<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	>

<channel>
	<title>Logomacy</title>
	<atom:link href="http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress</link>
	<description>Between logomachy and logomancy . . .</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:03:51 +0000</pubDate>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1</generator>
	<language>en</language>
			<item>
		<title>An Important Safety Tip</title>
		<link>http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2008/06/17/an-important-safety-tip/</link>
		<comments>http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2008/06/17/an-important-safety-tip/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:03:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[admin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2008/06/17/an-important-safety-tip/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[

Who are the aggressive drivers?



 Watch out for cars with bumper stickers. 
 That&#8217;s the surprising conclusion of a recent study by Colorado State University social psychologist William Szlemko. Drivers of cars with bumper stickers, window decals, personalized license plates and other &#34;territorial markers&#34; not only get mad when someone cuts in their lane or [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2008/06/17/an-important-safety-tip/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Microsoft, sucking by design</title>
		<link>http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2008/06/10/microsoft-sucking-by-design/</link>
		<comments>http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2008/06/10/microsoft-sucking-by-design/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 01:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[software]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2008/06/10/microsoft-sucking-by-design/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[

PC World - Business Center: Vista Security Is Annoying by Design


Ars picked up this tidbit at the recent RSA 2008 security conference in San Francisco, where David Cross, Microsoft&#8217;s product unit manager for Windows security, discussed the company&#8217;s security directions post-Vista. &#34;The reason we put UAC into the platform was to annoy users. I&#8217;m serious,&#34; [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2008/06/10/microsoft-sucking-by-design/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Hopefully, this will put the issue to rest</title>
		<link>http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2008/06/03/hopefully-this-will-put-the-issue-to-rest/</link>
		<comments>http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2008/06/03/hopefully-this-will-put-the-issue-to-rest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:37:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Linguistics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[admin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2008/06/03/hopefully-this-will-put-the-issue-to-rest/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[

Language Log » Advice from numbers


So we can quantify Arnold&#8217;s surmise. In spoken English, even in fairly formal settings, hopefully is not  ambiguous, because it&#8217;s essentially never used as a manner adverb. In written English non-fiction, the manner-adverbial use is well below 10%, and probably below 5% in most genres. In fiction, the manner-adverbial [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2008/06/03/hopefully-this-will-put-the-issue-to-rest/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>How Dumb Is That?</title>
		<link>http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2008/06/02/how-dumb-is-that/</link>
		<comments>http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2008/06/02/how-dumb-is-that/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:17:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Languages]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2008/06/02/how-dumb-is-that/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Prompted by a query by one of my friends as to whether we tended to say &#8220;dumb as a bag of hammers&#8221;, &#8220;dumb as a box of hair&#8221;, or &#8220;dumb as a box of hammers&#8221; I did the following Googling on &#8220;Dumb as a X&#8221;:

Dumb as a * : 502,000
Bag of hammers: 30,700
Box of hair: [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2008/06/02/how-dumb-is-that/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Bookmooch</title>
		<link>http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2008/04/18/bookmooch/</link>
		<comments>http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2008/04/18/bookmooch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2008/04/18/bookmooch/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[

BookMooch: exchange books and trade them, like a book swap or book barter


I&#8217;ve joined Bookmooch, an interesting book-trading social site.  You join, add books you&#8217;re willing to give away to your inventory, and when somebody else wants to &#8220;mooch&#8221; the book you mail it to them (you pay the postage).  Doing so accumulates [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2008/04/18/bookmooch/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Language Myths</title>
		<link>http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2008/04/18/language-myths/</link>
		<comments>http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2008/04/18/language-myths/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:29:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Languages]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Linguistics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2008/04/18/language-myths/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I got this a little while back, and while it was enjoyable enough, I found it a bit repetitive.  If you know anything about linguistics (even as little as I know), there&#8217;s not a lot here that will be new to you&#8230;I&#8217;d guess that you&#8217;d be able to outline the main argument of each [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2008/04/18/language-myths/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>The World&#8217;s Cutest Little Wiki</title>
		<link>http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2008/04/18/the-worlds-cutest-little-wiki/</link>
		<comments>http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2008/04/18/the-worlds-cutest-little-wiki/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:09:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[software]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2008/04/18/the-worlds-cutest-little-wiki/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve started using this for all my personal note-taking projects; the ability to just copy a page and have a new wiki that you can carry around on a thumb drive is nifty^2.


