Contrary to the belief of many, "npm" is not in fact an abbreviation for "Node Package Manager". It is a recursive bacronymic abbreviation for "npm is not an acronym". (If it was "ninaa", then it would be an acronym, and thus incorrectly named.)
ETAOIN SHRDLU is a nonsense phrase that sometimes appeared in print in the days of "hot type" publishing because of a custom of Linotype machine operators. It appeared frequently enough that it became part of the lore of newspapers.
Hey marky, tempted as I am to pretend that list deletion has been there all along and that you are in fact retarded, I'll tell you the truth: I just rolled it out today (and you're not retarded). Sorry for the inconvenience. Here's where you'll find it: http://cl.ly/DPgX
In other news, I ended up building that rhyming webservice you were asking for a while back. Check it out at http://arpabet.heroku.com/
“Zany is not what we need in a president.” - Mitt Romney, talking about Newt Gingrich.
“Zany is great in a campaign. It’s great on talk radio. It’s great in print, it makes for fun reading,” Mr. Romney told The New York Times. “But in terms of a president, we need a leader, and a leader needs to be someone who can bring Americans together.”
kumanan brought it to my attention that the palindrome code was not ignoring spaces, so I fixed it. You'll be seeing "And it's a palindrome" on multi-word palindrome pages by the end of the day. In the interim, here's a list to celebrate to new feature: http://www.wordnik.com/lists/semordnilap
“Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.” — Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country, 2005
The misspelling referer originated in the original proposal by computer scientist Phillip Hallam-Baker to incorporate the field into the HTTP specification. The misspelling was set in stone by the time of its incorporation into the standards document Request for Comments (RFC) 1945; document co-author Roy Fielding has remarked that neither "referrer" nor the misspelling "referer" were recognized by the standard Unix spell checker of the period. "Referer" has since become a widely used spelling in the industry when discussing HTTP referrers; usage of the misspelling is not universal, though, as the correct spelling of "referrer" is used in some web specifications such as the Document Object Model.
Hey insiders, I've rewritten the comments section from the ground up, so you should be able to CRUD with ease now. The new code is much cleaner, and the new commenting features will soon be making their way into the rest of the site. As always, be vocal if you have any trouble.
In computer programming, create, read, update and delete (CRUD) are the four basic functions of persistent storage. It is sometimes used to describe user interface conventions that facilitate viewing, searching, and changing information; often using computer-based forms and reports. The term was likely first popularized by James Martin in a 1983 book titled "Managing the Data-base Environment".
"The Diacritize API allows you to add the power of Google Tashkeel to your website. The API can be used to add diacritical marks to text. These marks are not necessary, but can assist non-native speakers with pronunciation."
@bilby I agree that the current tag interface is clunky, but it's a step toward a larger (and perhaps radical) goal: When you look up a particular tag, you should have access to lots of information about its life not just as a tag but also as a word. The word is the unit.
We're working to roll out features that let users add their own data for lots of relationship types such as synonyms, antonyms, hypernyms, hyponyms, rhymes, alternative spellings, and so on, giving scope to the otherwise free-form, subjective, and ambiguous approach to taxonomizing that is tagging.
That said, keep the scrutiny coming and bear with us as we improve the new site!
T-Rex: Well if it IS, then it's self-describing, which means autological. And if it ISN'T, then it's autological again too. Huh. If this paradox is supposed to make me trip balls, you should know I've taken the precaution of having them TIGHTLY SECURED.
T-Rex: Well if it IS, then it's self-describing, which means autological. And if it ISN'T, then it's autological again too. Huh. If this paradox is supposed to make me trip balls, you should know I've taken the precaution of having them TIGHTLY SECURED.
"The key abstraction of information in REST is a resource. Any information that can be named can be a resource: a document or image, a temporal service (e.g. "today's weather in Los Angeles"), a collection of other resources, a non-virtual object (e.g. a person), and so on. In other words, any concept that might be the target of an author's hypertext reference must fit within the definition of a resource. A resource is a conceptual mapping to a set of entities, not the entity that corresponds to the mapping at any particular point in time." - Excerpt from Roy Fielding's dissertation on REST
A Requiem or Requiem Mass, also known as Mass for the dead (Latin: Missa pro defunctis) or Mass of the dead (Latin: Missa defunctorum), is Mass celebrated for the repose of the soul or souls of one or more deceased persons, using a particular formula of the Roman Missal. It is frequently, but not necessarily, celebrated in the context of a funeral.
re: tweets and photos, we hear you. We've architected the new site in a very modular way, one of the motivators being that we want to let users decide what to see and what to hide.
