Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- What enterprise still uses IE 6? Try Intel – My company is still officially on IE6 (though anyone with half an ounce of initiative has upgraded on their own, or is using FF or chrome whenever possible). We do have plans Real Soon Now to jump to IE8.
- If you do not stand firm, you get destroyed – Okay, that just makes my skin crawl.
- Fox News flunks geography — again (pic) — The Live Feed | THR – It’s a desperately bad graphic anyway.
- 2012hoax: Chile Earthquake – Well, that’s good to know. It sure seemed like there were a lot of quakes going on all of a sudden –which is a combo of cognitive distortions and media attention.
- Dating Tips for Women – SMBC February 28, 2010 – Um … yeah, pretty much.
- 11 Little-Known Grammatical Errors That Will Shock and Horrify You – Yes, I am That Guy.
- Detective Comics #27 sells for more than $1 million, sets new record | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment – Batman beats Superman. Of course.
- Zombies have First Amendment rights, too, says U.S. court | SCI FI Wire – Speaking truth to BRAINS …
- The consequences of failure – It’s not a matter of maintaining the health care access status quo. The status quo is unmaintainable. It’s a matter of trying to solve the problems, or let the problems spiral ever deeper.
- Sen. Alexander: Using Reconciliation To Pass Health Care Reform Would ‘End The Senate’ – Lamar has, unfortunately, come a long way from his plaid shirts and folksy manner as a presidential candidate.
- Regulation Now, Regulation Tomorrow, Regulation Forever – Money graf: “Like Wallace and his supporters 40 years ago, today’s conservative populists are long on anger and short on coherence. For Wallace, small-government rhetoric was a trope, not a workable agenda. The same is true of his Republican heirs today, who insist that spending cuts alone, without tax increases, will restore fiscal balance but who have not proposed anywhere near enough spending cuts, primarily because they can’t.”
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I didn’t know about “collide,” and I habitually use “hopefully.” Perhaps it is time to declare that the meaning of those words has changed.
Well … dictionaries are descriptive, not prescriptive, so in theory when meanings change, they change. On the other hand, some consensual order of how language is to be used and what words mean is necessary for there to be actual communication. So … I’m willing to buy “hopefully” (since I commit that sin myself), at least.