Apple just released a 27inch iMac with 220ppi, on a 5210×2880 screen.

Damn.

DO WANT.

That’ll be the best thing ever for reading on the desktop.

Apple basically said, you commoners, you can have your 4K. We’ll have 5K.

And to those who will inevitably say it is useless: I can use it, right now. Good fonts are really important to me. The high-PPI screen on my iPad changed my reading immensely. It is far far better than a physical book. The fonts are perfect.

This will do the same thing for the desktop.

The poster below is in Nigerian Pidgin. Though it’s called Nigerian Pidgin, in this form it’s probably actually a creole.

I love this. Stuff like this makes a language geek high.

Don’t worry, I won’t geek out too much but the poster has one of my favorite language features and that is reduplicative intensification.

*takes off language geek hat partially*

The words “well well” are a good example with this. Especially tending to emerge from chimeras of languages that have very different intensifier formations, you’ll often see doubled words used as intensifiers. In this sense, it means “extremely well.”

I’ll often use reduplicative intensifiers in my own speech with people I know well. In the instances that I’ve accidentally done so in the presence of strangers or acquaintances, that hasn’t gone so well.

But check out the poster.

(Yes, this poster is real and yes it is an official language of Nigeria. And it’s also awesome.)

This is not hyperbole, though many people will describe it as such.

It’s a fact that’s often been minimized, denied and made fun of, but in our society which runs foremost on information and access to it, the one who controls this information controls the society.

Absolutely self-evident, but people will quibble about it, not realizing or perhaps not wanting to realize out of mental self-protection just how much their life is ruled by this reality.

Which is exactly why the Comcast-Time Warner merger is so dangerous.

The pending acquisition of Time Warner cable would give Comcast control of almost half the cable television households in America. The pending destruction of net neutrality by the FCC would provide Comcast, the largest broadband provider in the United States, total control over the use of the Internet by the American public.

Yep. With more than 50% share, the baleful monstrosity that would be Comcast-Time Warner could and would dictate internet policy in the US.

What’s left of the free and open internet would be shredded posthaste.