| Instantiations of Nift XVIII |
[Jan. 23rd, 2007|01:27 am]
Scott
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How I Met My Wife. Key quote: "It had been a rough day, so I was very chalant, despite my efforts to appear gruntled and consolate."
Adopt-a-nun! The Salesian Sisters sponsor an Adopt-a-Nun service; donate a few hundred dollars a year and you get your own personal nun to pray for you and your family. Key quote: "You can't have enough nuns. I give them for birthday presents, Christmas presents...it's better than a scarf!"
Why My Mom Didn't Buy Me A Slot Car Track For Christmas In 1978, Even Though I Told Her That's What I Wanted, Not That I Am Bitter About This. Science finally discovers why relatives give such bad gifts. This will explain why no one buys you a nun next year.
I am a blue-eyed guy. I find blue-eyed girls pretty. Science has now come up with least romantic explanation ever for why.
Ex-Menelmacari: Ever wonder what Archie's up to these days? Neither did I...until I heard about the Geostationary Banana Over Texas project. The goal? To put a giant helium-filled banana in a geostationary low earth orbit over Texas. Honestly, how could this be anyone else?
The English school where I work has seven levels, from A to G. N'kisi meets the requirements to place into maybe Level C. But N'kisi will not be going to my school anytime soon, because N'kisi is an African grey parrot.
Buzkashi, the Afghan national sport. People get on horses, go into a field called the "Circle of Justice", and attack one another to try to gain control of a goat carcass. And yes, bringing a knife and stabbing players on the other teams is legal.
In a heavily guarded chateau outside Paris is a safe containing a single platinum iridium cylinder, weighing exactly 1.00000000000000000000... kg. A team of top international scientists now reports that it is mysteriously beginning to disintegrate, with dire consequences for the future of the world. Inside the race to replace the kilogram.
The average European is getting taller and taller with each passing year. The average American isn't. Why not, and why does it matter?
Speaking of height, give a company two identical job candidates and they'll hire the taller guy 3/4 of the time. 90% of CEOs are taller than average. The taller candidate wins 88% of American presidential elections. Height also determines sex appeal, perceived attractiveness, et cetera. So why, asks the article, isn't anyone concerned about heightism?
Speaking of little-known forms of prejudice, the Beard Liberation Front strikes out against beardism in Britain and the world. This is actually a good idea.
I can always trust Mainichi Daily to bring me the most important Japanese news. For example, Cat named stationmaster of unmanned station in Wakayama and Shiga Prefecture's Schoolgirls Boast Skimpiest Skirts in Japan. I'm only forty-five minutes away from both Wakayama and Shiga :0
Le'Mergiere Pointless et Huge: Britain and France considered merging back in the 1950s.
Saudi Arabia, not content with its current bans on women drivers, political parties, pet cats and dogs, movies, alcohol, dolls and teddy bears, cameraphones, Christmas trees, homosexuality, the Bible, and labor unions, is looking to ban the letter X. Because it looks like a cross, and a cross is Christian, and Christianity isn't Islam. Even setting aside how stupid that is, if you're going to ban a letter for looking like a cross, at least make it "t".
Tupper's Self-Referential Formula is a formula that, for a certain value of n, has a graph that looks like the formula itself. The site explains it better and has a picture of the graph. One of the best pieces of evidence that God has an awesome sense of humor.
Speaking of God, from  conglacio and gryphonavocatio comes The Ultimate Bible Quiz. Thanks to Jewish school, I got a 97% - would've been higher except that for some reason it included some weird newfangled thing called "The New Testament". But that's okay; I think you can go to Heaven if you get anything above a 70.
A comic about going to Heaven well worth showing to all of your fundamentalist friends.
A Finnish writer found a secret code in the Bible, recruited a group of eccentric British noblemen, and went digging in Jerusalem in a search for the Ark of the Covenant. And may have found it.
Things My Boyfriend Says. Quotes plus cool gratuitous pictures of robots.
Napoleon wasn't a real person, just an expression of an ancient sun myth. Or so claimed a French physicist in 1827.
It can only get better from here - because according to scientists, January 22nd is the worst day of the year. |
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