short takes

[cellio]

Quote of the day: "Don't worry if you don't know what eschatology is; it's not the end of the world." (From Dani.)

This map shows the dominant words used for soft drinks across the country. I don't know what's going on in Alaska, or in that swirl of yellow over Missouri.

Word of the day: insinuendo. (Applied to the phrase "sometimes it works the first time", referring to software development.)

Seen in a book on design patterns: "If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it might be a turkey wrapped in a duck adapter".

This one's been around for a few days, but in case there are folks who haven't seen it: a fun way to deal with folks who are stealing your wireless access (though tsk tsk for not locking it down if you care).

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[jerusha.livejournal.com]

If you're interested in the pop/soda line, you may be interested in the results of the Harvard Dialect survey, which looked at a whole bunch of dialect-inflected differences (like "What do you call the area of grass that occurs in the middle of some streets?")

The results are here; it's now at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee because the professor moved. (However, if you google "Harvard Dialect Survey", Harvard has a re-direct to the current home.)