Don't mean to thread hijack, but it seems this thread was pretty far gone
anyway.
I must say that the English phonotactics are really on display here.
Googlezon sounds like something big, heavy and vaguely dangerous, a kind of
Golem but somewhat clunky and difficult to take seriously, like the
Eric -
Great observation. I'm very interested in the power of how things are
*shaped* in their ability to persuade (all perceptions, with sound being
unique). It also ties into synaesthetic experiences. Your description
of the hypothetical Douglas Adams creature is a good example of how t
Hi Steve, thanks,
> I do suspect that the EPIC2014 folks chose Googlezon specifically for it's
> phonetic reference to Godzilla...
Yes, I think so too.
> I have tried to follow some of the Neuro Linguistic Programming literature
> but got put off by the cultish mind-control factions ther
Thanks, Eric.
It's great to hear your voice.
I think this is the first time I have ever bent one of Doug''s threads, so,
while I am at it, I am going to bend it real good!
The philosopher Rorty would insist that we have to include HISTORY, just
plain old history, as one of the factors.
Eric,
Your reference to EPIC2014 suggests you remember the provenance of the
original spoof, which I am still hoping to find. But I got nothing when I
googled epic2014. Do you remember it? Nobody else has confessed to having
seen it, yet. Can you give me more breadcrumbs? Nick
From:
http://www.robinsloan.com/epic/
On Feb 28, 2013, at 11:13 AM, "Nicholas Thompson"
wrote:
> Eric,
>
> Your reference to EPIC2014 suggests you remember the provenance of the
> original spoof, which I am still hoping to find. But I got nothing when I
> googled epic2014. Do you remember it?
The more I look at what this guy has done, the more I find it objectionable and
fraudulent. Depending on the your culture, he has enormous chutzpah or cajones.
It takes a lot of them to call what he has done glsl.js; that's the fraudulent
part. He's taken a small part of GLSL, which is specified
All,
You all are due an apology. As you all know I believe in the power of a
naïve question. And, you know, that friendly people in general and friendly
crowds, in particular, can be particularly useful at the beginning of
thinking about a problem, when the big mistakes are made. And, you
Since I asked the questions on this list, and now have the answers, I might as
well send them back to the list.
On Feb 26, 2013, at 9:24 AM, Barry MacKichan
wrote:
> Embedding code in documentation was only half of Knuth's Web (Wow! This dates
> back to when the word 'web' had no other meaning
My Bad Nick, I thought I had included a link in my original jumped thread:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPIC_2014
Eric,
Your reference to EPIC2014 suggests you remember the provenance of the
original spoof, which I am still hoping to find. But I got nothing
when I googled epic2014. Do you
That's, um, "slithy toves". You know, the ones that gire and gimble in the
wabe.
It's pronounced "Throat-Warbler Mangrove", though.
Another factor in 'why GoogleZon' is that perhaps the name is meant to
instill the sense that this is an unholy mashup of two already cluttered
giants. The name certa
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