This is just odd: The image is courtesy of the Engrish.com website, which posts something like this every day. The website credits the photo to Lindsay Powell. If you can’t read the fine print above, the text under the product … Continue reading
Category Archives: Funny peculiar
Suppose you’re designing a language course. All else being equal, you’d probably want to teach the most common words first, and there are a number of references you can check for that purpose. (For example, Wikipedia’s page for the most … Continue reading
This video does a nice job of highlighting some weird aspects of human vision in just three minutes. Link: https://youtu.be/0NPH_udOOek This first oddness it mentions is the blind spot, a place on the retina devoid of imaging cells where the … Continue reading
Alton Brown, Stephen Colbert, and Science! Or engineering anyway: Link: https://youtu.be/wkHJgJeo7xQ “Any sufficiently commonplace magic will be deemed technology.” — Nimblespheres’ Law by … Continue reading
Over the past six months or so I’ve heard a few mentions of this film, all of them reasonably favorable, so I finally decided to watch it. What we have here is a half-hour-long, intentionally over-the-top parody of 1980s Hollywood … Continue reading
A roundup of science news (link) on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show blog includes this rather disconcerting entry: The best new species discovered over the last year include skeletal sea dragons and giant carnivorous planets. I suspect that last word should … Continue reading
Back in 2009 Harvard Business School professor published an article in the Journal of Economic Perspectives (link to PDF) on the economics of on-line pornography. Probably its most reported observation was that by multiple measures, the conservative and heavily religious … Continue reading
Music associated with positive emotions — love, happiness, and so on — tends to be written in a major key, and minor keys are used for music meant to sound sad, eerie, or menacing. This is of course very rough … Continue reading
The guy behind the drive-thru pranks (skeleton driver and the like) does a bit with a plush frog sitting on a bench in a park who asks women to kiss him and turn him back into a prince. A remarkably … Continue reading
This is funnier than you’d think, and at four minutes it’s admirably concise. Link: https://youtu.be/d9WzC2baIW4 The Mexican chop suey sounds like it shouldn’t be as awful as they say, but then again I haven’t tried it myself… by … Continue reading