Oh, I love that linguistics article and test! Though I wasn't completely guessing, since they used some Romanian. Fascinating.
Willow: Were there dolphins? Tara: Yes. Many dolphins at the pound. Willow: Was there a camel? Tara: There was the front of a camel. A half-camel.
'Selfless'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
smonster - Jul 20, 2011 7:41:11 pm PDT #17407 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Scrappy - Jul 20, 2011 7:46:53 pm PDT #17408 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Everybody's gone now. Nice peeps.
meara - Jul 20, 2011 8:24:12 pm PDT #17409 of 30001
That bathing suit is awesome! You should totally get it, Kat!
And very cool evening, Scrappy!
I went and worked out (every day but two for the last week and a half!) after band-aiding my blister...but now I have three MORE blisters. Ow. Ow. Ow. Also kinda puts the kibosh on my plan for a pedicure tomorrow.
meara - Jul 20, 2011 9:41:54 pm PDT #17410 of 30001
I did give myself a new manicure and it's pretty (OPI Manicurist of Seville), but I'm worried I'll have the same messed-up-with-sheet-marks if I go to bed now. Post, people!
Jessica - Jul 21, 2011 3:18:21 am PDT #17411 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
New Scientist posits that sounds have meanings divorced from language and across cultures. Test yourself!
I'm pretty sure the fact that the questions are only in English makes this quiz bullshit. (I know I know, online quizzes are not science, but you can't say "divorced from language and culture" and then proceed to demonstrate this using ONE language!)
Jessica - Jul 21, 2011 3:20:18 am PDT #17412 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
IOscienceN, did we know that parasitic worms may be able to cure MS? On the one hand, ewwwwwww:
Every two weeks over the course of three months, the patients in the study drank 2,500 of the eggs mixed into a sports drink. The eggs hatched in the patient's intestines and were killed by the immune system after about a week.
But on the other hand, yay!
"What makes us optimistic is that brain lesions in four out of the five patients decreased over the course of the study and then rebounded—or rose—again after it finished," says Dr. Fleming.
tommyrot - Jul 21, 2011 4:55:59 am PDT #17413 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Cashmere - Jul 21, 2011 5:05:06 am PDT #17414 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.
A teammate of mine named her van "Vangina" because she carries all of her kids in it.
Scrappy, that is amazingly cool.
We were sans power for about 16 hours last night and most of yesterday. Highs hit 98 degrees F. Seriously uncool. Had to ditch some stuff in the fridge as it got too warm. The freezer was mostly empty so I didn't lose anything there.
Steph L. - Jul 21, 2011 5:05:10 am PDT #17415 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Möbius Cake
There is nothing about that cake that I don't like.
ION, CNN states the frigging obvious: [link] What amuses me is that Galactica has been off the air for 2 years and they're just now acting like this is some goddamn previously unknown aspect of the show.
Jessica - Jul 21, 2011 5:14:57 am PDT #17416 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Syfy (then called the Sci-Fi Channel)
Yep, still annoyed by this.