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High school expels student for tweeting f-word

I am sure that the people who run Garrett High School in Indiana radiate intelligence.

Perhaps, though, they have tossed a little inkblot onto their pristine record with the expulsion of senior Austin Carroll. He didn't assault anyone. He didn't toss a projectile, nor brandish a knife. No, it seems that he merely tweeted.

Please prepare your best judgmental pose while I transcribe (mostly) his supposedly most offensive tweet: "F*** is one of those F****** words you can F****** put anywhere in a F****** sentence and it still F****** makes sense."

There, how did that feel? … Read more

Study: Half of Facebook's walls enjoy profanity

I am not sure I see the point of Facebook walls. Save for those Facebook uses so that Google can't peer over.

However, I've never really thought about the vernacular that prevails on these relatively public repositories of graffiti.

So I am grateful to a company called Reppler, which decided to take a peek at the musings on 30,000 Facebook murals.

It was not a pretty sight. For Reppler deduced that 47 percent of Facebook users have naughty words on their wall. Naturally, for those of a permissive bent as myself, this seems to suggest that Facebook … Read more

Foursquare names world's rudest cities

If you travel around the world, you sometimes find yourself marveling at just how many different cultures can intersperse every second word with an expletive.

It's a talent that some might say the British have turned into something resembling an art form, as long as you have a refined interpretation of what constitutes art.

I am therefore expleting with joy that an English city has been named, by the politically correct techies at Foursquare, as the world's rudest.

How did Foursquare come to this conclusion? Well, in a post on the the company's engineering blog, Matthew Rathbone, … Read more

How Google's Nexus One censors cuss words

Some of you who have been basking in the beauty of your new Nexus One Googlephone may not have tried out all of its delightful features.

And what I am about to tell you may lead you to utter some naughty words. Please, go ahead. I have heard them all, in several different languages. And I respect the vehemence of the vernacular.

However, your Nexus One will not be so charmed by the vigor of your tongue. It will, dare I utter the word when referring to a product from the newly emancipated Google, censor you.

You see, the pungently … Read more