A TV episode produced inexpensively and restricted in scope to use as few non-regular cast members, effects, and sets as possible. Most bottle episodes are shot on sets already built for other episodes, frequently the main interior sets for a series, and consist largely of dialogue or scenes for which no special preparations are needed.
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Southern American English – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Remembered this when I got to tweeting about modal stacking this afternoon. Y’all.
Southern American English – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Micromort – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“A unit of risk measuring a one-in-a-million probability of death”. (via Lone Gunman, which blog I found via Link Banana)
List of cognitive biases – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
These are fascinating.
Phonestheme – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The word refers to the “systematic pairing of form and meaning in a language” where “a word with a phonestheme in it has other material in it that is not itself a morpheme.”
For example, the English phonestheme “gl-” occurs in a large number of words relating to light or vision, like “glitter”, “glisten”, “glow”, “gleam”, “glare”, “glint”, and so on
I love this stuff. Here’s a list of English phonesthemes.
- /st/ is stable, stalwart, staunch, steadfast, steady, stolid, stout, and sturdy
- /sk/ scuffles, skips, scuttles, scoots, scampers, scurries, and skedaddles
- /dr/ drips, dribbles, drools, dredges, drizzles, drops, droops, and drags with the dross, dregs and the dreck
List of fictional elements, materials, isotopes and atomic particles – Wikipedia
List of fictional elements, materials, isotopes and atomic particles – Wikipedia
Six years ago Wikipedia started with a radical idea. That’s true. I ain’t promising you nothing extra. I’m just giving you life and you’re giving me life. And I’m saying that men can live together without butchering one another.
Now remember, when things look bad and it looks like you’re not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb, mad-dog mean. ‘Cause if you lose your head and you give up then you neither live nor win. That’s just the way it is.
Dyin’ ain’t much of a living, boy.
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UPDATE: Download the Safari extension by Troy Gaul that puts this on Wikipedia. After installing, see it in action here.
(via Daring Fireball)
Anagnorisis – Wikipedia
A moment in a play or other work when a character makes a critical discovery. Anagnorisis originally meant recognition in its Greek context, not only of a person but also of what that person stood for.
Terror management theory – Wikipedia
“A theory within psychology that focuses on the implicit emotional reactions of people that occur when confronted with the psychological terror of knowing we will eventually die.”
Astroturfing – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Astroturfing denotes political, advertising, or public relations campaigns that are formally planned by an organization, but are disguised as spontaneous, popular “grassroots” behavior.
Emotive conjugation – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Humans’ tendency to describe their own behavior more charitably than the behavior of others.”
Akrasia – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“The state of acting against one’s better judgment.” See also phronesis.
Palo Duro Canyon – Wikipedia
The second-largest canyon in the United States. I’d never heard of it.
Sword-and-sandal – Wikipedia
Basically, Sword-and-sandal : Hollywood epic film :: Spaghetti Western : Hollywood Western. And this is fascinating: “A number of English-dubbed Italian films that featured the Hercules name in their title were never intended to be Hercules movies by their Italian creators. [List of 8 examples]” Italian imitations of Hollywood that were later twisted and repackaged by the American movie industry. I love it.
Forer effect – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
And now I know the name for this. (via)
The Forer effect (also called the Barnum Effect after P.T. Barnum’s observation that “we’ve got something for everyone”) is the observation that individuals will give high accuracy ratings to descriptions of their personality that supposedly are tailored specifically for them, but are in fact vague and general enough to apply to a wide range of people. This effect can provide a partial explanation for the widespread acceptance of some beliefs and practices, such as astrology, fortune telling, and some types of personality tests.
On Wikipedia, Cultural Patrimony, and Historiography | booktwo.org. (via)
This particular book—or rather, set of books—is every edit made to a single Wikipedia article, The Iraq War, during the five years between the article’s inception in December 2004 and November 2009, a total of 12,000 changes and almost 7,000 pages.
Ars longa, vita brevis, occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile.
Hippocrates. We know it best as the phrase “life is short”, but I didn’t know that was shortened from a longer, more interesting line: “Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment fallible, judgment difficult.” Ars longa, vita brevis – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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