DARK SIDE OF THE LENS (by Astray Films)
via @tylergalpin
When Shortening “Synchronize,” Best Leave Off the “h” There you have it.
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The second sound represented by ch is [k]. This spelling applies to words from the Greek, words like synchronize. However, the trouble with shortening the Greek word synchronize to synch is that the overwhelming (and pattern-forming) majority of one-syllable English words ending in ch are pronounced with the first sound of ch: each, itch, beach, coach, fetch, march, mulch, peach, porch, which. etc.
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What makes Steve’s methodology different from everyone else’s is that he always believed the most important decisions you make are not the things you do – but the things that you decide not to do. He’s a minimalist.
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Sure, sometimes bad things happen, and it’s not your fault. But many of you — and you know who you are — are experiencing economic problems because you were pretending to be rich.
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Photo from my trip around the WA Peninsula yesterday with my Grandfather and Wife. (by Ben Brooks)
See the rest here.
Don’t Mind the Gap, or the Square
The shaded square on the corner doesn’t help at all either — I’m not one to critique something by saying it looks as if it were done in Microsoft Word but this one is just too unsophisticated to warrant anything more than that.
Tennessee County’s Subscription-Based Firefighters Watch As Family Home Burns Down
Oh that Mayor is Sooo getting re-elected.
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The homeowner, Gene Cranick, said he offered to pay whatever it would take for firefighters to put out the flames, but was told it was too late. They wouldn’t do anything to stop his house from burning. Each year, Obion County residents must pay $75 if they want fire protection from the city of South Fulton. But the Cranicks did not pay. The mayor said if homeowners don’t pay, they’re out of luck. […]
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This is perhaps one of my newest favorite Tumblr blogs. Be sure to click on ‘That Map’ feature - great photos too.
The Oatmeal while being a great web comic of sorts is also very good at being the grammar police. Funny stuff.
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I realized that these people may not have gone to Harvard, may not live in a $10 million dollar house, may not have invented a revolutionary technology, but they were still entitled to their perspective on life. And my opinion on what they should or should not believe is irrelevant.
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Where human lives are concerned, time is always short: yet the world has witnessed the vast resources that governments can draw upon to rescue financial institutions deemed “too big to fail”. Surely the integral human development of the world’s peoples is no less important: here is an enterprise, worthy of the world’s attention, that is truly “too big to fail”.
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