stultify

stultify \STUHL-tuh-fahy\ , verb:
1. To render useless or ineffectual; cripple.
2. To cause to appear stupid, inconsistent, or ridiculous.
3. Law To allege or prove insane and so not legally responsible.

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I have mild dyslexia and sometimes transpose letters in a word, even leave some out.

At first I read this word and thought the definition would be "to try to emulate Britney Spears". I had to look at it again and see it was "ST" and not "SL" that started the word.

Come to think of it, she'd fit all three definitions anyway.

perorate

perorate \PUR-uh-rayt\ , intransitive verb:
1. To conclude or sum up a long discourse.
2. To speak or expound at length; to declaim.

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I've been accused of this - in other words - in other forums and msg. boards.

Ricochet

Or, I Could Look in a Mirror

You Should Watch a Comedy

You are a fun loving person who is able to laugh at all aspects of life. Some may think you're light-hearted, but you're also able to be amusingly dark. You can see both the best and worst in people. More importantly, you understand how absurd life can be. You find a well written comedy to be intelligent and even insightful. Anyone can make a good movie, but only a genius can make a hilarious movie.

What Kind of Movie Should You Watch Tonight?

Personas

How does the internet see YOU?

From the website:

Personas is a component of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit, currently on display at the MIT Museum by the Sociable Media Group from the MIT Media Lab. It uses sophisticated natural language processing and the Internet to create a data portrait of one's aggregated online identity. In short, Personas shows you how the Internet sees you.

Enter your name, and Personas scours the web for information and attempts to characterize the person - to fit them to a predetermined set of categories that an algorithmic process created from a massive corpus of data. The computational process is visualized with each stage of the analysis, finally resulting in the presentation of a seemingly authoritative personal profile.

In a world where fortunes are sought through data-mining vast information repositories, the computer is our indispensable but far from infallible assistant. Personas demonstrates the computer's uncanny insights and its inadvertent errors, such as the mischaracterizations caused by the inability to separate data from multiple owners of the same name. It is meant for the viewer to reflect on our current and future world, where digital histories are as important if not more important than oral histories, and computational methods of condensing our digital traces are opaque and socially ignorant.

This is my persona created with my name. Click for larger view.



The problem with "my" persona is that there was nothing about ME (that I could see) but instead it used mentions of other people with my name: an author, a police chief, etc.

Personas

furbelow

furbelow \FUR-buh-low\ , noun:
1. A pleated or gathered flounce on a woman's garment; a ruffle.
2. Something showy or superfluous; a bit of showy ornamentation.

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My cat has fur all over, don't you know.
He's got fur on top, and furbelow.

That's much nicer than the poem I was thinking of posting.