A note about the tweets: As you know they've been displayed on the site for some time now, but in this new release we've added some additional filtering to help eliminate 'lower quality' tweets. Tweets that match any of the following criteria are rejected:
- Tweet text contains links
- Tweet text contains @replies
- Tweet author name contains the current word
Believe it or not this has drastically improved the quality of the tweets we're displaying. But like I said, you'll soon be able to set a user preference to obliterate whatever modules you wish.
In for a penny in for a pound. I may as well "be hung for a sheep as a lamb". If the punishment is the same, then it is worth the risk to commit the offence which brings greatest profit...
Comments by zeke
zeke commented on the word npm
Contrary to the belief of many, "npm" is not in fact an abbreviation for "Node Package Manager". It is a recursive bacronymic abbreviation for "npm is not an acronym". (If it was "ninaa", then it would be an acronym, and thus incorrectly named.)
http://npmjs.org/doc/faq.html
April 4, 2012
zeke commented on the word diresome
I encountered this word in David Mitchell's wonderful novel, Cloud Atlas.
March 3, 2012
zeke commented on the word heckle
two cents
February 24, 2012
zeke commented on the word impactful
If wordnik had a "hate" button, I'd use it on this word.
February 23, 2012
zeke commented on the word jean dimmock
Can someone explain this to me? I'm late to the game here.
February 11, 2012
zeke commented on the word ETAOIN SHRDLU
ETAOIN SHRDLU is a nonsense phrase that sometimes appeared in print in the days of "hot type" publishing because of a custom of Linotype machine operators. It appeared frequently enough that it became part of the lore of newspapers.
February 3, 2012
zeke commented on the word list
Wikipedia's List of lists of lists
February 3, 2012
zeke commented on the word Zeke
Me.
February 1, 2012
zeke commented on the user DeborahB
Welcome, Deborah. Glad to have you. Feel free to ping me if you have any questions: zeke (at) wordnik.com or @zeke on Twitter.
January 23, 2012
zeke commented on the list overused-by-zeke--1
The word "sustainable" is "unsustainable": http://xkcd.com/1007/
January 23, 2012
zeke commented on the list robbed-by-a-fox
What about outfoxed? Too vague?
January 23, 2012
zeke commented on the user feedback
marky we are showing antonyms -- see bad. Is there a specific word for which you were expecting to see antonyms?
January 20, 2012
zeke commented on the user feedback
Bacon ipsum indeed. I generally use hipster ipsum but wanted to mix it up today.
January 17, 2012
zeke commented on the user feedback
Hey marky, tempted as I am to pretend that list deletion has been there all along and that you are in fact retarded, I'll tell you the truth: I just rolled it out today (and you're not retarded). Sorry for the inconvenience. Here's where you'll find it: http://cl.ly/DPgX
In other news, I ended up building that rhyming webservice you were asking for a while back. Check it out at http://arpabet.heroku.com/
January 17, 2012
zeke commented on the word enthusiasma
Portmanteau of enthusiasm and miasma: the suffocating company of someone with too much enthusiasm.
January 16, 2012
zeke commented on the list outcasts
Good call yarb -- I had the same idea as I fell asleep last night. A list of 'former outcasts' is in the works. Stay tuned.
January 13, 2012
zeke commented on the word zany
“Zany is not what we need in a president.” - Mitt Romney, talking about Newt Gingrich.
“Zany is great in a campaign. It’s great on talk radio. It’s great in print, it makes for fun reading,” Mr. Romney told The New York Times. “But in terms of a president, we need a leader, and a leader needs to be someone who can bring Americans together.”
thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com
December 14, 2011
zeke commented on the word planartext
Text that is explicitly not hyper-; non-hypertext.
December 14, 2011
zeke commented on the user colerayne
What up colerayne. Welcome.
