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- adjective Having real
substance ;apposite ,pertinent . - adjective Having a
point ; notpointless .
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Comments every so often it occurs to me that i want to record all the books i read with a few lines sam-summary, but i have not yet done this. have you started already? will you use blog to do it then? hmm ... intriguing. i am inspired to begin using my blog for more pointful ends, not just for spewing vast quantities of inanity across the blogosphere. yes, "pointful" is a word, bizatch. and i might also add that spewing inanity certainly has a time and place.
Oh And ... 2007
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Drama, Movie Trailers, Kate-Winslet, Leonardo-DiCaprio, Revolutionary-Road, Sam-Mendes ann pointless to you!! very pointful to me!!!
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At no point in the recording does it tell me that my flight and all Continental flights out of Newark HAVE BEEN ACTUALLY CANCELLED so thanks for that pointful bulletin, guys.
All Aboard the Failbus yuki_onna 2010
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And the small post on accessibility has kind of turned into a state of the genre thing, and is a thousand words long, with digressions and rambling, which I'm not at all certain is pointful because the state of the industry now is actually a year or two old (the consequence of lead-times, among other things).
Is it just me? msagara 2006
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Up until this point, I've been hiding behind meaningful, pointful group blogs that are about something.
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Up until this point, I've been hiding behind meaningful, pointful group blogs that are about something.
SeeLight: 2006
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And they are arguably much more pointful than the sorts which are not.
Johann Gottfried von Herder Forster, Michael 2007
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Asking it to explain its motives roughly as pointful as negotiating with an ant colony to get it to abandon your kitchen.
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Asking it to explain its motives roughly as pointful as negotiating with an ant colony to get it to abandon your kitchen.
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Good history of Yahoo's acquisition of Webrings. com and their total failure to do anything clueful or pointful with the community-building code once they owned it.
Boing Boing: December 2, 2001 - December 8, 2001 Archives 2001
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