What the hell is p00n and how does it differ from pwn? There's a resemblance to n00b, except the first and last letters are changed. I have no way of determining if p00n is an alternative of n00b or it's the other way around.

If you want to lose a good night's sleep, go watch this sappy hetero movie and listen to the song too.

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No wonder why left-handers are oppressed. Right-handers have to squish anything that threatens their feigned superiority. This one is for you, reversegecko!

Left-handers 'think' more quickly

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Go read Five Years After 9/11: Drop the War Metaphor

George Lakoff is a linguistics professor at UC Berkeley. He works at the Rockridge Institute, a progressive think tank that aims to reframe the media-washed way we look at politics. I read his book, Metaphors We Live By, when I was still in college, although I never took his class. He was one of ( Read more... )

Tuesday, July 25, 2006 (AP ( Read more... )

Am taking a break from LiveJournal. I will delete charmenders tomorrow morning, but I won't take anyone off my friends' list. I'll come back eventually.

Why would one still believe that ostriches hide their heads in sand?

Hayes leaves 'bigoted' South Park ( Read more... )

If you have been following the news about the outrage over the Muhammad cartoons and thought of it as a matter of free speech, perhaps you may want to think twice after reading slit's brilliant post in which she debunks misleading assumptions behind the story.