Monday, May 02, 2005

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Okay, I gotta cut the lawn today, before I leave for a week, and the forecast is for AM snow showers?! 7:03:24 AM    comment []

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Thanks to a certain TV show, the phrases "pimp my", "pimp your", and "pimp the" have achieved currency as slang for "customize, often in a flamboyant or ostentatious manner". I read them in the mainstream press all the time these days. For instance, Britney Spears is pregnant--title of the article is "pimp the crib". I'm sorry, but I find this phrase, used as a commonism, appalling. On a similar note, I went bowling the other day. In walks a teenage boy and his girlfriend. He enters "Pimp" as his name, which of course is projected on the overhead screen for all to see. I know, it is a different usage, but I'm pretty sure that the lineage of both can be traced back to "gangster rap" (another case of an inherently pejorative word being used as a badge of honor). 6:52:45 AM    comment []

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Idea for a Variation on Controlling Access to Printer-Friendly Page Versions I'm occasionally seeing sites restrict the "printer friendly" versions of their pages to subscribers. Another idea--which came to me because I thought a site was doing it, though they turned out not to be--would be to stream the printer-friendly version directly to the printer. I.e., when you click the "CLICK HERE TO PRINT" button, instead of rendering the printer-friendly version in a browser window, with the simple, graphic-free printable layout, it would just be materialized and sent straight to the printer.   The point in doing so would be to deny you the benefit of a clean version to link to, or for cut-and-paste emailing. 6:46:02 AM    comment []