So, you know those pills that help men keep an erection? The ones whose name starts with “v” and (apparently) sounds like the Sanskrit word for “tiger”? Getting spam about that isn’t weird, but getting spam about that, which contains mangled Christian tracts, is too weird, even for me: enabled to lay hold on Christ by faith, and God the Father absurdity, and uneasiness which attends those who are but will be the ways of God even in this life: but when once we Here then, O believers! is one, though the lowest, degree of enabled to lay hold on …
Tag: odd
Ms. Dewey
Ms. Dewey is a really weird search engine… but, I think, is probably a decent model for the kind of thing we’ll be seeing as bandwidth pipes get wider and wider. But I hope they get a little more intelligent, so they’re not pestering me to enter new searches while I’m reading the results from the last one. And I hope the interface is a little more workable. I am vaguely impressed, even if it is an M$ product. (via Hypersonic Beams)
Dr. Who “Dubbed For We”
(via Julia)
P Diddy calls Bjork
At MILITANTPLATYPUS, P Diddy calls Bjork. I like Bjork, but you know, this is funny too.
Max Headroom Pirate Hijack?
Maybe the weirdest pirate broadcast you never heard of… or at least, that I’d never heard of.
Weird Medical Fact of the Day
Yes, another that I realized I hadn’t posted yesterday. In the course of explaining her feeling that anyone considering plastic surgery should be required to see a surgery, be present for one and really experience how gross it is to cut open a human body and fiddle with it, Lime mentioned a weird fact to me… it surprised me, but of course, I know rather little about the practicalities of the practice of modern medicine. Anyway… apparently during operations, it stinks. It stinks something awful. You know what it stinks like? Cooking meat. See, in some operations, they use these …
Color Me Unsurprised
Not one whit. About what?
Cut Cable in Hong Kong
Yes, if you tried to connect to my website today, and couldn’t, it’s because some kind of underwater cable in Hong Kong (where this site is being hosted) was cut. They’re working on it, but access has been sporadic for a while.
Inter-Hakwon Warfare
The Hankyoreh has a story about accused teaching method-piracy: An English teacher at a language institute in Seoul has been indicted on allegations that lectures she delivered to her students were stolen from a neighboring institute. I think I have a defense. Look for the original text which the original institute’s examples were stolen from. Teachers are unrepentant thieves. They also are often happy to share, since they stole themselves. I am somewhat doubtful that the teaching material was wholly original in this case. If it was, they should have published a textbook, in order to further learning. If that …
Goodbye, Cavendish Banana?
Oh, no, not again.