THE ALGORITHM CONSTANTLY FINDS JESUS
THE ALGORITHM IS BANNED IN CHINA
This is rich; hope you don’t mind Chris! Explanation here.
Category Archives: Oddly Enough
National High Five Day
In the spirit of peace, love, and general awesomeness, I high-five you!
National High Five Day falls on the third Thursday of April each year, which falls this year on April 19, 2007. The holiday originated at the University of Virginia in 2002, and has since spread across the nation, and around the globe.
Imagine that while on your way to class, you pass a dignified looking middle-aged man in a suit. Instead of noticing this respectable pillar of society fifteen seconds or so before your interaction is fated to occur, and lowering your head to avoid his disapproving scowl, you and the businessman simultaneously raise your hands and wordlessly high-five. You both walk on, and likely relate the story to whomever you eat dinner with that night.
Special thanks to Nate and Ted for bringing this to my attention.
a cat walks onto a bus…
No, it’s not the first line of a bad joke. According to the Daily Mail:
Bus drivers have nicknamed a white cat Macavity after it has started using the No 331 several mornings a week.
The feline, which has a purple collar, gets onto the busy Walsall to Wolverhampton bus at the same stop most mornings – he then jumps off at the next stop 400m down the road, near a fish and chip shop.
I don’t quite get the nickname, but the rest of it is oddly fascinating. I can totally imagine Kahlua getting on the Number 11 and heading over to a diner.
nuthatches seem to understand chickadee
Another bit of insight into animal languages from this AP story:
Nuthatches appear to have learned to understand a foreign language – chickadee. It’s not unusual for one animal to react to the alarm call of another, but nuthatches seem to go beyond that – interpreting the type of alarm and what sort of predator poses a threat.
[via TeresaCentric]
because I know you want to go
…to Poseidon!
Yup. I’m torn between “err, it’s kind of resort-y” and “Oh my Gosh,
it’s keen! We each get personal submarines! We can feed fish at our
room window by pushing a button on our control console! Each suite is
independently able to be lifted to the surface in case of emergency!”
Everything is exclamationy.
Because you know you want to.