And so, in the revised entry for rock included in the O.E.D.’s June 2010 update, Melle Mel trumps Big Bank Hank as the earliest known M.C. to “rock the mic.” Though fresh evidence could always push the usage back even further, there’s a certain justice to setting the record straight, more than three decades after [...]
[11 Jul 2010]
… Words become very important in the power relations between individuals and groups, in the exercise of law and democratic ideals. They help define the other: a member of a group with other religious, racial, gender, or biological affiliations. A good example is the use of the five-letter English word tribe. The Western media’s analysis [...]
[4 Dec 2009]
PHP Classes interviews Khaled Al-Shamaa about his AR-PHP project, a series of PHP classes designed to handle Arabic-language web applications. Because Arabic uses a non-Latin character set, it presents a new set of challenges. PC: Developing Web applications in Arabic requires special care. What are the most important concerns and what components do you provide [...]
[18 Nov 2009]