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August 2008

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Which words do we use the most?

Here are the top 10 most commonly used words in the English language.

  1. the
  2. of
  3. and
  4. a
  5. to
  6. in
  7. is
  8. you
  9. that
  10. it

And here’s a link to the top 100 

Aug 24, 2008
Geekosystem → geekosystem.org

The Geekosystem is a project by Julian Priest, David Merritt, and Adam Hyde. We have all been and are sometimes artists working with communities, technology, and anything else we find interesting. The Geekosystem itself is a system of geekery that takes places in art galleries and art spaces and invites local communities of geeks and non-geeks alike to come together and explore old technologies, discuss gadgetry, read old computer books, contemplate the ethics and ideologies of planned obsolescence, find new uses for hardware, make things, show others how to make things, and shred proprietary software manuals (and turn them into soil).

Link from gnat via Twitter.

Aug 15, 2008
“

Sometimes you just wish you were a photographer….. I simply do not have the words to describe the awesome majesty of Greenland’s Kangia Glacier, shedding massive icebergs the size of skyscrapers and slowly pushing them down the Ilulissat Fjord until they crash into the ocean off the west coast of Greenland.

- Thomas Friedman NY Times
http://tinyurl.com/6k94p6

”
—I often wish I were a photographer too. Better sometimes to say it with one image rather than hundreds of words.
Aug 7, 2008
“The USDA has a strict cap on the amount of chlorine that can be used in these chiller baths [used to wash freshly killed chickens]: no more than 50 parts per million, or 50 ounces for every 7,800 gallons of water. As a point of comparison, the federal limit on chlorine used in drinking water is 4 ppm, and swimming pools usually contain 1 to 3 ppm. (That distinctive pool smell usually attributed to chlorine is actually produced by the combination of chlorine and perspiration, body oils, and urine.)” —http://www.slate.com/id/2196197/
Aug 4, 2008
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