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March 15, 2005
The moose who chose to lose whose nose?
Arnold Zwicky says that lose is the only English word with /uz/ […]

TimeCME-based editor works great with WordPress.
WYSIWYG Plugin For Wordpress
by Joe Schmoe — Feb. 2, 2005 @ 9:34 am

This plugin replaces the Wordpress "quicktags" with a wysiwyg(what you see is what you get) editor. It allows you to format post text […]

But the sheer weirdness of Ke’o, Ngadha and Rongga strikes me […]

New addition to the Google Tools family since March 8. From what I could understand from the Kanji in the Japanese version and the pseudo-English translation (below; you decide which is more readable), you put in a word in kana and it returns keywords in Kanji. Sounds useful.

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EverNote.com has brought RitePen? Anyway, the flagship product, EverNote, seems to be a OneNote-killer.
So far the only things I do not see are audio/vidio recording/synch
with notes, integration with Outlook (which I don’t use anyway), and
the "research" functions (which I do use).
In addition to being a non-M$ product, EverNote also supports (or […]

INF: Fixing ‘The underlying connection was closed: The server committed an HTTP protocol violation.’

The
.Net framework version 1.1 SP1 and later adds protection against poorly
formed HTTP headers.  This is to prevent the HTTP Response Splitting
exploit.  Unfortunately […]

this is a mouse-based pop-up dict (and a translation engine?) that underlies PopJISyo.com.
I’ve seen several similar products, mostly from Taiwan and Mainland
China. This one seems to be primarly Japanese-based. Should be useful
for my research (which I will disclose later).
by way of LangaugeHat.

POPtrans combines a multi-language dictionary,
translation aid […]

Geoff Pullum’s
investigative report on Irish words for sex has managed to pull Chinese
into the game. No, I am not going to offer a corresponding list of sex
words in Chinese, because the argument was that neither Irish nor
Chinese has a separate word for "YES" or "NO."
The story about Irish lacking particles meaning "yes" […]

Research in Developmental Disabilities

Volume 26, Issue 4
,
July-August 2005,
Pages 393-397
The use of conditional probability analysis to identify a response chain leading to the occurrence of eye poking

Louis P. Hagopian, , Theodosia […]

Computers in Human Behavior […]

Genetic lie detectors we are, according to some. But the title of the NewScientist blog post
still troubles me. Most of the studies cited in the article deal with
money in a lab setting, and the researchers are often uninterested in
(or avoid) collecting anything information about how participants
justify their behaviors. The underlying assumption is still […]

Lie detection has been around for centuries in various forms, based on
the belief that liars and cheats betray themselves through their
physiology. In ancient China suspects were given rice to chew, the idea
being that liars […]

From LanguageLog by Mark Liberman. Dan Everett’s upcoming paper provides a vivid description of the Pirahã culture and language — through the lenses of a Western linguistic anthopologist. His argument is loud and clear — the Pirahã culture drives the structure and use of the language, as well as all other aspects of […]

Moving from MT to WordPress? It’s about time. email posting would be nice, as is nested categories. But will the WYSIWYG poster work for WP? What about the template?

Importing from Movable Type
The script for importing Movable Type posts into your WordPress blog is located at http://your.blog.folder/wp-admin/import-mt.php.

A number of people have written […]

PhpMyAdmin hack: Today 10:45am from
128.122.99.92 (LAB15.ECON.NYU.EDU). The hacker successfully uploaded a
tftp and a ftp program, but they were caught by the anti-virus program.
I happed to be in front of the computer and caught the hacking in
action.

Announcement-ID: PMASA-2004-4
Date: 2004-12-13

Summary:
Two vulnerabilities were found in phpMyAdmin, that may allow
command execution and file disclosure.

Description:
We received a […]

November 25, 2002
Volume 80, Number 47
CENEAR 80 47 pp. 64, 66
ISSN 0009-2347
CRASH COURSE IN LAB MANAGEMENT
Two foundations take the lead in teaching the skills that young faculty will need to succeed

AMANDA YARNELL, C&EN WASHINGTON
It’s
that time of year […]

Mark Liberman’s 4-point plan to improve science
and science communication — almost exactly what the SPIN is about. So
far SPIN 2 focuses on point #2. I’ve insisted to include a
slashdot-style community for educational decision making — which is
not exactly science, but hopefully involves science.

1. Encourage everyone to think about science, and to […]