Easy!
]]>Looks like this group wants to make 402s more commonplace? More power to ‘em.
]]>I’ve tried to make it painless to initialize on a fresh box; just check it out (git clone git://github.com/aphahn/dotfiles.git) and run ./create_symlinks.py. It won’t overwrite any dotfiles you have, and will symbolic link to the repo. Additionally .vimrc and .zshrc will source a .vimrclocal or .zshrclocal, respectively, if they exist. This is useful for having machine-specific customizations.
Finally, I have unified configurations across my machines! No more remembering what changes I made on my work box when I’m at home! No more emailing people copies of my .vimrc when they ask for a good starting point!
]]>(I couldn’t find a good repository of lyrics for any other genre, but I’m guessing that this is a lot of mentions of both major broadcast licensers.)
P.S.: If you can find it, De La Soul’s “Live @ the Dugout 87” is tight. It was on some mixtape I have, but I can’t remember which one…
]]>The “about this artist” tab showed the following (excerpt):
Nappy Roots began making music together at a local record shop-c*m-studio named ET’s Music, and released their full-length debut, Country Fried Cess, in 1998.
What? “shop-c*m-studio”?
It took me a second to realize that someone wrote a regular expression (perhaps \bcum\b) assuming that every instance of the word “cum” was… obscene, and not thinking about the combining preposition.
Perhaps this isn’t a case of bad regular expressions, but a bigger statement about the word. Maybe the implementor of the regular expression thought it was dirty. Do kids today know this word has some other (more legitimate) meaning? At least x-cum-y is pronounced differently (koŏm) than the obscene word (kəm). On the other hand, “anal” (as in “anal-retentive”) is pronounced the same as the other anatomical adjective, and we don’t snicker when we hear that… do we?
]]>[via Visor, the absolutely essential Terminal.app companion]
]]>Have you ever had to repeat a word over and over again really quickly? I most recently remember this happening to me with the word “false.” Just say it out loud. “False.” Break it down. “false.” Again: false false false false.
It just becomes letters and sounds—I can’t convince myself the thing ever had meaning.
Why it happens is pretty cool:
The explanation for the phenomenon was that verbal repetition repeatedly aroused a specific neural pattern in the cortex which corresponds to the meaning of the word. Rapid repetition causes both the peripheral sensorimotor activity and the central neural activation to fire repeatedly, which is known to cause reactive inhibition, hence a reduction in the intensity of the activity with each repetition.
Neural adaptation: useful for tricking your vision, and now, your language.
[via Best of Wikipedia]
]]>Apparently, it’s because of “Souljah Boy.” Yes. With the ‘h.’ The (much less famous) rapper sued and forced Mr. Way to change his official stage name to Soulja Boy Tell ‘Em.
Of course, there will always be the original “Soldier Boy” for us:
P.S.: If your ears can take it, give the remix a chance.
]]>In the director’s commentary, Doug Pray mentioned that they had someone pore over all the past DMC competitions for some awesome footage, and reigning champion Roc Raida’s 1996 set was chosen for his crazy body tricks. The tricks really start at 4:45 in the clip below: