May
14

The monkey who works in the bar

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Monkeys, as I imagine, swing on bars. But not this one; this one works in bars.

Monkey works at bar

Japan has all the weird stuff, you gotta applaud the trainer though.

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May
11

Cute: Panda bear cub’s first 3 months

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Watch the first 3 months of a panda bear cub’s growth. Very cute.

Here’s a slideshow:

More at FotoSilver.

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Jan
25

Click if your computer screen is dirty

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Clean your computer screen through the internet! Click here to clean it.

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This is just so cool. I can see my monitor’s just got sparkling clean. Great work!

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Dec
26

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo

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“Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo” is a grammatically correct sentence used as an example of how homonyms and homophones can be used to create complicated constructs.

Sentence construction

The sentence is unpunctuated and uses three different readings of the word “buffalo”. In order of their first use, these are:

  • c. The city of Buffalo, New York (or any other place named “Buffalo”), which is used as an adjective in the sentence and is followed by the animal;
  • a. The animal buffalo, in the plural (equivalent to “buffaloes”), in order to avoid articles and is used as a noun;
  • v. The verb “buffalo” meaning to bully, confuse, deceive, or intimidate.

It may be revealing to read the sentence replacing all instances of the animal buffalo with “people” and the verb buffalo with “intimidate”. The sentence then reads

“Buffalo people [whom] Buffalo people intimidate [also happen to] intimidate Buffalo people.”

Preserving the meaning more closely, substituting the synonym “bison” for “buffalo” (animal), “bully” for “buffalo” (verb) and leaving “Buffalo” to mean the city, yields

‘Buffalo bison Buffalo bison bully bully Buffalo bison’, or:
‘Buffalo bison whom other Buffalo bison bully themselves bully Buffalo bison’.

This is the same sentence structure and meaning as ‘Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo’.

Just thought it’s something interesting that I random spotted at Wikipedia. Read more at Wikipedia.

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Dec
18

Japan’s pandas seem cuter

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The land of the Kawaii (Japanese) has everything cute, even their pandas seemed cuter. Twin Baby Pandas in Adventure World, Shirahama, Wakayama prefecture, Japan.

Baby Twin Panda

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Nov
27

Cadbury chocolate Gorilla plays drums

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Really funny new Cadbury dairy milk advert featuring Mr Gorilla drumming to Phil Collins’ In The Air Tonight:

Cadburys Dairy Milk Gorilla Advert

Ahh… I just thought that gorillas playing drums just look really cool.

An advertisement every Tuesday

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Nov
26

The world’s most amazing zebra crossing

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This extraordinary picture, taken by award-winning wildlife photographer Steve Bloom, shows just a fraction of the 1.5 million majestic wildebeest which cross the Mara River in Kenya every year.

They are joined on this incredible journey by 500,000 gazelle and 200,000 zebra.

Zebra crossing: The path is fraught with dangers with hundreds of crocodiles in the water and lions and other preditors lying in wait on the other side.

(Zebra crossing: The path is fraught with dangers with hundreds of crocodiles in the water and lions and other preditors lying in wait on the other side.)

All vehicles are sure to stop for these guys.

More at Daily Mail, including larger picture.

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