For all the lovely technological advances of our era, it still seems that part of the globe is at a disadvantage because of a linguistic barrier.
Take the the most recent example: the fancy schmancy new iPhone.*
Check out the ruckus after the jump.
Remember the famous “Spudnik” episode of Friends?
The one where Chandler makes fun of Ross for dressing up like galactic doody?
Well it never occur to me that doody could be intergalactic.
In Mary Roach’s new book, Packing for Mars: the Curious Science of Living in the Void, the mysteries of life off Earth are explained in their totality.
Hey, if we’re going to travel in space, we have to be prepared to deal with life in its totality–including space waste.
Watch her take on it as she is interviewed by Jon Stewart on The Daily Show after the jump.
I bet you knew about the existence of geeks. In fact, a few of you might be geeks (like me). But did you know that there’s a special group of people that are punctuation or even letterhead geeks?
Week after week a diligent group of people dedicates its little corner of cyberspace to documenting these interests.
I guess it’s kind of like those people that collect butterflies in glass cases…
If you love Paul the Octopus (Paul der Krake to the German crowd), then you’ll be happy to know the following…
From: univision.com
Remember Ghost? Where Patrick Swayze’s character communicates with the living via Oda Mae (played by Whoopi Goldberg)? Well, Cristina Castrellón claims she’s had a real Ghost-like experience.
We all know that “S” is for Snooki. But could it be that coincidental that the word “stupid” also starts with “S”?
Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi, star of Jersey Shore (from MTV.com)
I recently ran across a Huffington Post blog post that claims that the Jersey Shore star just managed to stumble through her first book. Yes. FIRST. BOOK. Was it a book about tanning? Machiavelli’s The Prince?
Nope.
Her first book, it seems, was Nicholas Sparks’ Dear John. I wonder how many fist pumps she gave it?
