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Language Log » Google Books: A Metadata Train Wreck
by night.kame
It might seem easy to cherry-pick howlers from a corpus as exensive as this one, but these errors are endemic. Do a search on "internet" in books written before 1950 and Google Scholar turns up 527 hits
On connaissait Gmail la poubelle à courriels, maintenant on a Google Scholar la poubelle à livres.
2008
Téléchargement de photo Flickr : Steamship "California"
by sbrothier
Description: This is an illustration of steamship "California" at sea (1848 1894). Only a few passengers were on board when the ship left New York on October 6, 1848. By the time the ship reached its stop on the Panama's Pacific coast, word had spread of the great new find of gold in California. Over 700 people tried to get passage on the ship in that harbor. The Pacific Mail agent managed to cram 365 people aboard the ship before it set sail for California. The ship and passengers reached San Francisco on February 28, 1949, where all but one member of the crew deserted the ship for the goldfields. The ship was lost in a wreck off the Peruvian coast in 1894.
The Official Netflix Blog: Encoding for streaming
by night.kame
This venture is doomed to fail! WMV? Silverlight? Are you kidding? Isn't it about time for Netflix to grow up?
NBC was paid by Microsoft to use this technology for the '08 Olympics - NBC abandoned the technology as soon as Olympics were over. MLB used Silverlight for the same reason - Microsoft subsidized the project. Did you read the news last week? MLB is abandoning Silverlight for 2009 season in favor of Flash.
Netflix is marrying itself to yet another also-ran technology from Microsoft. This should be a fun train wreck to watch!
C'est le film qu'on attend tous sur Netflix : "Le Silverlight infernal". Si ça pouvait nous emporter un Icaza au passage, ce ne serait pas plus mal.
Daring Fireball Linked List: OpenMoko Usability Train Wreck
by night.kame
De temps en temps, John Gruber est pathétique.
dive site directory
by rmaltete
Scuba diving information and diving reviews on dive sites and countries all over the world including the Caribbean, Canary islands, Fiji, Indonesia, Malta, New Zealand, USA, Australia the UK and the Red Sea.
Dive site directory was set up to give divers easy access to diving information on dive sites all over the world, with information collated from contributions by the diving community. Our information includes overviews for over 49 countries worldwide, spans over 936 separate dive sites and includes dive site maps for each location, photos, and even diving videos and wreck illustrations!
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2007
Coffee and caffeine addiction
by jcosmo77
(via)
With more and more people in offices now a days, coffee inside these offices has become, sadly, almost mandatory. A cup of coffee seems to stimulate your senses, but did you know that the regular in-take of caffeine can leave you wired and a complete wreck. Why? It’s because coffee (with caffeine) will stimulate the central nervous system of your body and will increase the stress hormones in your blood.
2006
Corey Haim at Fan Convention in Chicago
by evilmonkeypaw
Corey Haim is a walking train wreck and completely clueless.
Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning
by gilles@reseau2000.net
& 1 other
Star Wreck is a feature-length science fiction parody made in Finland. The film took seven years to make, but in the end we had a film with amazing special effects, action and lots of dark humor. Go and download the movie, it's free. If you like the film,
2005
The Daily News: Ship’s secrets up for grabs
by multilinko
the Fantome was loaded with loot from the White House, which British troops burned in August 1814. The ship was heading home to Halifax with a convoy when it lost its way in a vicious storm.
No survivors
With untold treasures, Fantome smashed into shoals and sank off Prospect on Nov. 24, 1814.
The wreck was left undisturbed for political reasons. The event coincided with the end of the war, and the two nations wanted to move on.
“Obviously, this was a very touchy subject at the time, so no one really said any more about it,” Chisholm said.
Jagged rocks kept excavators away for nearly 200 years. It’s only recently that the technology has allowed anyone to take a look.
Wrecked Exotics - Car Crash Picture, Exotic Cars, car wreck, crash test, car crash photo, car wreck picture, car crash test, picture of car crash, car crash pic,
by plooki
& 2 others
Welcome to the internet's largest collection of exotic car crash photos.
JAMES CARROLL: Train wreck of an election
by mikepower
There is only one way in which the grand claims made by Washington for the weekend voting will be true -- and that is if the elections empower an Iraqi government that moves quickly to repudiate Washington.
2004
Star Wreck
by relax
& 1 other
An epic film about the emperor of the world in the far reaches of the galaxy.
2003
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