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“There is no such thing really as professional photographers” (and “professional” vs. expert”
New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is getting heat for this: “…there’s no such thing as Flickr Pro, because today, with cameras as pervasive as they are, there is no such thing really as professional photographers, when there’s everything is professional … Continue reading
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Word of the Day – Bionics/Biomimicry/Biomimetics
From Wikipedia: Bionics (also known as biomimicry, biomimetics, bio-inspiration, biognosis, and close to bionical creativity engineering) is the application of biological methods and systems found in nature to the study and design of engineering systems and modern technology.[citation needed] The … Continue reading
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Word of the Day – Selfie
From Urban Dictionary: A picture taken of yourself that is planned to be uploaded to Facebook, Myspace or any other sort of social networking website. You can usually see the person’s arm holding out the camera in which case you … Continue reading
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Word of the Day – Sleeze
Sleeze: to sneeze properly (into one’s sleeve) when a tissue isn’t handy. (Variation: sneeve.) Previous WOTD – Justified Tuesday – What’s the Badger Game Lindsey Talked About?
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Justified Tuesday – What’s the Badger Game Lindsey Talked About?
In episode 3, Lindsey reveals to Raylan that she and her ex-husband stole from people and that they specifically used something called a badger game. The next weekend I watched a 1941 movie, Shadow of the Thin Man, that mentioned … Continue reading
Word of the Day – Plasma Globe or Plasma Lamp
Plasma Globe from Wikipedia: A plasma globe or plasma lamp (also called plasma ball, dome, sphere, tube or orb, depending on shape), is (usually) a clear glass orb filled with a mixture of various noble gases with a high-voltage electrode … Continue reading
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Word of the Day – Success Theater
From WordSpy: success theater n. Posting images and stories designed to make others believe you are more successful than you really are. Example Citations: We’ve become better at choreographing ourselves and showing our best sides to the screen, capturing the … Continue reading
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Word of the Day – Paraph and Pilcrow
Via my friend Beci. From Wikipedia: Many individuals have much more fanciful signatures than their normal cursive writing, including elaborate ascenders, descenders and exotic flourishes, much as one would find in calligraphic writing. As an example, the final “k” in … Continue reading
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Word of the Day – Spatchcock
From my friend Art on Facebook: “Spatchcock (verb) – to go all kinds of medieval on a turkey.” That’s about the long and short of it. Details from Alton Brown here. I’m taking Sean’s advice and brining the turkeys this … Continue reading
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Word of the Day – Brannock Device
From Wikipedia: The Brannock Device is a measuring instrument invented by Charles F. Brannock for measuring a person’s shoe size. The son of a shoe industry entrepreneur, Brannock attended Syracuse University, New York, U.S.A. where he became a member of … Continue reading
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Word of the Day – Manica
From Wikipedia: The Latin word “manica” means a sleeve.[1] A manica was a type of iron or bronze arm guard, with curved and overlapping metal segments or plates, fastened to leather straps, worn by Roman gladiators called crupellarii, and later … Continue reading
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Word of the Day – Coppicing
From Wikipedia: Coppicing is a traditional method of woodland management which takes advantage of the fact that many trees make new growth from the stump or roots if cut down. In a coppiced wood, young tree stems are repeatedly … Continue reading
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Word of the Day – Supercut
Not the haircut place. From Supercut.org: A fast-paced montage of short video clips that obsessively isolates a single element from its source, usually a word, phrase, or cliche from film and TV. Hat tip to Ironic Sans, whose goof on … Continue reading
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Word of the Day – Wikipedia
From Wikipedia: Wikipedia (i/ˌwɪkɨˈpiːdiə/ or i/ˌwɪkiˈpiːdiə/ WIK-i-PEE-dee-ə) is a free, collaboratively edited, and multilingual Internet encyclopedia supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its 22 million articles (over 4 million in English alone) have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the … Continue reading
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Word of the Day – Skeuomorph
Uncle’s link to The Floppy Disk means Save, and 14 other old people Icons that don’t make sense anymore led me to this word. From Wikipedia: A skeuomorph /ˈskjuːəmɔrf/ SKEW-ə-morf, or skeuomorphism (Greek: skeuos—vessel or tool, morphe—shape),[1] is a derivative … Continue reading
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