MachineMachine /stream - tagged with word https://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss LifePress therourke@gmail.com <![CDATA[It took 2 years to build this functioning word processor in Minecraft]]> http://www.dailydot.com/geek/word-processor-built-in-minecraft/?fb=dd

If it exists in the real world, you can be someone has figured out a way to build it in Minecraft. A Minecraft builder has created a word processor, complete with keyboard and monitor, entirely in the game. And it isn't just for show.

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Fri, 09 Jan 2015 02:46:05 -0800 http://www.dailydot.com/geek/word-processor-built-in-minecraft/?fb=dd
<![CDATA[Otherkin]]> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otherkin

Otherkin are a community of people who see themselves as partially or entirely non-human. They contend that they are, in spirit if not in body,[2] not human. This is explained by some members of the otherkin community as possible through reincarnation, having a nonhuman soul, ancestry, or symbolic metaphor.[1] Scholarship has framed this claim as religious because it is frequently supported by a framework of metaphysical beliefs.[3] Not all otherkin necessarily share these beliefs; some may simply prefer to identify as non-human.

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Wed, 01 May 2013 14:02:59 -0700 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otherkin
<![CDATA[Profanity]]> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profanity

The original meaning of the adjective profane (Latin: "in front of", "outside the temple") referred to items not belonging to the church, e.g. "The fort is the oldest profane building in the town, but the local monastery is older, and is the oldest building," or "besides designing churches, he also designed many profane buildings".

As a result, "profane" and "profanity" has therefore come to describe a word, expression, gesture, or other social behavior which is socially constructed or interpreted as insulting, rudeness, vulgarism, desecrating, or showing disrespect. Other words commonly used to describe profane language or its use include: cuss, curse, pejorative language, swearing, expletive, oath, bad word, dirty word, strong language, irreverent language, obscenity language, choice words, blasphemy language, foul language, and bad or adult language. In many cultures it is less profane for an adult to curse than it is for a child, who may be reprimanded for cursing.

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Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:12:00 -0800 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profanity
<![CDATA[Petrichor]]> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrichor

Petrichor (pronounced /ˈpɛtrɨkər/; from Greek petros "stone" + ichor "the fluid that is supposed to flow in the veins of the gods in Greek mythology") is the name of the scent of rain on dry earth.

The term was coined in 1964 by two Australian researchers, Bear and Thomas, for an article in the journal Nature.[1] In the article, the authors describe how the smell derives from an oil exuded by certain plants during dry periods, whereupon it is adsorbed by clay-based soils and rocks. During rain, the oil is released into the air along with another compound, geosmin, producing the distinctive scent. In a follow-up paper, Bear and Thomas (1965) showed that the oil retards seed germination and early plant growth.[2]

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Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:36:00 -0700 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrichor