As is disturbingly common for average young women today (and a few men, but mostly women), I have a cyber-stalker. What was once seen largely as part of the price of fame is now available to the masses, and affects as many as 1 in 8 Brits. And while hardcore stalkers of old may scoff [...]
In a slightly more banal lost-in-translation disparity than the whole “crisis-opportunity” thing, the French the word for upload and download is technically one and the same: Télécharger. While many French interfaces dodge around it by using recevoir/envoyer or importer/exporter for clarity, I think it’s neat that for “Télécharger” the focus is on the action in [...]
Coming out of the metro this morning I noticed a disturbing ad for gum aimed at people too rushed in the morning to brush their teeth. It’s one thing to acknowledge every one of us may have been in that situation, but another to actually market to those who slack off enough on oral hygiene [...]
Last Friday I remembered a Soviet joke from an old IB history textbook that I used to like, so I decided to share it with a coworker: Liesl: Why does the secret police always travel in threes? Intrigued coworker: I don’t know, why? Liesl: One can read, one can write, and one keeps an eye [...]
