine whether “faucetry” was a real, dictionary-approved word. I told her I wanted to be a princess.
→ No CommentsCategories: links
Tags:
links for June 25th
June 25th, 2010 · No Comments
-
"But further investigation reveals a clear delineation between indoor/outdoor space with a design focus on protection through the use of barrier. Planes are shifted off the orthogonal to accommodate function; as a side effect it relieves inhabitants from a harsh Euclidian geometry"
-
"Simple, improvised, handmade, mindless things made in the spirit of fun for someone I love… the things I make for my daughter are maybe just a pure form of the things I try to make in general."
→ No CommentsCategories: links
Tags:
links for June 2nd
June 2nd, 2010 · No Comments
-
"Aperture Science is pleased to inform you that we have partnered with Valve to announce the gala CANCELLATION of the June 14 Portal 2 event at the Regal Theater. The event will be replaced by a surprise."
→ No CommentsCategories: links
Tags:
links for May 27th
May 27th, 2010 · No Comments
-
Clay characters in bright colors are usually associated with childhood and fun. Seeing them in dangerous situations, helpless and hurt, people will realize that child injuries are something that shouldn’t happen.
→ No CommentsCategories: links
Tags: