Lost Generation

By Johnathan Reed
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Yu no them kows from that chikin plac that tel yu to “Eat Mor Chikin?” There’s a groop of peepl in th U.S. hu want us awl tu start speling lik that. Thae want us tu uze simpl wurdz so we awl kan spel betr.

(According to an Associated Press report, supporters say kids would learn English faster and the illiteracy rate would go down. Opponents of the simple word philosophy believe the new spelling system would make things more confusing.)

Abowt using simplr wurds, awl we kan sae iz, “Itz abowt time!”

Don’t laff. Th simpl wurdz moovment goes back to peepl lik Andrew Carnegie and Prezedent Theodore Roosevelt. Thae cuudn’t get it dun, but simpl wurd sooportrz ar stil trieng. (Read the article)

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Think dignity, not cleverness when naming a child
WILLIS WEBB

What’s in a name?

My first name is one you don’t hear every day and, after going through early childhood and puberty, I finally decided it was unique enough that I was proud of it.

Kids will take a name that is a bit different and use some crazy variation on it just to tease and aggravate. There’s one variation on my first name that still lands on the wrong side of me. However, the natural inclination of most youngsters was to make something out of my last name, so “Spider Webb” and “Webfoot” were heard frequently.

My mother always blanched when someone shortened my first name to Will. “I named him Willis, not Will,” she’d admonish. (Read the article)

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Found this on CBS website, linked from WIRED blog.

A Nation Of Potty Mouths

A Brief History Of Swear Words In America

July 23, 2006

(CBS) It all started with “Gone with the Wind” and Rhett’s not-so-fond adieu: “Frankly ,my dear, I don’t give a damn.”

His vulgarity was shocking at the time, but damn, that was nothing compared to what passes for entertainment today, where a movie is named “Meet the Fockers” and every Sunday night we invite “Desperate Housewives” into our homes, comments CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman.

Heck, even our born-again president swears, or did at least once that we know of. (Read the article)

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I found this article on Google Groups.
This is a great article because this is exactly the attitude that people give Web Design. They just assume that it can be done. I Love this analogy!

If Architects Had to Work Like Web Designers

Please design and build me a house. I am not quite sure of what I need, so you should use your discretion. My house should have somewhere between two and forty-five bedrooms. Just make sure the plans are such that the bedrooms can be easily added or deleted. When you bring the blueprints to me, I will make the final decision of what I want. Also, bring me the cost breakdown for each configuration so that I can arbitrarily pick one. (Read the article)

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