Somewhat amusing: The general term for a misheard lyric is a “mondegreen,” a word originally proposed by Sylvia Wright in a 1954 essay in Harper’s Magazine. It’s one of the few deliberate coinages to make it into dictionaries. Wright derived … Continue reading
OK, this is admittedly just dumb, but I found it mildly amusing: Any problem can be treated by rubbing some bacon on it: The same guys, Rhett & Link, have done several amusing videos based on YouTube’s automated captioning feature, … Continue reading
On May 31 the official portrait of former President George W. Bush was unveiled at the White House with a nice bit of good humor and camaraderie from the current and immediate past presidents and their wives. There’s some amusing … Continue reading
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I enjoyed the Mars novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs when I first read them in my early teens and retain a great deal of affection for them still. Flawed they certainly are, with preposterously flowery dialog, implausible, formulaic, and coincidence-driven … Continue reading
CNN’s Anderson Cooper is reduced to incoherence during is report on the traditional celebration of Dyngus Day, the Polish American name for Easter Monday: I gather Cooper later apologized for cracking up, and the organizers of Dyngus Day in Buffalo, … Continue reading
NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) website is always worth a visit, and yesterday’s entry is particularly interesting. We often think of the Earth as a watery planet because water covers so much of the surface, and evidence of … Continue reading
It’s not pretty. Update: Well, dang. The video appears to be gone. (It might be somewhere else on YouTube, but I haven’t time at the moment to look for it. There are plenty of similar pranks anyway.) It was a … Continue reading
In under six minutes, successful entrepreneur and venture capitalist Nick Hanauer explains clearly and understandably what it takes to create a booming economy. Hanauer is an American entrepreneur who founded and run a number of successful companies going back to … Continue reading
The following is a political ad, so obviously it’s not objective. But as far as I can tell it’s factually accurate. Romney really did make those false accusations, and they are indeed false. This isn’t to say that Obama doesn’t … Continue reading