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How Likely Various Resolutions Are To Be Kept
Posted by apt46
on January 4, 2013
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How To Care For Introverts And Extroverts
Posted by apt46
on January 3, 2013
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The design comes from the Questionably Late Tumblr; the actual tips come from an article by a developmental psychologist. Then someone came up with a companion list for extroverts and the same designer made an image out of it:
From Questionably Late and Pretty Butch Lifts
The Relationship-Grammar Test
Posted by apt46
on December 28, 2012
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Why Polyamory And Homosexuality Are Wrong
Posted by apt46
on December 27, 2012
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Poly is Greek for “many” and amor is Latin for “love”. Same goes for homo, which is Greek for “same” and sex, which is Latin for… “sex”.
Homosexuality? What barbarity! It’s half Greek and half Latin! — from the 1997 play The Invention of Love
There are a ton of other hybrid words like this: television, neuroscience, monolingual, sociology, amoral, bureaucracy, etc. In fact, there are so many that a word for words like this should exist: heteroriginal, from the Greek hetero meaning “different” and the Latin origin, meaning… “origin”.
Holiday Bingo
Posted by apt46
on December 25, 2012
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From the same woman who brought us Thanksgiving Bingo. There are three more slight variations on Flavorwire.
See also:
- 2012 White House Christmas Decorations
- The 12 Shoppers Of Christmas
- A Brief History Of Santa
- A Krampus Carol
- Krampuslauf: Santa’s Demon Parade
From Flavorwire, via Neatorama
Nostradamus Predicted ‘Gangnam Style’ Would Reach A Billion YouTube Views On Mayan Doomsday
Posted by apt46
on December 25, 2012
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And by ‘Nostradamus’, I mean ‘the Internet’. Still, the fact that the prophecy came true is bizarre. About three weeks before the Mayan Doomsday of 21 December 2012, this image went viral:
It’s supposed to mean that the world would end when the Korean song ‘Gangnam Style‘ would get a billion views (1 followed by nine circles) on YouTube. Of course, the prophecy is a fake, just like many others, and Nostradamus never said anything of the sort. The strange thing is that it actually came true: on December 21st, ‘Gangnam Style‘ reached a billion views on YouTube — the first video to ever reach that milestone.
So either someone really prophesied it, maybe aided by some statistical forecasting, or the Internet population decided to make it come true by playing the video over and over in a concerted effort to reach a billion views on that date. In either case, it’s a very impressive feat.
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Incest
Posted by apt46
on December 20, 2012
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If you don’t get it: George R. R. Martin writes the series A Song of Fire and Ice, of which A Game of Thrones was the first book. The series features a lot of incest. J.K. Rowling wrote the Harry Potter series, in which Ron and Ginny Weasley are two of the main characters, and siblings.
See also:
- ‘Game of Thrones’ With Lightsabers
- George R. R. Martin Needs To Hurry Up
- George W. Bush’s Head On A Spike In ‘Game of Thrones’
- Harry Potter Comedy Remix
- Game of Simpsons
From You Choose Books, via FAIL Blog
How NASA Announcements Should Work
Posted by apt46
on November 30, 2012
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The Dark Ages Of The 1980s
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on November 28, 2012
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The ‘Phone’ Part of ‘Smartphone’
Posted by apt46
on November 26, 2012
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Millennials, or Generation Y, are those born around 1990, give or take a decade.
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From Sticky Comics, via Laughing Squid