Humor
Another Thing
I always heard “another thing coming” until sometime in, say, the last twenty years. I took “another think coming” to be a variant people employed to be funny. Since I am not much younger than Rand Simberg, it may have once been a regionalism to use think rather than thing, so we learned it differently when young. It’s unfortunate that noting the difference was lent emotional attachment by deploying it as Sarah-bashing, thinking she’s stupid for using the more common version of a phrase.
On the plus side, from the comment thread I learned that “another think coming” was the original, largely replaced by morphing of the language.
Ten Writing Tips
These are good writing tips. Psychology and reasoning is included with them. The passive voice was frowned upon by my teachers. Mileage apparently varies somehwhat in that regard.
Reardon Metal
Or something like it, has been created by the State Science Institute Pohang University of Science and Technology in South Korea.
Books, Humor, Science, Technology, World
Monster Spray
Dee Vivian is pharmacy tech of the year for helping a dad bring home monster spray for his daughter.
Nice Work
Hillaryclinton.net used to redirect to Carly Fiorina’s page, but it has been cleverly changed.
Spoofing the Annual People Born In
People born in 2014 won’t get to experience, for instance, “…that insane moment in 1066…” or the attack on Pearl Harbor. There are a few of the more traditional one in there, of course, but they waste no time making their point.
124 States
That’s even more than Obama’s 57 states! This is an amusing and intriguing hypothetical map experiement showing what the US could look like had all secession movements succeeded. Clearly there is more to it than that, to make Cuba a state, for instance. And we gained some from the present Mexico, but Canada not so much.