Futurese: How will Americans speak in 1,000 years?
adminJustin B. Rye graduated from a Scottish University in Linguistics, worked for a short time as a sysadmin, and then spent the last 10 years unemployed. He built computers out…
Words are words, even if they aren’t in the dictionary
Lexicographer Erin McKean writes in Boston.com that English and any other language is designed to be upgraded constantly, and an inalienable right of speaking is inventing and using new words.…
Photosynth amazing
Microsoft has gotten its act together in forming a small team to develop software independently. The results are amazing. Photosynth is online software that "stitches" you photos together. We used…
First Person in College Humor
POV means Point of View. There are now 2 or 3 short, very funny, videos about college life using a first-person point of view. This means that we can hear…
Need a translator? Phone it in.
Jajah, an Internet telecommunications company, and IBM have teamed up to create a service that allows anyone to use a phone to translate between Chinese and English. For free (well,…