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Rated Jan 28 2008 • 1 review • politics, posters, patriotism • imageshack.us

Borrowed from GreenLlama97,
who got it from hkbax.

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Moon in Bloom by ~anime-rachael-chan on deviantART

Rated Jan 26 2008 • 1 review • art, graphic art, pretty stuff • deviantart.com

Moon in Bloom

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Suzanne Pleshette - Obituary - New York Times

Rated Jan 25 2008 • 1 review • celebrities, tv, death, classic comedy, nostalgia • nytimes.com

According to the NY Times:


"Suzanne Pleshette, the husky-voiced actress who redefined the television sitcom wife in the 1970s by playing the smart, sardonic Emily Hartley on The Bob Newhart Show, died on Saturday [January
19, 2008] at her home in Los Angeles. She was 70."

What a Classy Broad ! 'Bye-'bye, Suzie-Q...

Other obits:

LA Times

Chicago Sun Times

CNN.com

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http://www.dontquoteme.com/qotd/

Rated Jan 24 2008 • 1 review • history, quotations • dontquoteme.com

"Homer no function
beer well without."

- Homer Simpson

On this date in 1935, the first cans of beer went on sale. Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company, which was based in New Jersey, started testing this new packaging with a batch of 2,000 cans. The product was a hit and the competition soon started canning beer as well. By the end of that year, over 200 million cans of beer had been sold.


(1958-) U.S. actor - Dan Castellaneta, as the voice of Homer Simpson, on The Simpsons (1989-); cartoon about a beer-swilling blue-collar worker and his dysfunctional family; Duff is Homer's favorite beer.

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The Evolution of Language & SEEDMAGAZINE.COM

Rated Jan 20 2008 • 1 review • evolution, linguistics, science, language • seedmagazine.com

From a fascinating article on language evolution:

"[V]ariants of FOXP2 [the "language gene"] have been discovered in just about every other organism all the way down to yeast. In fact, the protein it regulates is remarkably unchanged when compared across all species, and yet no other animal has co-evolved language. ..."

The simple finch has the non-human version, FoxP2. "[T]he finch's brain has two important circuits for singing, one for acquisition and another for performance. ...Their songs reflect a type of grammar with so-called trills and flourishes. Could the fact that FoxP2 regulates it be merely accidental? ..."

FOXP2 also regulates the intricate movements required for typing, tapping out rhythm, tying your shoes.

So why don't our ape-cousins have language? "What they don't have is a way to externalize their thoughts. I'd wager that chimps just lack the parser that FoxP2 regulates. Somehow humans, by contrast, were able to recruit an ancient gene with a relatively ancient function to help us squeeze our thoughts out into the airwaves, much as a finch does with his. We are just thinking apes, with a finch's ability to sing. ..."

That does it - I'm changing my screenname to FOXP2 !

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Be afraid, be very afraid

Rated Jan 20 2008 • 1 review • cult films, movies, quotations, remakes • phrases.org.uk

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

You know this ubiquitous phrase is from a movie, but which movie? You just
can't seem to remember.

Let me scratch that itch for you: it was first uttered, in the context we know it,
in The Fly. The 1986 (and in my opinion, lesser) version.


But don't miss out on its Biblical flavor (King James version).

The Original

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Zdjęcia - Galeria fotografii - Fotografia cyfrowa i...

Rated Jan 19 2008 • 1 review • architecture • onephoto.net

If AirStream built housing...

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http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee59/jstruan/punchcomb...

Rated Jan 14 2008 • 1 review • cyberculture, cute stuff, martial arts, gif • photobucket.com

So, what's with all
the Martial Arts GIFS,
all of a sudden ?

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