Peer Review 1945
For all those who've had the pleasure of going through peer review - this video shows us that it affects even the worst of us:
Computational Linguistics goes open access… almost.
Good news: The journal Computational Linguistics is going open access in 2009.
Bad news: The announcement that the journal Computational Linguistics is going open access in 2009, isn't open access. Oh well, at least their hearts are in the right place!
The problems of bilingual road signs: “I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated”
When officials asked for the Welsh translation of a road sign, they thought the reply was what they needed.
Unfortunately, the e-mail response to Swansea council said in Welsh: "I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated".
Phrase of the week: “linguistically nerd this shit up”
"i'm going to go head and linguistically nerd this shit up."
Evolutionists Flock To Darwin-Shaped Wall Stain
A steady stream of devoted evolutionists continued to gather in this small Tennessee town today to witness what many believe is an image of Charles Darwin—author of The Origin Of Species and founder of the modern evolutionary movement—"made manifest on a concrete wall in downtown Dayton.
I have tried hard to substitute deer and mosquitoes for sharks and rats in my house of horrors, but it’s just not working.
Joe Queenan in the LA Times tries to justify his hatred of sharks, hyenas and anacondas:
Like most people in this country, I have long hated sharks, largely because of what they did to Robert Shaw in "Jaws." For years, I thought of sharks as mindless, demonic eating machines, an attitude reinforced by the harrowing story Shaw told Richard Dreyfuss and Roy Scheider about the 1945 Japanese torpedo attack on the U.S. cruiser Indianapolis. Although many of the 880 casualties died because of exposure or drinking saltwater, many were eaten by the tigers of the deep. So, all in all, it seemed almost unpatriotic not to hate them.