"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo." According to William Rappaport, a linguistics professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo (naturally), the word "Buffalo," eight times in a row -- is a legitimate, grammatically valid sentence. Really. Click the above link to go to the page explaining the whole history of how he discovered the sentence. Basically, it works like this: "Buffalo," with a capital "B," refers to the area of Buffalo, New York. "buffalo," with a lower-case "b," can be a noun meaning "bison" or a verb meaning "intimidate" But, as Rappaport and his colleagues kept working on the sentence, they realized that if the style of intimidation called "buffalo" is specific to Buffalo, NY, then it can be referred to as "Buffalo buffalo". Think of it this way - if you dance the waltz that was created for the song The Tennessee Waltz, then you are "Tennessee Waltzing". If you intimidate someone the same way they do in … [Read more...]
Best Online April Fool’s Pranks 2011
I never thought April Fool's Day was all that fun until websites started coming up with pranks just for the day. Here are the ones I've found so far today! 1. Comic Sans for Everyone - "Google Chrome announced a new extension designed to "improve user experience". Rigorous testing revealed that one font consistently outperformed all others when it comes to user satisfaction, level of engagement, understanding web content, productivity, click-through rates and conversion rates: Comic Sans." Even though I knew it was a prank, I assumed that the Install button wouldn't actually do anything. I was wrong. After clicking the button to install the extension and refreshing the page, my computer's default font permanently changed to Comic Sans. Check out this screenshot of my About page- ha! 2. Google Motion for Gmail - "Gmail Motion uses your computer's built-in webcam and Google's patented spatial tracking technology to detect your movements and translate them into meaningful … [Read more...]
Funny YouTube Video – Ultimate Caption Fail
This is the funniest YouTube video I have seen in a long time! Two guys made a video of themselves having a short conversation, then turned on the closed captioning and used that as the dialogue for another conversation. It's hilarious! Try watching it on YouTube with the closed captioning on so you get a whole new version of the dialogue! … [Read more...]
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