I’ve discovered a video of the secret ninja-cat training program, in which cats learn how to ambush unsuspecting passers-by in their bid to rule the world.
[YouTube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v71Dtj2W7pw&feature=player_embedded]
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5 Good Reasons to Punch a Dolphin in the Mouth
According to theoatmeal.com, there are at least five very good reasons to punch a dolphin in the mouth. You may not agree, but these should definitely be kept in mind the next time that you meet a dolphin:
- When a dolphin makes those cute whistles and clicking sounds, they’re actually vulgar insights.
- Their rubbery, soft skin is easy on the knuckles and makes for a great undersea punching bag.
- Dolphins play their entire lives. Humans only play until we reach adulthood – this us unfair. Make it fair by landing a roundhouse kick to the face.
- Dolphins love to think that they’re the strongest and fastest. Ever see them swim with a boat? To them it’s a race. Put them in their place with a solid left hook to the jaw.
- Anything that smiles that often needs to be reminded that the world is a cruel, dark place.
(Please note: no dolphins were harmed in the creation of this post.)
Police officers shot the son of man
I hate it when that happens. And then, to top it all off, they arrested him on drug charges too. Have they no respect?
It’s amazing how much line breaks can affect the meaning of a sentence. Thanks to Jim West for pointing this out on Jesus Creed.
The secrets of scholarly abbreviations finally revealed
Many thanks to James McGrath for pointing out this “Lexicon of Scholarly Usage,” which explains what several common scholarly abbreviations and phrases actually mean. You can see the whole list on his blog, but I thought these were too good to pass up:
- “et al.” = “plus some people I’ve never heard of”
- “c.f.” = “You look it up, I didn’t have time.”
- “etc” = “there may be other examples but I can’t find any.”
- “i.e.” = “or as I should have said in the first place”
- “It is well established” = “Those who think what I think agree with me”
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the Vuvuzela
If Gandalf can’t stop the vuvuzelas, all hope is lost.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B2LPxggvqY&feature=player_embedded]
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Monty Python and the philosophers world cup
In honor of today’s World Cup matches for America and England (and because it’s Friday), here’s a video of Monty Python’s take on what a philosophers world cup might look like. Go Greece!
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92vV3QGagck]
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USA vs. England in Legos
[From Andrew]
For those of us soccer fans I thought you would get a kick out of this version of the USA/England match on Saturday.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUnU3B6WsJ4&feature=player_embedded#!]
Darth Vader diagnosed with borderline personality disorder
I have always found the practice of diagnosing dead people through their writings to be a fascinating exercise. A recent example of this is Ian Osborn’s Can Christianity Cure Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?: A Psychiatrist Explores the Role of Faith in Treatment (Brazos 2008), in which he diagnoses Luther, Bunyan, and Teresa of Avila as all being OCD. It makes me wonder what psychological disorders would be attributed to me if someone only had my writings to go by.
But, even more fascinating than diagnosing dead people is diagnosing people who were never alive in the first place. Talk about job security. So, researchers in France have concluded that Darth Vader had borderline personality disorder. As BoingBoing reports, they concluded:
He presented impulsivity and difficulty controlling his anger and alternated between idealisation and devaluation (of his Jedi mentors)….He also experienced two dissociative episodes secondary to stressful events. One occurred after his mother’s death, when he exterminated a whole tribe of Tuskan people, while the other one took place just after he turned to the dark side. He slaughtered all the Jedi younglings before voicing paranoid thoughts concerning his former mentor and his wife. Finally, the films depicted his quest to find himself, and his uncertainties about who he was. Turning to the dark side and changing his name could be interpreted as a sign of identity disturbance.
Poor Darth. If only psychiatric medicine had been as advanced in his day. Maybe he could have been saved.
