In August, 2006, YouTube announced its plan to offer ‘every music video ever created’. For a while, it seemed as if this would be an achievable goal as one by one, Google (the owners of YouTube) reached agreements with the big music groups. But one of these agreements ended as a dispute just before Christmas […]

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Here’s my favourite YouTube clip of the moment:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_B5UrI7nAI

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This is a bit like an audio version of the famous Rubin’s vase. In this optical illusion, you can see either the vase or the two profiled faces but you can’t see them both at once.

Similarly, in the “Obama’s elf” auditory illusion (if that’s what you can call […]

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Wordle.net is an online tool which is used to create Word Clouds. Here is an example of a word cloud:

This Word Cloud was made using the ‘monkey keeps stealing my peanuts‘ joke. Note that the more a word appears in the text, the bigger it will be in the cloud. In the joke, for example, […]

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In my last posting I gave alist of 10 songs containing either ‘going to’ or gonna or both. In this posting, I am going to show you howI found them.
In the old days, if you had wanted to find 10 songs each containing a piece of target language, you would have had to do one […]

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Song hangman
I heard a song the other day that would seem to confirm a suspicion I have had for a while now. The song, which is called Chapel of love goes something like this:
Go-win’ to the chapel and we’re gonna get married
Go-win’ to the chapel and we’re gonna get married
Gee, I really love you and […]

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