Tag Archives: technology

Texting in Welsh

Friday, August 21st, 2009

I found this in one of my own open browser tabs.
The UK mobile (AmE: cell) phone comparison site right mobilephone has a short English-Welsh phrasebook for what they say are the 10 most common text message (AmE: SMS) abbreviations in use. Useful if you’re learning Welsh.
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Quote of the day: Polaroid ad on technology

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

From a 1972 marketing film for the Polaroid SX-70 camera. The promotional video was made by Charles and Ray Eames:

you can look at technology as a living tree: the trunk bearing branches, the branches leafing out. or you can see it as a net: each knot tying up threads from many sides. but the human [...]

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