TiddlyWiki - a reusable non-linear personal web notebook 


Welcome to TiddlyWiki, a popular free MicroContent WikiWikiWeb created by JeremyRuston and a busy Community [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2008/04/18/the-worlds-cutest-little-wiki/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>OED CD-Rom on Vista</title>
		<link>http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2008/02/15/oed-cd-rom-on-vista/</link>
		<comments>http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2008/02/15/oed-cd-rom-on-vista/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Languages]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[software]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2008/02/15/oed-cd-rom-on-vista/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I finally got the OED working again on my new machine (which involved sending the original disks back to OUP-US so they would send me the new point release version that works under Vista, because there&#8217;s apparently no patch process).
So, yay.
]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2008/02/15/oed-cd-rom-on-vista/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Statistics and Assumptions</title>
		<link>http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2008/02/12/statistics-and-assumptions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2008/02/12/statistics-and-assumptions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2008/02/12/statistics-and-assumptions/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[EconLog, Alcohol and Non-Linear Dosage Effects, Bryan Caplan: Library of Economics and Liberty  Annotated
tags: statistics
&#160;

Our years overlapped, but when I was an undergrad at Berkeley, I never met Aaron Wildavsky.  My loss.  Here&#8217;s a great passage he wrote (along with Adam Wildavsky) for Henderson&#8217;s encyclopedia:


Another questionable assumption is that cancer causation is [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2008/02/12/statistics-and-assumptions/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Gagarin was not the first cosmonaut</title>
		<link>http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2008/02/02/gagarin-was-not-the-first-cosmonaut/</link>
		<comments>http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2008/02/02/gagarin-was-not-the-first-cosmonaut/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 15:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2008/02/02/gagarin-was-not-the-first-cosmonaut/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Gagarin was not the first cosmonaut - Pravda.Ru
 As 40 years have passed since Gagarinâ€™s flight, new sensational details of this event were disclosed: Gagarin was not the first man to fly to space. Three Soviet pilots died in attempts to conquer space before Gagarin&#8217;s famous space flight, Mikhail Rudenko, senior engineer-experimenter with Experimental Design [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2008/02/02/gagarin-was-not-the-first-cosmonaut/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Ch-ch-changes</title>
		<link>http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2008/01/24/ch-ch-changes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2008/01/24/ch-ch-changes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[admin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2008/01/24/ch-ch-changes/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Candidates Face the Changes - CollegeHumor video

Another amusing CollegeHumor video.&#160; Make sure you watch to the end
]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2008/01/24/ch-ch-changes/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Browser Security</title>
		<link>http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2008/01/23/browser-security/</link>
		<comments>http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2008/01/23/browser-security/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:53:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[software]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2008/01/23/browser-security/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[NoScript - JavaScript/Java/Flash blocker for a safer Firefox experience! - what is it? - InformAction
I don&#8217;t know if you care, but I&#8217;m reasonably paranoid about computer security, and this Firefox plugin is the best approach I&#8217;ve found.&#160; It defaults to disallowing every form of scripting on any site you visit until you explicitly approve it [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2008/01/23/browser-security/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>I Want Candy!</title>
		<link>http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2008/01/10/i-want-candy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2008/01/10/i-want-candy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:59:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2008/01/10/i-want-candy/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What I Did Over Christmas Vacation Â« Miss(ed) Manners
  &#8216;This past Christmas Vacation my brothers, sister, myself and my girlfriend built a scale replica of the battle of Helms Deep, from the second book of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Two Towers penned by the late, great, J.R.R. Tolkien.&#8217;
The above was actually [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2008/01/10/i-want-candy/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Collaborative Fiction</title>
		<link>http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2008/01/09/collaborative-fiction/</link>
		<comments>http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2008/01/09/collaborative-fiction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 22:05:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2008/01/09/collaborative-fiction/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[protagonize: interactive fiction &#38; collaborative story writing community



