The Simpsons has used and coined many neologisms for humorous effect, many of which are only used once. The most famous example is Homer Simpson's signature annoyed grunt, "D'oh!".

I love to find obscure web series, like Where are the Jonses?, an obscure British show that no one is watching.

The "Open Stack" refers to a set of technologies that work together to make it easier for web developers and users to manage access to user data across the Web. The Open Stack looks like this:

One of the biggest secrets of successful web sites is that they Design for Scent

Xmas morning is the only time that London is (almost) empty of humans – so a morning spent cycling around town taking photos.

"However, we also wouldn't be surprised if the record labels decided to create their own joint venture, where revenue sharing wouldn't be an issue, but finding an audience might prove to be a problem."

some answers to the question of what is there beyond truth–making of value for humanists

It is quite true that the term empathy, when introduced into the English dictionary in 1912, was modeled on the word sympathy, but there are significant distinctions in the meaning of the two words, as will emerge shortly.

The term empathy originated in aesthetics, the science of perception.22 Rather than a strict translation, “empathy” is a rendering into English of the German word Einfühling, coined by Theodor Lipps in 1885

the paradoxical nature of modern attention

She was responsible for introducing the concept of empathy (Einfühling) into the English language. Empathy was a key concept in Lee's psychological aesthetics which she developed on the basis of prior work by Theodor Lipps. Her response to aesthetics interpreted art as a mental and corporeal experience. This was a significant contribution to the philosophy of art which has been largely neglected.

The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth – it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true

For instance, a professional interrogator is much more likely to get a confession when he or she can empathize with the suspect's point of view (as disturbing as it sounds).

It's not that online advertising will supplant traditional media. It won't. But a new and different ad equilibrium will emerge from the coming economic recovery—and it will represent a radical shift from anything we've known before.

You allow us to twitter in your name.

When Heidi Dangelmaier created her all-girl branding firm, 3iying, she couldn't have imagined the controversy that would ensue.

Overshare (verb): to divulge excessive personal information, as in a blog or broadcast interview, prompting reactions ranging from alarmed discomfort to approval.

Now is the time for faster horses. (Mind you – define a horse in this day an age and you'll be here till, the faster, cows come home)

Free tool to convert photos into Polaroids. Sweet.

It is sometimes suggested that the initiative was a deliberate attempt to flush out dissidents by encouraging them to show themselves as critical of the regime. Whether or not it was a deliberate trap isn't clear but it is the case that many of those who put forward views that were unwelcome to Mao were executed.

Pope Benedict XVI warned that gender theory blurred the distinction between male and female and could thus lead to the "self-destruction" of the human race.

Power to the Pixel video presentations. Lacks depth in the integration between technology development and the use of video by the end user.

The DisCo infrastructure is specifically targeted to the development of systems and services deployed into coalition environments: networks of users and hosts administered by multiple authorities with changing trust relationships.

How do we get these folks paid? Well, at its heart, VODO comprises a payment system that uses the SHA1 hashes rooted in Torrent files.

Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger has predicted that a number of cities in the UK could be left without their own newspaper as recession looms.

What do we know now about the "architecture of participation" (to borrow Kevin O'Reilly's formulation) that we didn't know a year ago?

Helvetireader is a userscript that pares down Google Reader to what I consider to be the essentials. In particular, it's made for looking at just unread feeds in the expanded view

But Green noted that despite issues faced by the medium, the network TV environment tends to generate better engagement metrics overall. More importantly, she said, clients should "buy programs, not distribution outlets."

Sell the building – live modestly like any sane person. 50m cut? Hang on – that's the same amount promised to 4ip. Utterly stoopid.

As Lord Carter puts it: “We need to nurture those parts of the economy that can generate the growth potential and jobs that we have got used to from the financial services sector.”

The Government is considering four main options: privatising Four; sanctioning a merger with Channel Five; giving the organisation greater public subsidy; and a commercial arrangement with BBC Worldwide, Auntie's highly successful commercial subsidiary which sells programmes and spin-offs abroad.

Oh my. All the Creative Commons support has been lost with the new site, along with a community support mechanism and asset sharing – the single most important aspect for a web service.
The whole purpose of Channel 4 is to invigorate and support the creative communities of the UK; FourDocs has turned it’s back on all this in favour for a Corporate Sponsor and top down editorial with carrot shaking to acquire more 3 minute wonders for TV.
I wish there was as much creative thinking in the running of the site as there is in the people who kindly GIVE you their art to talk about – which you profit upon – way more than the cash bursaries you offer to the lucky few.
Sorry, but you’ve lost out on a great opportunity, and possibly, a wider, richer thinking audience.
(My comment, which they will moderate before publishing, shessh..)

New advertisement for MINI uses augmented reality (AR) technology to create a truly interactive media piece out of a 2-dimensional magazine ad.

Here's our countdown of what rocked our world in 2008 — and what will change yours in 2009 and beyond.

But, you’d start to see that almost every character you meet ends up having some effect on at least a handful of other characters — even if they never knew the others existed. The decisions that people make early in the season have resonance throughout the story that plays out in unexpected ways. And the change that describes the generic arc of that first season (Antihero cops try to take down an antihero Baltimore drug crew) ends up telling a much deeper story than any typical police procedural that I’m familiar with.

[W]e are not selling hope, or audience gratification, or cheap victories with this show. The Wire is making an argument about what institutions—bureaucracies, criminal enterprises, the cultures of addiction, raw capitalism even—do to individuals. It is not designed purely as an entertainment. It is, I'm afraid, a somewhat angry show."[47]

Because the truth does not denote a reality nor an ideology a faith. Trading beliefs removes an individuals faith; the pursuit of freedom is a run from fear. Baiting the BBC is a run from fear.

"We're in business for profit, so ultimately we'll need to turn Fat Pig into a profit-making resource," he says. "Once we get a profitable business, we'll probably sell it off."

If you’re not already familiar with machine tags the easiest way to think of them is being like a plain old tag but with a special syntax that allows users to define additional structured data about that tag.

Nice to see zeroinfluence and powazek on the same page. Powazek is a hero of mine. (He the one who coined 'Authentic Media' and it always makes agnecy folk go pale in the face. Rawk on!)

The BBC, ITV and BT are to work together to bring on-demand content delivered to TVs into the mainstream, via a new kind of set-top box.

behind the scenes look into Mad Men on Twitter

LOL. This is Carling then. BMB bought me in to discuss. I introduced them to Henry Normal – who came up with the Quantum Leap idea with me. Holycow was right – don't trust BMB.

so, not open source then. ffs.