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Last login: 2 weeks agoSlyguy135: Guy is a 25 year old guy from Leamington Spa, England, UK.; Likes 441 pages, 4 photos • 27 fans • Received 4 reviews; Member since Apr 04, 2004

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Crazy English: Apr 25, 5:09am 0 review
http://sino-platonic.org/complete/spp170_crazy_english.html

Grown-up politics goes&up&in&flames | spiked: Apr 7, 7:46am 1 review activism
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/4956/; "[The "Free Tibet" protest at the Olympic procession in London was] cartoon politics; it was about avoiding serious debate and instead taking refuge in the warm and moist-feeling arena of super-simplistic moral condemnation." Yep, sounds right. When will people stop being so smug, please? It's getting boring.

Hebrew names, Jewish names &Biblical names, Hebrew names for babies: Jan 28, 8:12am 0 review judaism
http://www.learn-hebrew-names.com/

DIGYOUROWNGRAVE.COM - Oh, the Huge Manatee!: Oct 24, 2007 6:38am 1 review card-games
http://www.digyourowngrave.com/2007/oh-the-huge-manatee/

Fishing in the Bay & Blog Archive & More on Pearson and Eugenics: Oct 21, 2007 3:23pm 2 reviews stats, statistics, eugenics
http://blogs.mbs.edu/fishing-in-the-bay?p=174; Karl Pearson, one of those guilty of perpretrating the first "significance test", also had a penchant for eugenics, going so far as to set up a journal on the topic called "Annals of Eugenics". Here's a contemporary review of his first paper for the journal. This should serve as a warning to all scientists: You could be wrong! Please don't jump to conclusions too quickly, or hindsight will one day laugh at you. That is, if your ideas have not led to the destruction of mankind.

Translations of Its all Greek/Chinese/Hebrew/Arabic to me in many languages: Nov 9, 2006 7:00pm 3 reviews linguistics
http://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/incomprehensible.htm; When the English don't understand something with their verifiedly tiny little minds, they exclaim "It's all Greek to me!". If you're as curious and intelligent and handsome and funny as I am, you'll be wondering how other language-speaking groups express the same idea by implying that a tongue foreign to them is essentially gobbledegook. The linked site will tell you, which explains why I'm writing all this. I told you I was intelligent, but you didn't listen. Chinese seems to be a popular language to indicate incomprehensibility, although the French, strangely, also choose Hebrew, apparently, as do Finnish-speakers. So what do the Chinese say? Ah, that's for you to find out... and I think I'm justified in saying that the answer is delightful. And do Germans really say "Bohemian villages" to mean they don't understand something? Why?! Sehr merkw�rdiger.

Webmath.com: Find the greatest common factor of some numbers: Oct 31, 2006 7:54am 1 review mathematics
http://www.webmath.com/intgcf.html; You know how it is: You're at a party, chatting about this and that and Iraq, when someone suddenly exclaims, "What the hell is the greatest common factor of 169 and 52?" Everyone is, frankly, stumped: it's a fair question, but why ask it at a party? Notwithstanding the faux pas nature of the enquiry, you're now burning with curiosity as to the answer. There must be an answer, there must! Where to find it though? This website has the answer. You may carry on with your life once more. If you can call your existence a life.

BBC News | In pictures: Wildlife Photographer of the Year, Beast of the sediment: Oct 19, 2006 4:59pm 1 review photography, bbc, award, walrus
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/06/sci_nat_wildlife_photographe...; From the article: "Goran Ehlme's photo of a walrus feeding among the seafloor sediment is the winner of the 2006 Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year (WPY) competition." From me: Yeah, fine, it's not bad. I can do better.

http://jpjeunet.online.fr/videos/amelie/amelie_ba.mov: Jun 7, 2006 12:05pm 1 review movies, trailer, amelie
http://jpjeunet.online.fr/videos/amelie/amelie_ba.mov; Doesn't the title give it away? Pure beauty, dudes, pure beauty. Please don't watch The Da Vinci Code. Please. Every time you do, a kitten dies. Dreaming of Audrey Tautou is allowed, though, and indeed is encouraged...

MoneySavingExpert.com ad-free, free to use, Consumer Revenge!: Jun 4, 2006 5:29am 3 reviews transportation
http://flightchecker.moneysavingexpert.com/; Want to find a cheap flight from the UK and back without specifying where it is you actually want to go to (possibly because you don't care where)? Then this is the only site I know of to satisfy your decadent desire. Very useful and fun, and there aren't many things in life that could claim to be both.