Category Archives: miscellaneous

The Globe and Mail notes Tim Hortons’ expansion in to the US. Still: none in California.

Gender Differences in Spoken and Written Communication: For example, women tend to use more affective markers (e.g., “I know how you feel”), more diminutives (e.g., “little bitty insect”), more hedge words (e.g., perhaps, sort of), more politeness markers (e.g., “I hate to bother you”), and more tag questions (e.g., “We’re leaving at 8:00 pm, aren’t …

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13 things that do not make sense.

Conrad, Charles, and Eugene live next door to each other. One is an engineer, one is a teacher, and one is a lawyer. Determine each person’s occupation based on these 3 clues: 1. Charles lives in the middle apartment. 2. When Eugene goes away, his dog is fed by the teacher. 3. The engineer knocks …

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tips from stopdesign. (you know 43 folders, right?)

ChangeThis.

Two-Finger-Scrolling with pre-2005 PowerBooks and iBooks.

Colleges’ land lines nearing silent end: Five years ago, the school made hundreds of thousands of dollars a year on long-distance service, said Carl Whitman, executive director of the Office of Information Technology. Last semester, the school made $1,109.

Groundhog Day and the State of the Union Address coincided this year.One involves a meaningless ritual in which we look to a creature of little intelligence for prognostication. The other involves a groundhog.