Day: June 9, 2010

June 9th

No sooner had I woken up this morning than I sprained my ankle. I’m still not quite sure how I did it, or even if a sprain’s really what it was, since I was pretty much fine by the time I got to work. But I was a little iffy on my right foot for awhile there, unable to put all of my weight on it.

Other than that, it was just a cold(er) and rainy day here.

Wednesday various

  • Stieg Larsson is turning out to be an incredibly prolific dead man.
  • Scientists have created software that can recognize sarcasm. Now if we could just figure out a way to transfer that ability to more people… [via]

  • Whatever your feelings about deaf culture and cochlear implants — personally, I sympathize, but I still believe deafness is a disability — it’s hard not to be a little moved by this video of an eight-month-old deaf baby hearing sound for the first time. [via]
    • And that child later would grow up to be…Iron Baby.
  • And finally, Lorne Michaels on being Canadian and comedic [via]:

    “I think that Canadians have an incredible reverence for authority and regard for authority, and I think one of the healthy ways that it’s challenged is through questioning it, through the polite hostility of comedy. It’s allowed. It’s not encouraged, but it’s definitely allowed, and you stand very little chance of being shot.”