Go here, then click the Next button, then read the title again.
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Cisco is short for San Fran-ditto. Canon (Kwanon) is the Buddhist god of mercy. Hitachi means sunrise in Japanese. Mitsubishi means three diamonds. Nin-ten-do ironically means ‘heaven blesses hard work’. HP was not PH because of a coin-toss. It’s Hotmail because it contains h, t, m and l. Co-founder’s wife mistakenly thought Novell was French for ‘New’ (pardon her French). Sony (Sonus) is Latin for sound. Xer(ox) means dry. Originally, an Apache server was a patchy server. And other company name etymologies. Via del.icio.us/dabitch.
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I love Vesterbro, Copenhagen. Three floors down, somebody just made a hand brake turn. To get a shawarma.
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If this is a real Longhorn screenshot, Sun was there first. Well. They always were. More about Sun’s Looking Glass.
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Try a Newcastle Brown Ail. They have it in the ground floor cafe of my building. We could do this together, you know. I’m single.

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I think it’s kind of cute when XP pair programmers sign their emails with their names on both sides of an ampersand. It reminds me of dinner invitations from one couple to another.

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Via Messenger.
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According to this New York Times info graphic, the sticker does the trick.

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It’s a top 86,800 list of the most common words in English, based on The British National Corpse.

Like any fine fairground carousel, it has spin-offs. In this case – conspiracies. Lots of them. The sequences in which the words appear when ranked in order of communality reveal scary truths – and soothing lies. Find your own.

A few from the archive

But what is it about Denmark? As with the referrer poetry, add punctuation.

Just to point out the scariness of this, a Danish translation:

Okay, enough. To not let this end with fashion predictions, here’s the tracking of the tracking. Words we check out. Words that come first to mind.
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Why would you want something you already have? Wordweb is a handy little binary bugger. It knows vulgar words – and their vulgar as well as polite synonyms.

Based on the Wordnet lexical database, it has dictionary, definitions, usage examples, synonyms, antonyms, related concepts and a word type filter for all of them. But the handiness goes off your rocker when you discover the mark-anything-anywhere-press-shift-ctrl-w lookup-and-replace.

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You’d have no idea. A quick look a the anonymous warehouse in Romeoville, Illinois, US (pop. 21,000) would provoke not much more than ‘it’s an anonymous warehouse’.

Because that’s what it is. But inside all of the anonymousness, a lot (let’s just say 25 plus walk-ins) of McDonald’s employees come together and play a rather spectacular performance act.

Anonymous reporter, The Economist:

That sounds like a rather cool McJob.

In older news, the burger queen is testing kiosk displays, allowing those shy customers with voices gone hoarse – or even mute – who just hate pickles and mustard to get their order right. Every time. No questions asked.

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Probably just like you, I work for a serious corporation. We know our stuff – from our core products to office maintenance. Enough talk, let me show you what I mean

This mail made me feel paranoia creeping unhurriedly in my guts.

Am I the said office plant?

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If you’ve ever tried to rip your friend’s iPod during lunch, you propably got both irritated and hungry.

The music files are stored in obscurely named directories making sense to everyone but humans and computers without the song file database.

Next time, try iPod Player. It’s not only an iTunes alternative, it also extracts.

That sounded just like a tv ad (assuming you’re reading aloud – if you do, skip this parenthesis as you would normally). Speaking of which, check out the new batch of Nokia ads at ad-rag.

This just to let myself know it’s there. And it works, too.

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