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10-Apr-2024
Roach Motels and Floppy Idioms
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe – Carl Sagan Yesterday in the hallways of chat of the IndieWeb people were comparing an upcoming Facebook API pondering a “data roach motel.” The history of companies providing an easy to use and free API as they roll...
23-Mar-2010
Which American Accent Do You Have?
“Or maybe you just moved around a lot growing up.” That sounds right. In Islands in the Net I think Sterling refers to the homogenization of American accents as the result of the flattening aspects of “the net.” Net English, I think it how he describes it. Consuming a lot of media–television–I’m sure has had...