jimkogs
Re:Sergey Brin gives $500,000 to help Wikipedia
on Friday November 18, 2011 @02:39PM (#3253059)
Never.
Re:US Bill Creating the Great Firewall of America
on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @11:54AM (#3238904)
Is it really sad? Corporations wield a lot of power; that's why we built them. What would be sad is if they fail to stand up for our interests.
And then we might have to do something about it.
Re:Think twice about that F-bomb in your next talk
on Tuesday November 08, 2011 @09:19PM (#3213938)
Presenting _is_ choosing to change one's vocabulary and speech habits, in order to bond with the audience. It's a matter of how good one is that determines whether a "fuck" is a fuck-up or a fuck-yes.
[eww, that parallelism felt forced, but I can't resist.]
Re:Think twice about that F-bomb in your next talk
on Tuesday November 08, 2011 @07:12PM (#3213559)
I think one of the reasons that the author misses is that, as used by Zach Holman, 'fuck' levels the field between presenter and audience. "I'm not so important that I can't swear." It can be arrogant or overly formal to embrace how "gorgeous" your slides are, to emphasize how "gifted" you are at presenting. Instead, it emphasizes the fuckhead in all of us; the flaws, in order to say unequivocally "Yeah I'm an asshole sometimes, but here's what I think and I think it's worth hearing: I hope you do too."