The Rosetta Project

The Rosetta Project is a global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers working to build a publicly accessible digital library of human languages. Since becoming a National Science Digital Library collection in 2004, the Rosetta Archive has more than doubled its collection size, now serving nearly 100,000 pages of material documenting over 2,500 languages--the largest resource of its kind on the Net.

I Can Do That

Game Time!!

Oh, that's....... whats his face!!?

I just saw this guy on TMZ last night and was reminded of how many awesome movies he's in. As a practice, I try not to wiki actors that I enjoy because then I'm forced to confront their idiotic socialist rhetoric (like this). Click the image for an impartial IMDB profile.

Cool Picture of Clouds from Space

Game Time!!

Bill Clinton is Great and So Can You!

In this article Bill Clinton talks about how a professor once told him that "great men often require less rest than ordinary people, some sleeping no more than five hours a night." And because Bill is such a great man he had no choice but to adopt that pattern.

Gee...that's funny, because a wise man once told ME that great men do not attempt to become great by copying the personal habits that professors say are common among great men. Besides, I don't get much sleep either.....and I'm a loser.

This Is Awesome

Cool Optical Illusion

Audi Just Got Served

But One For Me

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Somali Pirate Thinks He's A Celebrity

It's either because he just looked up the word 'asylum' in the English/Somali dictionary or he found out that he's entitled to free dental care.

I For One Welcome Our Uncanny Robotic Overlords!

How To Get Your Hair Really...Really Clean!

The NYT reports "Waterboarding Used 266 Times on 2 Suspects"(Link)

A lot of people will look at this NYT headline and say things like:

1) How anyone can believe that repeatedly use this ugly technique this many times isn't torture mystifies me.
3) I bet if we took someone who says waterboarding is not torture, we could make them confess that it truly is, by waterboarding them up to 200 times.
4) If you do something to someone 100 times, just how much can you rely on the information he gives up on the 101st attempt?

My Response:

1) Nick Berg and Daniel Pearl were unavailable for comment.

One Crazy SOB

Non-Bias News Reporting From CNN (Gasp!)

Summation Of A Typical Marriage

Take a guess at which cat is the wife.

Quit Playin With You Dingy !

According to the AP:

"..dramatic and successful rescue operation by U.S. Special Operations forces... left Obama with an early victory that could help build confidence in his ability to direct military actions abroad.."

First of all, this was not a rescue attempt ordered by National Command Authority (i.e. the President.) It was a reaction by the on scene commander under standard authority to safeguard the life of a hostage. To his credit, he did affirm the military's authorization to use force if the captain's life was in danger, but they already would have had that authorization as part of their standard rules of engagement.

Secondly, You got to be kidding if you are calling this a "military victory". Only the swooning media would consider picking off a bunch of peg legged swashbucklers in a life raft a military victory, and if this situation gives you "confidence in his (Obama's) ability to direct military actions abroad"....then you are seriously underestimating the "abroad" threats we are currently facing.

There's An App For That

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More aggressive cartoons are funnier (Duh!)

McCauley C, Woods K, Coolidge C, Kulick W.

J Pers Soc Psychol. 1983 Apr;44(4):817-23.

Independent rankings of humor and aggressiveness were obtained for sets of cartoons drawn randomly from two different magazines. The correlation of median humor and median aggressiveness rankings ranged from .49 to .90 in six studies involving six different sets of cartoons and six different groups of subjects, including children and adults, high and low socioeconomic status (SES) individuals, and native- and foreign-born individuals. This correlation is consistent with Freudian, arousal, and superiority theories of humor. Another prediction of Freudian theory, that high-SES subjects should be more appreciative of aggressive humor than low-SES subjects, was not supported.