Grammar Pro Tip
Tue, 2012-05-15 22:22 — KonstantinIf you're not sure whether you can use a company's name as a synecdoche for an account you have with that company, substitute in "Bank of America" and see if it still makes sense.
Examples:
Help, someone hacked into my Facebook!
Help, someone hacked into my Bank of America! ✘
All my friends have Tumblrs.
All my friends have Banks of America [or Bank of Americas]. ✘
My mom still doesn't have a Twitter.
My mom still doesn't have a Bank of America. ✘
Rustle of Spring
Sat, 2012-05-12 14:22 — Konstantin
Uploading all the photos to Drupal is just a bit too tedious. I'll have to come up with a better system for the future.
Just searched Gmail for...
Thu, 2012-03-01 23:38 — Konstantin
Thankfully, no results were found.
This would, however, make for an excellent Easter egg.
An excellent Googlebomb
Sat, 2011-12-10 01:57 — KonstantinTry searching Google for партия жуликов и воров (the party of swindlers and thieves). The top result is the official site of Единая Россия (United Russia), the political party of Putin and Medvedev.
This wonderfully descriptive slogan was recently coined by the political opposition in Russia, in the context of the country's latest fraudulent national elections.
Tear-off polls in Somerville
Sun, 2011-08-07 19:01 — KonstantinToday, on at least two lampposts along Beacon Street in Somerville, I saw tear-off flyers that, instead of the typical offers of computer repairs or nanny services, presented polls.
The two questions I saw were "Would you raise a kid here?" and "Do you talk to your neighbors?" Below the questions, there were tear-off tabs, half "Yes" and half "No". (I didn't have a camera with me, unfortunately.)
This seems to be an ingenious (though totally unreliable) way to conduct a local poll. Does anyone have any idea as to who posted these and why?
UPDATE: (2011-08-14) Google reveals that these were done by a Somerville artist named Tim Devin. Here is his description of the surveys.
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View and fork the full source on GitHub: https://github.com/kpozin/jquery-ajaxprogress
What is it?
This jQuery plugin provides access to the onprogress event of the XMLHttpRequest object available in modern browsers.
This allows you to get the information needed to visually show download progress when your web application is making a large AJAX request.
The code has been tested in recent versions of Chrome/Chromium and in Firefox 4.
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Sat, 2011-05-28 12:55 — Konstantin
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