The Los Angeles Times reports, “Google Inc.’s eponymous search engine became a sanctioned part of the English language Thursday, when ‘google’ — with a small ‘g’ — earned an entry among the 165,000 or so terms in the 11th edition of the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary. The definition: ‘to use the Google search engine to obtain [...]
Most of you know that I’ve spent some time reading the books of the famous cognitive linguist, George Lakoff, and that he is all about the metaphors we use to talk about (and think about) our experiences. You may also know that he runs the Rockridge Institute, a “non-profit, non-partisan think tank dedicated to strengthening [...]
December 15, 2004 – 03:52 pm
In 1984, a small group of people in Cupertino, California introduced the world to the computer for the rest of us. They told us that it was “a computer so personable it can practically shake hands.” They told us its name was Macintosh, and that it was just as powerful as all those other [...]
By Kyle
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Posted in Apple
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Also tagged coding, creative_writing, Economics, equal_rights, evolution, gui, ilife, interfaces, metaphor, operating_system, postmodernism
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October 14, 2004 – 02:44 pm
[Originally Posted on the old Fluid Imagination site]
Though George Lakoff attempts to be ideologically impartial throughout most of Moral Politics, he is a confessed liberal who feels there is scientific research to support his politics. The evidence suggests that:
The Nurturant Parent model is superior to the Strict Father model as a method of childrearing.
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