Dec
31
2011

URLs du Jour

2011-12-31

  • At McSweeney's, Greg and Teddy Wayne present their New Year's Resolutions:
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    Get into jazz

    Usually I don't quote entire articles, but…

  • Darnit, I really thought Russell and Katy had a shot at lifetime bliss. Looks as if it was more like 400 days.

  • My new hope: Zooey and Joseph:

    Hey, they're good! One of my Christmas gifts was a various-artists collection of Buddy Holly covers, Listen To Me. Ms. Deschanel sings "It's So Easy" and does a fine job.

  • At Language Log, Mark Liberman discourses on Hashtags' mission creep. An interesting topic, because I believe I saw Hashtag Mission Creep open for Big Audio Dynamite in '87.

  • A new attempt at calendar reform is the Hanke-Henry Permanent Calendar. 364 days per year, 52 weeks of seven days each. 12 months of 30 or 31 days each. Every five or six years an "Extra" week is celebrated, not part of any month.

    Since 364 == 52 x 7, a given date falls on the same day-of-week every year. January 1 is always Sunday.

    Kids with birthdays in the Extra week? They would age very slowly, even slower than people born on February 29 do now. Easter, since it's based on a lunar calendar, would still bounce around.

    Hanke and Henry also propose doing away with time zones and Daylight Saving Time. Everyone's on UTC, Zulu, Greenwich Mean Time. This is something Pun Salad has advocated before, and it's nice to see it getting attention.


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