Welcome to Protagonize: your destiny awaits.
Protagonize is a creative writing community dedicated to the (nearly) lost art of the\n]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2008/01/09/collaborative-fiction/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Does Steve Martin&#8217;s Mental Grammar Match Yours?</title>
		<link>http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2007/12/19/does-steve-martins-mental-grammar-match-yours/</link>
		<comments>http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2007/12/19/does-steve-martins-mental-grammar-match-yours/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 05:41:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Linguistics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2007/12/19/does-steve-martins-mental-grammar-match-yours/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
Wild and Crazy WTF &#171; Literal-Minded
On the very first page, though, I found this strange passage:

&#8230;the mouth speaking the line, the body delivering the gesture, while the mind looks back, observing, analyzing, judging, worrying, and then deciding when and what to say next.

How could a sentence that sounds so wrong have survived numerous rounds of [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2007/12/19/does-steve-martins-mental-grammar-match-yours/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Most Bizarre Spam Ever</title>
		<link>http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2007/12/18/most-bizarre-spam-ever/</link>
		<comments>http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2007/12/18/most-bizarre-spam-ever/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Languages]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[blasphemy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[humor]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[spam]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2007/12/18/most-bizarre-spam-ever/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I got a spam promising &#8220;Your dick will be like Jesus when you take this medicine!&#8221;
I deleted it without reading the rest, but now I kind of wish I had checked to see whether it was offering to raise it from the dead or if Jesus somehow enjoys a reputation for being well-endowed of [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2007/12/18/most-bizarre-spam-ever/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Books that Changed My Life</title>
		<link>http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2007/12/18/books-that-changed-my-life/</link>
		<comments>http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2007/12/18/books-that-changed-my-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Linguistics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mathematics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2007/12/18/books-that-changed-my-life/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[1. The study game: How to play and win with &#8220;Statement-PIE&#8221;, by Laia Hanau
The book that taught me how to study and take useful notes.  I so wish I ran into it before my Junior year of college.
2. The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
This shook up my thinking about more than just evolution, but [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2007/12/18/books-that-changed-my-life/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>TNR vs Kindle</title>
		<link>http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2007/12/13/tnr-vs-kindle/</link>
		<comments>http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2007/12/13/tnr-vs-kindle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[admin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2007/12/13/tnr-vs-kindle/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[TNR gets taken down a peg by Ann Althouse over the snobbery and sexism that it displays in its anti-Kindle editorial

Althouse: I get pissed off at TNR.


The breathless, Bezos-loving man from Newsweek says that he is reading Boswell&#8217;s Life of Johnson on his iPhone. No, he isn&#8217;t. All reading is not the same. It takes [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2007/12/13/tnr-vs-kindle/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>W00t, there it is!</title>
		<link>http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2007/12/12/w00t-there-it-is/</link>
		<comments>http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2007/12/12/w00t-there-it-is/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:14:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Languages]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2007/12/12/w00t-there-it-is/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The origins of w00t:
The Lexicographer&#8217;s Rules, the weblog of Grant Barrett
The most likely explanation, as is usually the case, is far simpler. Woot is, with some caveats, probably derived from and most likely popularized by the dance catch phrase of 1993, â€œwhoot, there it is!â€ In clubs and on dance floors across the country, in [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2007/12/12/w00t-there-it-is/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Best Attack Ad Ever</title>
		<link>http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2007/12/11/best-attack-ad-ever/</link>
		<comments>http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2007/12/11/best-attack-ad-ever/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 03:25:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2007/12/11/best-attack-ad-ever/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Attack Ad
If this doesn&#8217;t persuade you, nothing will
]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2007/12/11/best-attack-ad-ever/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>
