Thursday, June 02, 2011

Stuff below the fold

can you pass this Heinlein quiz?

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Elephant helps with tornado cleanup
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the "We're all gonna die" story of the day: now we have to worry about supervolcanos

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if the US is hit with a major cyberwar attack, the attackers may find they face the real thing in retaliation.

Strategypage summarizes all the troubles in the world HERE.

Various places where the local situation is warming up and might turn into a war. Arab Spring violence in Syria and Bahrain, plus unrest in Zimbabwe and Guatemala are hot right now. Syria may get a lot worse, but the other three won't.


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FYI: Father Z says that the Latin words for Tweet and twitter

I have suggested that Latin for “tweet” as in the use of Twitter should be pipata, “tweets” from pipio “to twitter, chirp”.

rogueclassicism disagrees:

Twitter in Latin should be Titiatio and a tweet Titiatum


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hmm...maybe someone should ask Julius Caesar on his twitter page.

Gaius Julius Caesar

Gaius Julius Caesar

@Julius_Caesar Rome
Descendent of Venus, conqueror of all Gaul, dictator for life

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