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Entries Tagged as 'Culture'

“An Ceiling Cat sayed, im in ur waterz makin a ceiling” (Genesis 1: 6)

February 25th, 2008 · 9 Comments

Here’s me doing something silly.
I’m going to talk about English. Language evolution. Grammar. Cultural use and meaning. I cannot even talk right. Let alone spell. But me is stupid brave. So here goes.
Language is one of the things defining a group. When you talk the way others talk - you feel part of. But […]

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Tags: Culture · Marketing

Thought there was something there, but nothing. [Internet Cable breakdown]

February 5th, 2008 · 8 Comments

It was a cold and rainy Thursday. January 31st.
I got a call from our branch in India at 09:15 AM . “We don’t have internet”, they said.
“Cannot be”, I replied. “Restart your computer”.
But the word started spreading around noon. Two under water cables were cut. The internet in the middle east and India severely […]

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Tags: Culture · Mystery · scandal

A new story-telling media is born (Marketers of the world - Rejoice!)

January 17th, 2008 · 12 Comments

It goes like this:

Invent a bunch of fiction characters. Boys, girls.
Set up a location. Could be more than one.
Create a story around them - one being friend of the other, dating a girl freshly parted from her boyfriend, being a friend of another and so on. AKA: a script.
(up until now - nothing special, […]

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Tags: Culture

A once-a-year cosmic event

December 25th, 2007 · No Comments

There’s only one chance to see this site that way (You’ll probably see something slightly different. But yes - you guessed right. It means “Yes”):

go to: http://www.isitchristmas.com/
Merry Christmas everyone.

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Tags: Culture

I got the joke. I’m worried.

December 23rd, 2007 · 1 Comment

Found this in CrunchGear (originally here).

I got the joke.
I’m not a programmer.
I’m worried.

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Tags: Culture

The slow passing of time

December 19th, 2007 · No Comments

Found this video here, done by this guy, here.

Apparently, it all started when this guy’s girlfriend asked him sarcastically if he’s planning to use that camera he just bought everyday. Little had she known. Luckily, she didn’t ask that question regarding his new AK-47.
Update: Turns out this is not so original as I first thought. […]

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Tags: Culture

10 reasons why NOT writing a blog is a good idea

December 18th, 2007 · No Comments

I had no choice.
If I did, this blog would not have existed. Better for it. It’s no love child I can tell you that. But apparently, in today’s web-world, if you don’t labor over your own blog, you’re nothing. Nada.
So here we go. Well, actually, there are some posts before this one, but they […]

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Tags: Blogging · Culture