December 4, 2011
zeke commented on the word bibliomania
Apparently there's a store called Bibliomania in Oakland: http://www.bibliomania.ws
December 3, 2011
zeke commented on the user ruzuzu
kumanan brought it to my attention that the palindrome code was not ignoring spaces, so I fixed it. You'll be seeing "And it's a palindrome" on multi-word palindrome pages by the end of the day. In the interim, here's a list to celebrate to new feature: http://www.wordnik.com/lists/semordnilap
November 30, 2011
zeke commented on the word semicolon
“Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.” — Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country, 2005
November 18, 2011
zeke commented on the word not like a word
erin likes to make my job hard
November 2, 2011
zeke commented on the word meow
Sound made by a cat
September 28, 2011
zeke commented on the word referer
The misspelling referer originated in the original proposal by computer scientist Phillip Hallam-Baker to incorporate the field into the HTTP specification. The misspelling was set in stone by the time of its incorporation into the standards document Request for Comments (RFC) 1945; document co-author Roy Fielding has remarked that neither "referrer" nor the misspelling "referer" were recognized by the standard Unix spell checker of the period. "Referer" has since become a widely used spelling in the industry when discussing HTTP referrers; usage of the misspelling is not universal, though, as the correct spelling of "referrer" is used in some web specifications such as the Document Object Model.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referrer
August 2, 2011
zeke commented on the word diff cruft
Diff cruft is what happens when a developer commits a change to some code that has trailing whitespace (either tabs or spaces) at the end of a line.
July 31, 2011
zeke commented on the word new interface
Hey insiders, I've rewritten the comments section from the ground up, so you should be able to CRUD with ease now. The new code is much cleaner, and the new commenting features will soon be making their way into the rest of the site. As always, be vocal if you have any trouble.
July 30, 2011
zeke commented on the word CRUD
In computer programming, create, read, update and delete (CRUD) are the four basic functions of persistent storage. It is sometimes used to describe user interface conventions that facilitate viewing, searching, and changing information; often using computer-based forms and reports. The term was likely first popularized by James Martin in a 1983 book titled "Managing the Data-base Environment".
July 30, 2011
zeke commented on the word zinger
A word I randomly looked up to test out the new comments stuff.
July 30, 2011
zeke commented on the word hubbernaut
A github employee.
July 25, 2011
zeke commented on the word promance
A platonic, professional, non-gender-specific flavor of bromance. - http://twitter.com/#!/shanley/status/86893136550436865
July 22, 2011
zeke commented on the word diactrize
"The Diacritize API allows you to add the power of Google Tashkeel to your website. The API can be used to add diacritical marks to text. These marks are not necessary, but can assist non-native speakers with pronunciation."
July 14, 2011
zeke commented on the user feedback
@bilby I agree that the current tag interface is clunky, but it's a step toward a larger (and perhaps radical) goal: When you look up a particular tag, you should have access to lots of information about its life not just as a tag but also as a word. The word is the unit.
We're working to roll out features that let users add their own data for lots of relationship types such as synonyms, antonyms, hypernyms, hyponyms, rhymes, alternative spellings, and so on, giving scope to the otherwise free-form, subjective, and ambiguous approach to taxonomizing that is tagging.
That said, keep the scrutiny coming and bear with us as we improve the new site!
July 14, 2011
zeke commented on the word autological
Utahraptor: So is "heterological" heterological?
T-Rex: Well if it IS, then it's self-describing, which means autological. And if it ISN'T, then it's autological again too. Huh. If this paradox is supposed to make me trip balls, you should know I've taken the precaution of having them TIGHTLY SECURED.
July 13, 2011
zeke commented on the word heterological
Utahraptor: So is "heterological" heterological?
T-Rex: Well if it IS, then it's self-describing, which means autological. And if it ISN'T, then it's autological again too. Huh. If this paradox is supposed to make me trip balls, you should know I've taken the precaution of having them TIGHTLY SECURED.
July 13, 2011
zeke commented on the word blog
Attach a timestamp to a piece of text. Present it in reverse-chronological order.
July 13, 2011
zeke commented on the word resource
"The key abstraction of information in REST is a resource. Any information that can be named can be a resource: a document or image, a temporal service (e.g. "today's weather in Los Angeles"), a collection of other resources, a non-virtual object (e.g. a person), and so on. In other words, any concept that might be the target of an author's hypertext reference must fit within the definition of a resource. A resource is a conceptual mapping to a set of entities, not the entity that corresponds to the mapping at any particular point in time." - Excerpt from Roy Fielding's dissertation on REST
July 13, 2011
zeke commented on the word new interface
Thanks for all the feedback. We are listening.
