Here’s a fun site. Did you ever play “telephone” as a child? Check out this clever website: Lost in Translation. It takes advantage of the successive use of good quality Internet language translators. It will convert an English passage into a different language and back to English, five times in succession. …
Maybe I’m the last to find out, but I just today stumbled upon an incredibly . . . well . . . provocative . . . wiki site: uncyclopedia.org. How I got there I can’t actually recall. Perhaps I stepped into a space-time warp. The article I first encountered was an official-looking article about that well-known scientific theory, “malevolent design.” I hadn’t before encountered this theory, so I eagerly read the article:
Malevolent Design (or M.D.) is one of the leading theories in micro-miracology, the division of Creation Science which deals with the origin and development of microorganisms, including bacteria, viruses and fungal parasites. Beginning with the fundamental insight of Creation Science that the complexity of life is such that it must be the result of divine intervention, and employing the micro-miracological observation that pathogenic organisms change rapidly in order to defeat or circumvent the human immune system, the theory of Malevolent Design posits that the adaptation of human pathogens is the result of malevolent actions taken by an intelligent designer. Put simply, the theory explains that humans continue to become sick because God hates us.
Quite interesting, I thought. I’ll have to tell mention this to grumpypilgrim, who thinks he is well read. But why stop there? I moved on to another topic that theory grumpy often does discuss, Intelligent Design:
…Intelligent Design, or as the French would say, L’Intelligent Design, is the absolutely true and totally scientific theory that the Universe is so gee-whizzy fantastic and
How red is the country, and how blue are we? Well, even in 2000, I wanted to see the colors of the states mixed, so we could see how purple each one was. Go here to see a variety of ways of looking at the red-blue situation from the 2004…
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How would you like to quickly access any of 547 newspaper front pages from 46 countries? You can do it right here, at a website called Today's Front Pages. Quite impressive! Click on "Read Today's Recap" for a short recap of some of the headlines.