"Crash" became hookii (a cow falling over but not dying); "timeout" became a honaama (your fish has got away). "Aspect ratio" became jeendondiral, a rebuke from elders when a fishing net is wrongly woven. In Malawi's Chichewa language, which has 10m speakers, "cached pages" became mfutso wa tsamba, or bits of leftover food.
A look at the localization efforts behind Firefox OS.
These guys know how it's done.
A dancer captured in 3D with a Kinect. Add some Processing, stir until sublime. This is just incredible to watch.
Like watching sand angels in four dimensions.
Dear God, that's certainly possible and the most reasonable thing I've heard yet...
Spoiler: The Bay Area is more expensive than the other most expensive areas by as much as the median house value of non-Bay Area locations.
Excellent look at the copyright system from the perspective of an individual up against small or independent businesses.
These hit pretty close to home; Microsoft Research Silicon Valley and the Exchange Customer Engineering team, consisting of mostly former Outlook.com testers and the team that I was on two weeks ago, are both gone. Some good co-workers are being asked to turn in their badges. I wish them the best of luck.
Why are Russians dying in numbers, and at ages, and of causes never seen in any other country that is not, by any standard definition, at war? In the seventeen years between 1992 and 2009, the Russian population declined by almost seven million people, or nearly 5 percent—a rate of loss unheard of in Europe since World War II.
A Plan: Once heralded as a firm commitment to an event in the future, a plan is now largely considered to be a string of noncommittal text messages leading up to a series of potential, though unlikely, events.
The video is hilariously true.
The question posed by Twitter's announcement is not whether you think it's a good idea for people to see the Foley video. Instead, the relevant question is whether you want Twitter, Facebook and Google executives exercising vast power over what can be seen and read.
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Given the savagery of the Foley video, it's easy in isolation to cheer for its banning on Twitter. But that's always how censorship functions: it invariably starts with the suppression of viewpoints which are so widely hated that the emotional response they produce drowns out any consideration of the principle being endorsed.
Glenn Greenwald on censorship, public vs private enterprise, communication, and platforms vs publishers. Great piece.