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You are being lied to about pirates
an interesting opinion piece. i'd love to see more references....but alas.http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-you-are-being-lied-to-about-pirates-1225817.htmlworst plot ever?
Troll 2:
A movie in which vegetarian goblins try to trick a family into turning into plants so they can devour them.There's No One as Irish as Barack O'Bama
I can't embed the video due to request by the author (why on earth would somebody want to disable this?).
but you can catch it on the 'tube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HplZ_taHXLMThank You Wikipedia!
I spent several hours tonight with the opening riff of Procol Harum's A Whiter Shade of Pale repeating in my head. Only I couldn't hum to the lyrics, so I was having great difficulty tracking down the song on teh interwebs (Google *still* doesn't allow searching via .mp3 or .wav uploads ( Read more... )fantastic
In 2005, three MIT graduate students skeptical of the standards at some academic conferences wrote a computer program to randomly generate papers, complete with charts and diagrams. They mad-libbed academic jargon - which can sound like gibberish - into sentences that literally were gibberish, such as, "The model for our heuristic consists of four ( Read more... )Breaking: Somali Pirates in Discussin to Acquire CitiBank!
November 20 (Bloomberg) -- The Somali pirates, renegade Somalis known for hijacking ships for ransom in the Gulf of Aden, are negotiating a purchase of Citigroup ( Read more... )You will.
Reading an interesting article from the New Yorker written at the end of May, 2004, about Obama.
One of the moments I quite enjoy:
Jan Schakowsky told me about a recent visit she had made to the White House with a congressional delegation. On her way out, she said, President Bush noticed her “obama” button. “He jumped back, almost literally,” she ( Read more... )
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