old consultant’s addage … fast, cheap, good … pick 2
Why oh why is it so difficult to get that concept across? I always try to convey this concept when working on a project but its like some kind of mental block. Like…..’why can’t we do it like Google?’…..’er because thier R&D budget is $.5billion ours is $0 (GDP0)’.
List of English words invented by Shakespeare
Originally via Wikipedia
William Shakespeare introduced more words into English than all other poets of his lifetime combined. Although it is often difficult to determine the true origin of a word, the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) verified the following words Shakespeare originated or words that he was the first to use in print.
Postmodernism: according to its protagonists, a completely new way of looking at the world, academic study, philosophy, artistic production etc, arising from the ‘discoveries’ of Foucault, Barthes, Derrida, Lyotard, Baudrillard (in France) and Jameson (in America) and the so-called ‘linguistic turn,’ supposed to have happened in the late 1960s or early 1970s, and maintaining in essence that ‘everything is constructed with language,’ that is to say that outside language there is really no reality. Postmodernism derives its view of the world from Marxism and maintains that the societies we live in, being bourgeois, are evil; while some postmodernists take up an entirely nihilistic position, most support radical political action and aim at the destruction of all traditional or modern modes of thought and study (dismissed as ‘grand narratives). In reality, postmodernism is a totalising belief system based on faith alone. It is distinguished by elaborate rhetoric and a specialised jargon, which fails to conceal the essential naivety of its basic ideas, derived from a discredited Marxism. It often sounds like nonsense that is because it is nonsense.
Source: The New Nature of History by Arthur Marwick.
‘Course the bourgeois would say that.
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Its two years since I started blogging! Below shows the design evolution.
The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth – it is the truth which conceals that there is none.
The simulacrum is true.Ecclesiastes
Abstraction today is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror or the concept.
Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being or a substance. It is the
generation by models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal. The territory no
longer precedes the map, nor survives it. Henceforth, it is the map that precedes the
territory – PRECESSION OF SIMULACRA – it is the map that engenders the
territory and if we were to revive the fable today, it would be the territory whose
shreds are slowly rotting across the map. It is the real, and not the map, whoseJean Baudrillard
Sorry, had to be done….
we’re just playing around with all the variables within the framework
People, we are through the looking glass.
Apparently Ashley Cole’s lawyer is demanding answers from the Oligarchs of search, Google Inc. over his
client’s representation in a Google search of his name (type in ‘Ashley Cole’ and google offers the suggestion Did you mean ‘Ashley Cole gay’):
Shear (Cole’s lawyer) has now asked Google to explain this anomaly with their search engine, telling Pink News: “I am keen to find out whether the decision to automatically include the term ‘gay’ to the keyword ‘Ashley Cole’ was an editorial decision or one made by a computer based on the volume of searches for ‘Ashley Cole’ linked to the word ‘gay’.
Arghh, ofcourse it’s automatic. Does this guy honestly think there is some dude sat in Googleplex looking at the typed searches and going ‘now lets see?….this person typed studip, did he mean stupid? Yeah that’ll be it’
Maybe if he used google to find out:
Please note that our spell check feature is completely automated, and we cannot make manual changes to individual suggestions.
Ofcourse if anything this is just likely to perpetuate the problem, especially as the newswires are picking up on the story.
