Random shit. Now and then... language related topics.

Monday, June 23, 2008

Shit, Piss, Fuck, Cunt, Cocksucker, Motherfucker and Tits

Man, what a shitty day. George Carlin is dead. The motherfucker was THE best american stand-up comedian. Do yourself a favor and go to YouTube and watch some of his clips. You won't regret. One of my favorite quotes:

"Religion has convinced people that there’s an invisible man…living in the sky, who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn’t want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer and burn and scream until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you and he needs money." -- George Carlin

Oh, the title? The famous seven dirty words unsuitable for radio or TV.

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Sounds like a crackpot idea for sure...

Is the universe actually made of math?

But the guy is a solid scientist. Far fetched, for sure, but it is good that scientists still keep thinking outside the box.

Firefox download day

Finally! It's Firefox download day. Brazil has almost 100 thousando pledges to download the new version 3. Do your part, download it today and be part of a world record (the silly part, but that is ok). Long live Firefox.

Thursday, June 12, 2008

It is out there...

You might not agree, but I don't care. This is the truth. Period.

I particularly like no. 4 on the list.

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

From my favorite webcomic




An insightful comment on Digg:

As a hedonist I say "Thank you sociologists for stereotyping my problems. thank you psychologists for classifying my problems, thank you biologists for rationalizing my problems, and thank you chemists for *causing* my problems. Also a quick shout out to physicists for coming up with new problems and Mathemeticians for not having anything relevant to say about my problems"
If one considers linguistics as a field of psychlogy, I am very impure but not as much as sociolinguists.