Archive for December, 2005

Turning into a Plant

Sunday, December 25th, 2005

Quick XMas post: This is truly creepy. After being pricked by a cactus, an Armenian girl began to grow thorns from her arm. The cactus had parasitized her, and after a time, some serious mutation occured:

When researchers studied the bigger thorns they arrived at a conclusion that they were no longer of [...]

Hipster Guilt

Tuesday, December 20th, 2005

So this may be old news to many, but there has been a flurry of hipster guilt trips flying around due to such occurrences as The Decemberists signing to a major label and LCD soundsystem having been nominated for two Grammys. Hipster guilt is not rational, so it seems…

First, while I am clearly no supporter [...]

Getting News Corp Blog Spam

Tuesday, December 20th, 2005

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Wiki Language Revival

Tuesday, December 20th, 2005

So yesterday while I was trying to do some research in Portuguese, I came across a Wikipedia page that looked strangely like Portuguese, yet still somewhat different. It turns out that it was Galipedia, the version of Wikipedia in Galician, or Galego. It was pretty strange, actually, because I could pretty much read everything on [...]

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