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flibbertigibbet

dailymeh:

flibbertigibbet

Here’s an f-word for you, as far as I can tell not noted here or here (does that mean everyone knows it already?).

flibbertigibbet • noun • a silly, flighty, or scatterbrained person, especially a pert young woman with such qualities.

I knew that word, but I always used it in an equal-opportunities manner (often aimed at myself) rather than at “pert young women”.

Here’s another f-word I’m fond of:

flounce • noun [intrans] • move with exaggerated motions : she flounced around, playing the tart and flirting.

The British Junk Food Report

rentzsch wrote an interesting post on some of the junk food he tried while in the UK for NSConference:

The absolute most-important thing for a U.S.-based traveler to the U.K. is knowing what junk food you should load up on while there. Here’s our report:

• Kit Kat Chunky: DON’T BUY. There are far better things to spend 260 (!) calories on.

Really? I love Kit Kat Chunky, although I have a particularly soft spot for the allegedly limited edition Caramel variant. Maybe I’m just dull, or perhaps the mix of biscuit and chocolate is just more my sort of thing.

Wispa: BUY. This was the least-interesting bar to me, but came up the biggest winner.

Its very concept didn’t appeal to me: an “aerated” chocolate bar. More than anything, it seemed like a hack to give you less chocolate for the same price.

If you try only one chocolate bar while in the UK, I recommend Wispa.

Wispa has a competitor, Aero, which is more air, less chocolate. It also comes in a mint version. Personally I find them a bit too light, but occasionally they’re right.

• Wheatabix: BUY. Apparently these are State-side, but I never noticed or tried them until I arrived in London. They’re like a fine-grained Shredded Wheat that dissolves much more rapidly in milk. Yummy, if you’re the kind who likes soggy shredded wheat (I do).

Minor correction: the product is called Weetabix. I don’t eat breakfast cereals, though, so I have no other comment.

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Birtspeak 2.0

nevali:

The BBC should also make a step-change towards simplicity in its operations and structure, dismantling the remaining elements of its traditional hierarchy and replacing them with a flatter, more dynamic and flexible structure that reflects the nature of the BBC’s new challenges: wholly focused on serving the public with fewer management layers; better team-working and pan-BBC collaboration; and stronger performance management.

— BBC Strategy Review, March 2010

Sigh.

Names

Writing about the Toshiba TG01 reminded me of this post by mrgan:

Product names currently topping Engadget’s feed: (these are all real and not particularly cherry-picked)

• Kula TV PMP
• Optio I-10
• Gateway EC14D
• Alienware M11x
• Projectiondesign Remote Light Source
• DMC-ZS7 (Or is it 7SZ? Or SZ7? Or Z7S?)
• MvixUSA Ultio Pro
• Moto CLIQ
• OLPC XO
• Mustek MER-6T

I like “iPad”.

A Manifesto.

unlinkyourfeeds:

You need to stop automatically dumping your feeds from one account into another.

Look, I know it’s tempting. New service, not sure how you’ll keep up with the ever demanding maw and there’s the “import your content” button, right there in the sign-up process. A quick trip through a login screen or an OAuth link and there you are: All your stuff automatically aggregated into a new one-stop-shop of the genius things that pop out of your head

Look, just go and read the original, ok? Ta.