Rather than post a million tiny links all the time, here’s only the best of what I’ve seen on the web this past week, by categories
Neat things that caught my eye lately:
ACT I SCENE 2. A road, morning. Enter a carriage, with JULES and VINCENT, murderers.
J: And know’st thou what the French name cottage pie?
V: Say they not cottage pie, in their own tongue?
J: But nay, their tongues, for speech and taste alike
Are strange to ours, with their own history:
Gaul knoweth not a cottage from a house.
V: What say they then, pray?
J: Hachis Parmentier.
V: Hachis Parmentier! What name they cream?
J: Cream is but cream, only they say le crème.
V: What do they name black pudding?
J: I know not;
I visited no inn it could be bought.
More here.
Today I’ve got a list of Difficult English Words you can use to impress your friends with and really stand out as the nerd you are. If you’re also a coder then you may appreciate this collection of bit twiddling hacks — there’s something there for everyone, and of course it also has the famous HAKMEM bit counting algorithm. City Shrinker makes large things look very small. It’s hard to believe that these aren’t models. For the audiophiles and cat-lovers, here’s Purrcast, the sound of cats purring. And last, but not least, this man is my new hero.
The Ice Pirates is one of those movies that inexplicably became a milestone in my own movie upbringing. When we watched this as kids, we decided we could make a movie at least as good as this and set out to make our own cardboard props and filmed a dew minutes with a VHS camera before we realized that no, we couldn’t really.
This dog needs no help keeping himself entertained:
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I don’t know if I’d feel entirely safe letting the dog (or kid) play with this unattended. Thanks for the link, Arnleif 🙂
This is a clip from the French version of Who wants to be a millionaire.
If you don’t understand French, the question is “what revolves around the earth?” and his options are A) the moon, B) the sun, C) mars and D) venus.