This is as off-topic as you can get, but I can't stand it when people use "i.e." when they actually mean "e.g."--"can stop blunt objects (i.e. a flying 2×4)" makes it sound like a flying 2x4 is the only blunt object the author knows of. Lately, it's felt like a lost battle though.
Most does not mean almost. Most any science department will tell you...: Wrong Most science departments will tell you...: Right Almost any science department will tell you...: Right.
It was indeed meant as a post in jest. In fact, I like English spelling. Ridiculous as it might sound, I think the efforts of learning to spell and gaining the ability to spell well are rewarding and worth doing, like the skill to write well or read efficiently. And because spelling in English (like so many other things in language) is so irregular, this task is challenging and fun.
The Mark Twain quote reminded me of the following, printed in my high school yearbook and probably inspired by it:
The Great European Dream
The European Union commissioners have announced that agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility.
As part of the negotiations, the British government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five-year phased plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish. In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c." Sertainly, sivil servants will resieve this news with joy. Also, the hard "c" will be replaced with "k." Not only will this klear up konfusion, but typewriters kan have one less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced by "f." This will make words like "fotograf" 20 per sent shorter.
In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a dterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent "e"s in the languag is disgrasful, and they would go. By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" by "z" and "w" by "v." During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou," and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters. After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi to understand ech ozer.
Ze drem vil finali kum tru.
Look at the screenshot at http://webaccelerator.google.com/done_ff.html . Somebody needs to tell them that their Firefox needs to be updated.
And, I think it's doing pretty well, specially with websites from servers that I have visited before, such as Fark Photoshop contests. But it didn't work so well for a site hosted outside the US (I tried http://www.nepalitimes.com/ ).
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This is as off-topic as you can get, but I can't stand it when people use "i.e." when they actually mean "e.g."--"can stop blunt objects (i.e. a flying 2×4)" makes it sound like a flying 2x4 is the only blunt object the author knows of. Lately, it's felt like a lost battle though.
Flashblock is your friend.
Knock knock
Erm... I believe that's a quote from the article itself... now incorrect quoting would be worse, wouldn't it?
It's not exactly a sentence fragment anyway.
Because people begin sentences with conjunctions all the time.
...here is a list of the extensions from TFA:
StumbleUpon Yahoo! Mail Notifier Gmail Manager Greasemonkey
Firefox Showcase Cooliris Previews Colorful Tabs
Chroma Tabs Google Browser Sync Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer Session Manager
All-in-One Gestures IE Tab Download Statusbar Download Sort
Nuke Anything Enhanced ForecastFox Answers FireFTP
Firebug Web Developer MeasureIt
ColorZilla
...is that clicking on the wheel-like thing on the top right corner no longer takes you to the Firefox update (themes / extensions etc.) page.
Most does not mean almost.
Most any science department will tell you...: Wrong
Most science departments will tell you...: Right
Almost any science department will tell you...: Right.
subjects like "Man f***ing hot blonde"?
That's spam?
...the greatest physics jokes collection. Lots of other science jokes there as well.
...they can finally tell us what RSS really stands for.
One more, a good resource not only for CSS but many different web technologies, mostly for beginners:
W3 schools (Warning: Has a popup, but it's worth it)
Note the default picks on the stock ticker: GOOG, MSFT, and YHOO. In that order!
I don't know about why those three are there but I am pretty sure that the order is alphabetical.
It was indeed meant as a post in jest. In fact, I like English spelling. Ridiculous as it might sound, I think the efforts of learning to spell and gaining the ability to spell well are rewarding and worth doing, like the skill to write well or read efficiently. And because spelling in English (like so many other things in language) is so irregular, this task is challenging and fun.
The Mark Twain quote reminded me of the following, printed in my high school yearbook and probably inspired by it: The Great European Dream The European Union commissioners have announced that agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, the British government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five-year phased plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish. In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c." Sertainly, sivil servants will resieve this news with joy. Also, the hard "c" will be replaced with "k." Not only will this klear up konfusion, but typewriters kan have one less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced by "f." This will make words like "fotograf" 20 per sent shorter. In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a dterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent "e"s in the languag is disgrasful, and they would go. By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" by "z" and "w" by "v." During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou," and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters. After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi to understand ech ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru.
I second that. 2001 ought to be there. If for nothing, at least for the ahead-of-its-time special effects, and HAL.
Look at the screenshot at http://webaccelerator.google.com/done_ff.html . Somebody needs to tell them that their Firefox needs to be updated. And, I think it's doing pretty well, specially with websites from servers that I have visited before, such as Fark Photoshop contests. But it didn't work so well for a site hosted outside the US (I tried http://www.nepalitimes.com/ ).