Mark Liberman at* Language Log takes the scientific props away from the story that cows have accents, including quoting a testimony from John Wells, the linguist in question (and one of ours). I particularly like Professor Wells’s complaint about a…
Cows have accents
The BBC reports that researchers have found that cows have regional accents. Apparently birds do as well, although some farmers suggest a human cause that wouldn’t be appropriate for birds: Farmer Lloyd Green, from Glastonbury, said: “I spend a lot…
Aurlog left out again
Aurlog has been left out of the Time Magazine 50 coolest websites again. I think it is because of Time’s American bias. Out of the fifty, I think I’ve only visited Myspace and YouTube. That’s how cool I am.
Big Brother RSS feed yet again again
A little late as the final is this Friday, but I ought to mention that I noticed a week or two ago that the Big Brother site now has an RSS feed, part of a family of Channel 4 RSS…
Worldcat now on the web
OCLC have now put WorldCat (1.3 billion items in more than 10,000 libraries worldwide properly on the internet (rather than through Google or some other means). It says Beta although I don’t know if this is a proper beta, although…
The value of CILIP
In lieu of a proper post, I would like to point you in the direction of a post on Ian Snowley’s weblog from April about the Value of CILIP on which we had a short exchange of comments. Ian Snowley…
New cow game: Cow Tipping
John Phethean of Pave Graphics recently emailed me about a whack-a-rat style Flash game he has written for the A-Coo-Stik site. The game is Cow Tipping and is very hard, so far as I’ve tried it. I’ve added it to…