Last week was busy.

So! Here we go.

Bears don't lose their muscles when they hibernate. Understanding why may be useful to astronauts...and those of us who don't move frequently.

Sorghum has recently been developed especially for dry climates and for processing into fuel.

Language Log. If you like language, read it.

A few things they've got:

• monkeys that understand language are bullshit.

• There has been a recent effort to teach strategically important languages to US citizens/personnel - but it is not the first! (Shortly before WW2 our country (or, more specifically, one professor with foresight) created an extremely ad-hoc, odd program that would later become the Defense Language Institute. Many of the professors selected to teach languages to our soldiers had never, in fact, studied the languages they were assigned.
  So they went off and learned them quick. )

• They support using "they" in a singular way - I like that. Plus, they found a few examples to back up this practice - dating back several centuries, (the very first English printing of the Bible, for example).

That alone made me like these guys.

Very worth reading.


Lastly, and this is related, though you may not know why - lolcats! You are certainly aware of them by now, and you have probably seen some of these photos. These are some that I like.

• Hydrogen-filled cat.

• Hoverkitten!

• A classic.

• Ikea.

Ending special - a quote I found. "Does this rag smell like chloroform to you?"

Climate change killed Neanderthals. (Note: not us)

Clear skies not actually clear. (The forecast never has been right...)

Damage from heart attacks doesn't happen when the brain is deprived of oxygen. It happens when oxygen is restored.

"How Blair Botched the Iran Hostage Crisis" (Britain's armed forces not so tough as they once were?)

"How Vietnam Really Ended" (It had little to do with domestic politics)

StarCraft 2 Trailer


Gameplay and Units Preview Video (warning: very long):

This news story mentioned guns being used in a positive way.
Bode Miller's (famous skiier?) cousin thought it'd be a good idea to shoot a cop four or so times, then run him over.
A passer-by picked up the fallen cop's gun, then shot the bastard (Liko Kenney) who did it.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18632025/

There's a lot to post right now, because these links have been languishing for a few days.

A gladiator's graveyard was found. Turns out gladiatorial battles were not insane melees with few survivors - they had rules. People still did die. And were killed for failure. But in an organized, civilized way.

A planet 1.5 times larger than Earth, thought to have liquid water, and only 20 light years from us, was found. Want to go?

Iraq's collapse was inevitable, and we all should have seen it coming. So says an Iraqi government minister and legislator.

Mormonism is a scam. How bout that. Also, Mohammed was a self-serving, epileptic syncretizer, and the probability that the Koran even contains his words, in any accurate or organized way, is quite low.

Finally, these people claim to have irrefutable scientific proof of the existence of God. Someone has to make Christianity look bad, right?. If they really have proof, great. I'll be astounded. But I am guessing they have something...less convincing. History is on my side. Worse, they will be debating the "Rational Response Squad" - atheists devoted to reason. On TV.

Like throwing a donkey into a shark pool. Sure, donkeys are good-natured and strong, but sharks are really good at what they do, and they're in their native environment. Oh, and donkeys taste good.


That's it for now!

Purpose

I decided to put things here that would be inappropriate for my other blog.

Say you found a puddle of fake vomit. You could put it on your books, your diaries, your photos, etc. That might be a good gag for guests once in a while.

Say you found a whole shipping crate full of it. That wouldn't be as funny, if it were all on your books.

Now say there was a high-speed freeway next to your house, and crates of fake vomit fell off on a regular basis. Then what? You wouldn't want to put it with everything else, right?

Me neither.

I would sell it.


Heheh...or at least collect it all in one place, and find something to do with it.


Here's the Internet, regurgitated.