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Today’s Rhymes With Orange, with a pun on page: A pun of a type that juxtaposes two strikingly different contexts (here, court life in a monarchy, on the one hand, and the internet, on the other) in...
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Sex sells
… or, at least, attracts readers. From WordPress stats yesterday on my most-viewed postings during the previous week, the top six: agapanthus: 1,019 views The body and its parts: 359 views Pub(l)ic...
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Briefly noted: endorsements for skills or expertise
LinkedIn tells me every so often about endorsements I’ve received for skills or expertise, from friends, colleagues, former students, and readers of my blogs (about 30 of them so far). For: Teaching,...
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Website and blog changes
The world of AZ websites and blogs has altered, and will change further in coming days. Most of these changes are behind the scenes — access to all this material will continue to be possible by...
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On the unicorn watch
The story starts with this cartoon, sent to me by Don Steiny for pretty obvious reasons: (#1) The cartoon is one of several offering, as an explanation for why unicorns went extinct, that Noah took...
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News flash: sex continues to sell
… and the sun continues to rise in the east. Another report on views of this WordPress blog. Last time I checked in, the most-viewed postings were heavily about sex and sexuality, though my...
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E-mail addresses
Over the years, I’ve had a number of Stanford e-mail addresses. For the one I’m now using (the simplest possible), see here. This address replaced a longer one, which I used for some years. The older...
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Back from the dead
A truly dreadful day. To start with, it’s 9/11. Then came the news that my friend and colleague Ivan Sag had died (at 63) yesterday afternoon. (I will post on Language Log on his death.) And then...
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Miscellany for 9/19/13
Twelve items that have come by me recently. 1. Today’s holiday. It’s (International) Talk Like a Pirate day today. Last posting on the holiday on this blog (with links): 9/10/11 “R!”. 2. On the spam...
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Blessed relief
(About life on the net.) Back on September 19th, I wrote: By the end of the day, I will have accumulated 400,000 spam comments on this blog since it started. Meanwhile, spam e-mail has been...
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2013 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 350,000 times in...
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The comments spam report
A periodic report on comments spam on this blog, which has taken an uptick in recent days. In any case, the spam count (since the blog started late in 2008) passed 800,000 this morning and is already...
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Formatting
Another item from Elizabeth Daingerfield Zwicky: the formatting on the English Language and Usage Stack Exchange: (#1) Beige background on the title, conservative, somewhat old-fashioned typeface;...
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Comments puzzle
As the spam comments on this blog rapidly approach the one million mark (since 2008), I’ve been coping with a variety of puzzles, comments that I have to moderate by hand. Most of these are quick...
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Annals of spam comments
Sometime during the night, the register of spam comments on this blog passed the million mark (since 2008). And, of course, continues to climb. I find this mind-boggling, Meanwhile, 8,322 approved...
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Two more on Memorial Day?
Two more cartoons that came in this morning, entertained me, but presented some question as to whether I should in fact post them. They were both of a sort that I have posted about before: a Zippy with...
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Self-awareness and a milestone
Self-aware cartoon characters come up here every so often — most recently, in a Scenes From a Multiverse strip (#2 here). Today’s Zippy brings us to self-aware diners: With this posting, we reach a...
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goldilocksian
Several correspondents have written to compliment me on the content and organization of the “About (academic)” page on my website (here). One went so far as to refer to the goldilocksian mean — not too...
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Three blog notes
On AZBlog, three developments: still more spam comments; revisions of Pages; and the “About (academic)” main Page as the descendant of my old Stanford webpage. The spamvalanche. Every so often, I note...
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Karenispam
A moment out from posting more or less serious things to note this entertaining comment, which was snagged by my WordPress spam filter and turned up at the top of the queue (so I noticed it): [N N...
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