Of Languages.Some linguist dude is suggesting that 90% of the 6,000 languages spoken today will be extinct in a century. He suggests that minor languages are a barrier to full participation in prosperous societies and that the unique world views encoded in them are kind of boring when you think about it. I’m down with […]

Fuck Balloon Boy, here’s a hoax you can really appreciate; On the 20th anniversary of the notorious chemical plant disaster in Bhopal, India, Bichlbaum appeared on the BBC as a representative of Dow Chemical, which now owns Union Carbide, the company responsible for the 1984 calamity. He announced a $12 billion plan to provide medical […]

Google has become a standard activity in internet-enabled societies. Googling something is right up there with going for groceries, taking out the trash, walking the dog, and other things that almost everyone does, or is at least intimately familiar with the concept. That said, ‘Googling’ shows up as an error in this spell check. Didn’t […]

Warcraft teaches real life survival skills? For one Norwegian lad and his sister, it sure does! From Boing Boing: Swedish boy outthinks angry moose with Warcraft skillz. The comments indicate that the boy was Norwegian and not Swedish. I don’t know squat about World of Warcraft, so I can’t make any nifty insider comments, but […]

So apparently someone in the USA is printing their own negotiable currency backed by gold and silver reserves. Just like in the old days when bread was a nickel and I wore an onion on my belt, because that was the style at the time.Even though there used to be hundreds, if not thousands of […]

Slate Magazine has an article on Live Action Role Playing (LARPS) and a documentary that was made about one of the larger events, Darkon. The article is a good commentary on societal bonds and how people are not interacting with each other like they used to. Slate: Feel the Sting of My Foam Sword “But […]