{"id":406,"date":"2006-12-09T09:06:46","date_gmt":"2006-12-09T09:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=406"},"modified":"2006-12-09T09:06:46","modified_gmt":"2006-12-09T09:06:46","slug":"department-of-tangled-webs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=406","title":{"rendered":"Department of Tangled Webs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes it’s good to savor the branching pathways that one follows while scanning the day’s blogs. Today’s case in point is a Language Log posting on Words of the Year: Another year of truthiness<\/a>, which notes that “Webster’s New World College Dictionary went with Crackberry<\/a>…”, a term that showed up in a link I harvested and delicious’d<\/a> yesterday. Sez the Webster’s story:<\/p>\n

Whether on BlackBerries — the PDA’s that spawned this latest appellation — or cellphones, or other handheld devices, people hunched over these tools are a common sight. That devout-looking hunch itself, note Webster’s New World editors, is called the Crackberry prayer, homage to this latest obsession…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I was reminded of the existence of a Japanese term for those who live this life, and a quick Google search<\/a> retrieved oyayubizoku<\/i><\/b>, via wordspy.com<\/a>. I then remembered that I’d pointed to this a couple of years ago, and another quick resort to blessed Google<\/a> retrieved a page summarizing some investigations on Electronic East Asia<\/a> from mid-November 2004 (a lot of the links are 404 now…). And at the bottom of that page are links to two novel things I was playing with at that time: a first podcast On Musical Variety<\/a> (20+ minutes, a pilot for the Cross-Cultural Studies in Music<\/a> course I taught in Winter 2005) and a screencast on de.licio.us<\/a> [alas, hafta use IE to view it] when it was a new service that most of my colleagues didn’t know about.
\n…and that all connects somehow to this Gem from the Past, christened “Bad Hair Derby 1966”:
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Sometimes it’s good to savor the branching pathways that one follows while scanning the day’s blogs. Today’s case in point is a Language Log posting on Words of the Year: Another year of truthiness, which notes that “Webster’s New World College Dictionary went with Crackberry…”, a term that showed up in a link I harvested […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}