Engrish

I’m sure most people have seen www.engrish.com by now. It’s pretty hilarious and worth visiting now and again.

My friend Minn just posted a link to rahoi.com which is a blog written by an American in China. In this blog he documents some of the best “Engrish” I have seen.

Take this menu selection from his post May I Take Your Order entry for example…

I’m sure cowboy meat goes great with spicy cock flavored soup….

In the (i)Navy!

From various sources, including http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2149809/royal-navy-warship-gears-ipods

HMS Daring

All cabins on HMS Daring are equipped with iPod charging sockets

 

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The Royal Navy‘s latest warship now includes iPod chargers along with its high-tech arsenal of guns and rockets.

HMS Daring, a Type 45 destroyer launched by the Countess of Wessex last week, is the most high-tech naval ship in British history.

In addition to stealth technology and radar so precise it can track targets travelling at three times the speed of sound, all cabins are equipped with iPod charging sockets.

“All the ship’s cabins come with connections for charging your iPods,” confirmed a Ministry of Defence spokesman.

“They also have internet access, although for security reasons I’d assume this is a wired rather than wireless connection.”

In addition to charging up their music players crew members will also have a CD player and five-channel audio entertainment system.

“HMS Daring is the most powerful destroyer the UK has ever built,” said Secretary of State for Defence John Reid.

“The launch of this first Type 45 is a milestone in the development of the Royal Navy of the future. It is proof that the government gives our sailors the tools they need to do their job now and in the future.”

The new ship is one of six new warships planned to become operational in 2009. The others, HMS Dauntless, Diamond, Defender, Dragon and Duncan, will be launched over the next two years.

Friday the 13th

I saw this in the access logs this morning…

67.66.164.103 – – [13/Jan/2006:10:58:00 -0600] “GET / HTTP/1.1” 200 43962 “http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=obituary+for+jay+lee” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)”

The IP belongs to Atlas General Agency LLC in Grand Prairie, TX

I performed the same search and what do you know? baldheretic.com is the first result returned.

What your are about to see may shock and educate you

An optical illusion is any illusion that deceives the human visual system into perceiving something that is not present or incorrectly perceiving what is present. There are physiological illusions and cognitive illusions. A mirage is an example of a natural illusion that is an optical phenomenon, another example is the variation in the apparent size of the Moon (smaller when overhead, larger when near the horizon), this is not an optical phenomenon, but rather a cognitive or perceptual illusion.

Square A is exactly the same shade of grey as square B.

This is possibly one of the most uncanny optical illusions in existence. No matter how hard you look, you may not be able to convince yourself that the two squares are the identical shade of grey.

Don’t believe it? Try this:

Right click the large picture, save it to your hard drive, put it into your image editor, “select” square A and then pull it down onto square B. There will be an exact match in color.

This method is outlined here if you just want to see it and a flash animation is here

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