Canuck

As a follow up to my previous post, I also got perfect on the How Canadian Are You? quiz:

You are 100% Canuck!

 

You rock, you are an almighty Canadian through and through. You have proven your worthiness and have won the elite prize of living in a country as awesome as Canada. Yes I know other countries think they are better, but we let them have that cuz we know better than they do, eh?

Accent

I took the What American accent do you have? quiz. I think my (American) friends, will be amused by the result:

What American accent do you have? Your Result: North Central   "North Central" is what professional linguists call the Minnesota accent. If you saw "Fargo" you probably didn't think the characters sounded very out of the ordinary. Outsiders probably mistake you for a Canadian a lot.
The West
The Midland
Boston
The Inland North
The South
Philadelphia
The Northeast

Why Mississauga is a pluton

Why Mississauga is a pluton is a hilarious editorial about the new planet classification system using lots of analogies about TO.

Amusing Article About Soccer (in the US)

American sports are played with your hands. Using your feet is for commies. is an amusing article about soccer in the US.

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The beauty of soccer for very young people is that, to create a simulacrum of the game, it requires very little skill. No other sport can bear such incompetence. With soccer, 22 kids can be running around, most of them aimlessly, or picking weeds by the sidelines, or crying for no apparent reason, and yet the game can have the general appearance of an actual soccer match. If there are three or four co-ordinated kids among the 22 flailing bodies, there will actually be dribbling, a few legal throw-ins, and a couple times when the ball stretches the back of the net. It will be soccer, more or less.

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Funny Links

• Real-Life Recreation of The Simpsons Intro (via Funkaoshi).



• Calvin & Hobbes: Writer's Block



• $39-Dollar Experiment (via Metafilter): I was sitting around one day, skimming through a pile of bills that I needed to pay. I looked over at a new, unopened roll of stamps that I had sitting in front of me, and I thought to myself, "$39... for a roll of stamps? Geez... You can't get much for $39 nowadays. Or can you...?" ... I decided I was going to try something — I was going to take my roll of stamps and send 100 letters to 100 different companies, asking for free stuff.
  
  For example,
  
  Dear Sir or Madam:
  I have to tell you – I love your chicken. It's the best fried chicken around. The breading... I could eat a bucket full of just the breading. Breading and skin. That's the ticket! Anyway, your chicken is outstanding. If I weren't afraid of being arrested, I'd go to KFC to lick other people's fingers – that's how much I like your chicken. Please send me a coupon for a free chicken, so that I do not have to resort to licking strangers' fingers. Thank you in advance,
  Tom Locke, fried chicken enthusiast

Programming Languages

Programming languages and their relationship styles (via Funkaoshi) .

Assorted Links

superfluous is a cool word.

Lazy Monday - A parody of the SNL Lazy Sunday (i.e. Narnia) rap video that's worth watching.

Segway creator unveils his next act - Providing electricity and clean water to villages in the Developing World. That's a cool idea.

Calculating Dogs - Apparently dogs can perform Calculus.

Politics-Oriented Software Development

Documentation is an essential tool in the twin goals of ass-covering and of managing management...strike the correct tone of opaque vagueness and unshakeable authority.

A kind of funny (but cynical) article about Politics-Oriented Software Development.