February 2012
3 posts
Word of the day: nag
To find fault or complaint in a relentless and irritating manner.
Word of the day: hiss.
The sound cats, snakes and fizzy drinks make.
Word of the day: gusty →
Blowing in or marked by gusts; given to sudden outbursts, as of emotion or temperament.
January 2012
5 posts
Word of the day: contrived →
Not spontaneous or natural; affected, artificial, laboured.
Word of the day: dreary →
Bleak, boring, dull.
Word of the day: breezy →
Casual or carefree; light-hearted; lacking substance.
Word of the day: muffled →
To wrap or pad in order to deaden the sound.
December 2011
13 posts
Word of the day: haptic →
Tactile, relating to or based on the sense of touch.
Word of the day: jittery →
Having or feeling nervous unease, as if bitten by a bug (hence jitterbug).
Word of the day: ominous →
Presaging something bad that is going to happen.
HTML poetry
<!DOCTYPE html> <html>
I want to give you <head> so much that
<ul>
<img>ine magical stars
and then </img>ine me dying so
</ul> get rid of me forever and no longer get </head>
forever not yours <html>
By Jacqui Browne
Got wood?
Word of the day: jaded →
Cynically or pretentiously callous (think of @charltonbrooker).
Phrase of the day: buggered if I know →
“I don’t know why..” or “I don’t have a clue..”
The buggered expresses exasperation at the fact that you don’t understand something, as if a bug was buggering you.
Word of the day: sloven →
A person who is habitually negligent in appearance, hygiene, or work.
Word of the day: dating →
To slice dates in a dish.
Word of the day: ploy →
An action calculated to frustrate an opponent or gain an advantage indirectly or deviously; a maneuver.
Word of the day: crooked →
Not straight or aligned.
November 2011
16 posts
Word of the day: crockery →
Tableware.
Word of the day: slumber →
A state of inactivity or dormancy.
Word of the day: mauve →
A moderate grayish violet to moderate reddish purple.
Word of the day: bodice →
The fitted part of a dress that extends from the waist to the shoulder.
Word of the day: limp →
Lacking strength or firmness; weak or spiritless.
Word of the day: forensic →
Relating to, used in, or appropriate for courts of law. It is the acute investigation of every minute detail of a crime scene: swabbing tiny smears of bodily fluids and footprints to somehow track or trace the cause.
Word of the day: flimsy →
Lacking solidity or strength, fragile.
Unconvincing, not plausible.
Word of the day: tug →
To pull at (vigorously or) repeatedly.
Word of the day: dredging (through) →
Dredging is an excavation activity or operation usually carried out at least partly underwater, in shallow seas or fresh water areas with the purpose of gathering up bottom sediments and disposing of them at a different location. This technique is often used to keep waterways navigable. Dredging through the thick mud of an essay, clumsy swamp of words (fig.)
Word of the day: eerie →
Inspiring inexplicable fear, dread, or uneasiness; strange and frightening.
Word of the day: coax →
To persuade or try to persuade by pleading or flattery.
Phrase of the day: walk of shame →
The walk of shame refers to a phenomenon in which a person must walk past strangers or peers alone for an embarrassing reason before reaching a place of privacy.
Phrase of the day: stand (someone) up →
To fail to keep a date with.
Word of the day: uncanny →
The Uncanny (Ger. Das Unheimliche: “scary”, “creepy”) is a Freudian concept of an instance where something can be familiar, yet foreign at the same time, resulting in a feeling of it being uncomfortably strange or uncomfortably familiar.
Word of the day: sniffles, the →
A condition, such as a head cold, accompanied by congestion of the nose. Used with the.
Word of the day: scuppered →
Ruined or destroyed.
October 2011
6 posts
Word of the day: snuggle →
To lie or press close together; cuddle.
Word of the day: galavant →
To roam about in search of pleasure or amusement.
Word of the day: plucking →
To remove or detach by grasping and pulling abruptly with the fingers; pick.
Word of the day: subsiding →
To become less agitated or active; decrease.
De-minified JS storytelling?
We all like JavaScript (combined with HTML & CSS) because it’s “open source”, in the sense that we can right-click and learn how things work.
Because of this open nature, and to save kilobytes, some developers decide to minify their code, ie. to squeeze the names of methods and properties into short letter-codes. This makes code smaller in filesize, and very cumbersome to...
September 2011
2 posts
ASBO generations
Boxed: Diary from the Urban Dreamland
by Aindri Chakraborty
August 2011
1 post
Guess the browser
A fun game for the whole family..
July 2011
1 post
3 tags
Norwegian blood
The massacre was carried out by a fundamentalist Christian. Now go and bomb Medjugorje.
(via Spinoza)
June 2011
6 posts
