Like many people, I have mixed feelings about Hezbollah. On the one hand they seem to be closely tied to the corrupt clerics in Iran and are no stranger to anti-semitic remarks; but on the other, they are all that stand between Israel and their predilection for massacres in Southern Lebanon like those at...
56 Best and Worst High School Analogies
Quite a few of these made me lol Her eyes were like two brown circles with big black dots in the center. He was as tall as a 6′3″ tree. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master. From the attic...
Inaccurate?
While finding headlines for Novemberfourth.org the other day, I noticed something strange about the submissions on Digg pertaining to McCain and Palin. An enormous amount of them had been marked as being potentially inaccurate. This struck me as odd, since many of the submissions were simply true or false. It wasn’t like there was...
Newspaper warning labels
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Republicans and Recessions
While reading this post last night about the bond market, I couldn’t help but notice the graphic linked halfway down. It’s a graph mapping the correlation between recessions and some other economic stuff. What caught my eye though is that according to the chart, every single recession in the last half a century has...
The Ambigrams of Douglas Hofstadter
Ambigrams are a kind of word play using the form of one word to construct another. Originally called “inversions”, credit for the idea is generally given to Scott Kim. The creativity and depth of Kim’s work is unsurpassed. Isaac Asimov once called him “The Escher of the alphabet”. An impressive collection of Scott Kim’s...