MILF versus cougar.
I have given some thought to the matter. I think on the whole, despite the inherent passivity of MILF (the name itself is objectification), it is less offensive than cougar which (to my ear at least) implies a negative kind of predatorship. How many people get mauled by MILFs when they go hiking up in the mountains?
I rest my case.
Even Danes have trouble with Danish. Send help.
I don’t care if you live in Krakow, you really don’t want to name your company Eurokrak. Just a hint.
I can’t vouch for all of it (for some reason it’s missing yebat’, for example) but here is a nice compendium of Russian slang, most of it obscene, all of it transliterated. Happy Bastille Day, ye non-Cyrillic-reading monkeys.
via warren ellis
There are certain…discrepancies between the Ten Commandments of Exodus 20 and Exodus 34, not to mention Deuteronomy 5, not to mention the substantial discrepancy between the Catholic and Protestant versions, not to mention…
See also: the Zompist Phrasebook (scroll down to “A Little Romance”. You’ll see.)
Ireland: not just English and Gaelic anymore. There are at least 167 different languages spoken in Ireland today. The census is available in eighteen different languages.
I knew that Samantha Mumba was Irish-African, but for some reason I thought she was exceptional in that. Though I still wonder how diverse the country is outside of Dublin…
via languagehat
[Brown cubicle rot] causes extensive butt rot in infected trees.
I can laugh at this because I, of course, do not have a cubicle, but rather a wide spot in a hallway in the basement.
Apparently, Charlie Mingus was Scottish. Or at least his surname…
Apparently, Hebrew as she is spoke in Israel has already diverged greatly from classical Hebrew. The culprit? Mostly the calques formed by new speakers, which would “infect” the Hebrew word with all the semantic data of the (Polish, German, Russian, etc) word that the speaker meant.
This page seems to be designed expressly to torture robots and spammers. Gloriously evil.
An interesting second opinion on what a positive herpes test means. Mostly, all a serum blood test for herpes does is remove the bliss of ignorance, not actually give you any useful information:
Most sexually active adults have been exposed to herpes at some time or other, whether or not they use condoms. Maybe during birth. Maybe by kissing somebody who was exposed at birth. Maybe during sex. But most of them who are positive have never and will never have an outbreak. All the test says is that they have antibodies. Maybe these antibodies kicked the herpes virus dead. Maybe they didn’t. It’s impossible to say. You may never have an outbreak. Or you may. Don’t know. You are pretty much in the same boat as a person who has never had the test only you know this thing and now you have to decide what to do about it.
Although, they serve no useful purpose as of yet, textarc and valence are pretty to look at. Both of them take a novel or so of text as input, and map it out based on the frequency and relationship of the words.
Although valence is undeniably cooler, the author of textarc has got his act together enough that you can use more than just Twain’s The Innocents Abroad as input
No, really, I’m not kidding:
0mE kId 0n A me$$4gEb04rD m1ghT 8E a r0xX0r1nG hAxX0r wH0 w4nT2 t0 bR34k 5tuFf, 0r mAyb3 ju5t sh0w 7eh wAy5 l33t ppl cAn 8E m0re lIkE y0d4!!! hE i5 teh u8ER!!!! 1t m1ght 8E 5omE v1rus 0r a Pl4ySt4tI0n ch34t c0dE. 1t 3v3n MiTe jUs7 s4y "H3LL0 W0RLD!!!" u ju5t cAn'T gu3s5. tH3r3's n3v3r anY p0iNt l00KiNg sC3pT1c4l c0s th4t, be1_1Ev3 iT 0r n0t, 1s whAt th1s 1s!!!!! 5uxX0r5!!!L0L0L0L0L!!!!!!!
sensibly enough, it’s related to the venerable brainf***:
>>>>>,+[>>>,+]< <<[<<< [>>>[-< <<-<+>[>]>>]< <<[<]>> [>>>+< <<-]<[>+>>>+< <<<-] <<]>>>[-.[-]]>>>[>>>]< <<]
Apart from the obvious amazement at how much time some people have on their hands, I am afraid. Very afraid.
This just cracks me up for some reason.