July 9, 2011
zeke commented on the word requiem
A Requiem or Requiem Mass, also known as Mass for the dead (Latin: Missa pro defunctis) or Mass of the dead (Latin: Missa defunctorum), is Mass celebrated for the repose of the soul or souls of one or more deceased persons, using a particular formula of the Roman Missal. It is frequently, but not necessarily, celebrated in the context of a funeral.
July 9, 2011
zeke commented on the word hecka
“im really just havin hecka convos right now.”
July 9, 2011
zeke commented on the word hecka
“Then she gon say "wow,, east oakland is so big"... lol,, she hecka funny...”
July 9, 2011
zeke commented on the word plussies
People who use Google+
July 6, 2011
zeke commented on the word plussy
A user of Google+
July 6, 2011
zeke commented on the user Prolagus
Thanks for the input; I updated zeke.sikelianos.com
June 27, 2011
zeke commented on the user feedback
re: tweets and photos, we hear you. We've architected the new site in a very modular way, one of the motivators being that we want to let users decide what to see and what to hide.
A note about the tweets: As you know they've been displayed on the site for some time now, but in this new release we've added some additional filtering to help eliminate 'lower quality' tweets. Tweets that match any of the following criteria are rejected:
- Tweet text contains links
- Tweet text contains @replies
- Tweet author name contains the current word
Believe it or not this has drastically improved the quality of the tweets we're displaying. But like I said, you'll soon be able to set a user preference to obliterate whatever modules you wish.
June 20, 2011
zeke commented on the word macron
To type a macron on Max OS X, follow these instructions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Macrons
June 20, 2011
zeke commented on the word hung for a sheep as a lamb
In for a penny in for a pound. I may as well "be hung for a sheep as a lamb". If the punishment is the same, then it is worth the risk to commit the offence which brings greatest profit...
June 20, 2011
zeke commented on the user feedback
@marky I'll trade you a rhyming dictionary for insight into these superior ways to streamline!
June 18, 2011
zeke commented on the word choogala moogala
An Aztecan dish made with mashed beans, bananas, and possom tail. It is typically served with cream and spider monkey juice.
May 14, 2011
zeke commented on the user feedback
@prolagus good idea. We'll roll that into our soon-to-be-revamped twitter results module.
May 3, 2011
zeke commented on the word puberphonia
Puberphonia (also known as mutational falsetto or mutational chink) is the persistence of adolescent voice even after puberty.
April 6, 2011
zeke commented on the word clbuttic
HINT: People who make buttumptions about their regex scripts, will be embarbutted when they repeat this mbuttive mistake.
February 28, 2011
zeke commented on the word ideate
@ecbrenner me too
February 17, 2011
zeke commented on the user ruzuzu
I too am a gull. I thought you were on the wordnik payroll until I got here.. turns out you're a true amateur!
January 19, 2011
zeke commented on the word fidget
I'm happy to see this word has nominal forms.
November 10, 2010
zeke commented on the word glob
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glob_(programming)
November 5, 2010
zeke commented on the word geoscope
verb: To reduce a set of geocoded data to a particular geographic boundary.
noun: A large spherical contraption for displaying imagery; conceived by Buckminster Fuller, though never realized.
November 3, 2010
zeke commented on the list x-marks-the-spot
A bunch more can be found at logophilia.org/words?q=*x
October 26, 2010
zeke commented on the list raise-high-the-roof-beam--carpenters
I'm only 45 pages in or so.. I haven't reached technicolor bootees yet!
June 24, 2010
zeke commented on the list colors--7
@mollusque I guess you're right! I nixed it.
May 19, 2010
zeke commented on the word pobresor
A poor student or professor; pobre + profesor
February 18, 2010
zeke commented on the word estudiambre
A poor student: estudiante + hambre
February 18, 2010
zeke commented on the word tranquis
A shortened version of the adjective tranquilo, meaning relaxed, low-key, mellow.
February 18, 2010
zeke commented on the list alphaliterals
Good stuff. I put together a little script and found a few more: github.com/zeke/alphaliterals
February 6, 2010