Archive for July, 2007

The Problem With Music - by Steve Albini

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

The Problem With Music - by Steve Albini

I will translate this article. Anybody help?

He is a musician and producer, you might know him as the producer for Nirvana’s album In Utero. But, he is more than that.

I love his way of doing recording engineers and never take the royalty assicated with CD sells since he beleives it’s immoral.

Read him on wikipedia

where to find free music online

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

where to find free music online

goes by the name of John Doe 就是 叫张三的人 的意思

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

goes by the name of John Doe 就是 叫张三的人 的意思

Google Alerts informs me that someone who goes by Streaky has given WordPress MU and Lyceum a spin, and has this to say about them source

他这里用了goes by,比goes by the name还要简便。

这种用法挺普遍也很简单有效。比someone called John doe似乎礼貌一点。有这种差别么?可别信我。我是询问大家!!

问: Merit entries 是什么意思

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

问: Merit entries 是什么意思

Name the Giant Pandas” Activity Results

Winner List

Winner of Best Names Chan Shuk-ying

Winners of Merit Entries Wong Yiu-san Cheung Chun-kit Cheung Siu-ying source

define: merit
any admirable quality or attribute; “work of great merit”
deservingness: the quality of being deserving (e.g., deserving assistance); “there were many children whose deservingness he recognized and rewarded”
deserve: be worthy or deserving; “You deserve a promotion after all the hard work you have done”
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

是入围的意思?肯定不合适。那是entry entires啊。哈哈。

我理解这个是指获奖者不是最好的,但足够好,也能获奖的那种。

谁知道中文对应的是什么。

我刚看到学到这个词。挺喜欢

[funny, pic] i don’t know how to name this post, either

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

i know this photo is old and been floating on the internet from last year/the year before last year?

but you’ve got to give credit to the photographer for his sense of humore

cunt or count

Cunt is an English vulgarism most commonly used in reference to the human vulva or vagina and, more generally, the pubis, from the mons veneris to … http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cunt http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=...

For the curious minds wonder why there’s a “either” in the title.

Project Censored: 每年评出25个当年首审查最严重的新闻

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

Project Censored: 每年评出25个当年首审查最严重的新闻。我这句话说的有问题。这个 the most censored stories 怎么翻译才合适呢?

Project Censored

About Us

Project Censored is a media research group out of Sonoma State University which tracks the news published in independent journals and newsletters. From these, Project Censored compiles an annual list of 25 news stories of social significance that have been overlooked, under-reported or self-censored by the country’s major national news media.

Between 700 and 1000 stories are submitted to Project Censored each year from journalists, scholars, librarians, and concerned citizens around the world. With the help of more than 200 Sonoma State University faculty, students, and community members, Project Censored reviews the story submissions for coverage, content, reliability of sources and national significance. The university community selects 25 stories to submit to the Project Censored panel of judges who then rank them in order of importance. Current or previous national judges include: Noam Chomsky, Susan Faludi, George Gerbner, Sut Jhally , Frances Moore Lappe, Norman Solomon, Michael Parenti, Herbert I. Schiller, Barbara Seaman, Erna Smith, Mike Wallace and Howard Zinn. All 25 stories are featured in the yearbook, Censored: The News That Didn’t Make the News.

http://www.projectcensored.org/about/index.htm

Top 25 censored stories in 2007

看看哪些你有点耳闻哪些消息你根本就没想到过。

shite 其实就是英国人说 shit ;听着更来劲 :)

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

shite 其实就是英国人说 shit ;听着更来劲 :)

shite
a very british and therefore great way of saying shit. shite sounds much more effective than shit http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=...

说起来比shit显得更有效哦,因为是英国味的词么,所以美国人说出来有些“外语的感觉”,所以说着更带劲。

比如我也爱说“shit”而不说“tmd”。其实这点很不好滴~

公司名称中的 AB 是瑞典语 公司 的意思

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

公司名称中的 AB 是瑞典语 公司 的意思

好不容易从wikipedia中找到了ab在公司名字里是瑞典语公司的意思要和英文中的Ltd, Inc差不多 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ab AB有很多种意思,这个隐藏的很深,我上下快速浏览了多遍才发现,不信你们试试。

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aktiebolag

Aktiebolag is the Swedish term for a corporation, i.e. a company that has stocks. When used in company names it is abbreviated AB in Sweden and Ab in Finland.

The Finnish language equivalent is osakeyhtiö, or Oy. The German and Norwegian equivalents would be Aktiengesellschaft (AG) and Aksjeselskap (AS), respectively, which is literally a translation of the Swedish term (or vice versa); the British would be Limited company (Ltd.); the Americans call it corporation (Inc.).

A HKSAR 10th Anniversary gift: A pair of giant pandas

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

SAR stands for Special Administration Region. So HKSAR stands for Hong Kong SAR.

The Government has commenced preparatory work to receive the giant pandas. Following the arrangements in 1999 when An An and Jia Jia were given to Hong Kong, the Government will entrust the care of the new giant pandas to the Ocean Park.

via 香港政府一站通

I love panda~ . The GovHK site has interesting facts about panda and more photos, check them out.

他们两个叫乐乐和盈盈 :)

bad hair day 其实挺常用的。但别随便说人家,不礼貌

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

bad hair day http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=...

A bad hair day is also a day when everything is going bad. It has nothing to do with how one’s hair really is, it’s just that everything is going wrong. The term “bad hair day” derives from how psycho one feels because everything is going all wrong on a particular day!!

第一次听到这个词似乎是在Office Space这部经典电影中。:)可能吧。